Cable Forum - Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Virgin plans Yorkshire smart card swap

Virgin Media has confirmed plans to start sending out new smart cards to its cable TV customers in parts of Yorkshire.

Letters have been sent out today by the firm to Virgin Media households in Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate and York informing them about planned upgrades to their service.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...swap.html.html

ps good news 4 me ;):)

Nook29

26-10-2009 18:31

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Good news, should arrive this week then.

TMLeafs

26-10-2009 20:38

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

ESPN America could be going widescreen on the 28th more here with screens of testing http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1149054

Media Boy UK

27-10-2009 12:00

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Quote:

Originally Posted by braysoj1 (Post 34897250)

any news on the fa cup rights

FA Cup update:
http://setantasportsuknews.blogspot....fa-cup-to.html

Felim_Doyle

27-10-2009 12:12

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Last week, Virgin launched a short instructional video about how to change smart cards, which led to rumours of a national card swap. However, the exchange is purely localised to parts of Yorkshire.

:rolleyes: So are we to deduce from this that people in the Yorkshire franchise areas are the biggest threat in terms of dodgy boxes and theft of services? :rolleyes:

I think they call that 'profiling' in the justice system.

TheDon

27-10-2009 13:29

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle (Post 34898753)

It's not called profiling, it's called a trial area. It's not going to be limited to that area, it's going to be rolled out nationwide on an area by area basis.

Media Boy UK

27-10-2009 14:34

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Setanta Sports UK Fall out: BREAKING NEWS: ITV and FA.com to broadcast first two round of FA Cup.

http://setantasportsuknews.blogspot....cup-to-be.html

Felim_Doyle

27-10-2009 14:53

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by TheDon (Post 34898778)

It's not called profiling, it's called a trial area. It's not going to be limited to that area, it's going to be rolled out nationwide on an area by area basis.

Yes, agreed.

I did quote my post with :rolleyes: 'sarcasm' :rolleyes: marks ;).

My point was that the quote from the DS news item was misleading, suggesting that there was no nationwide rollout and that it was local to the Yorkshire area for no apparent specific reason (:rolleyes: other than Yorkshire people can't be trusted but surely that's the Welsh as in "welsh on a deal"? :rolleyes:).

Presumably the rollout will be on a head-end by head-end basis as each is upgraded to support NagraVision 3 (with NV1 backwards compatibility). One could further speculate that the rollout might be subdivided by franchise (ex-C&W, ex-NTL, ex-TW) and might also coincide with analogue switch-off at those head-ends but, then again, all of these things could be totally independent of each other.

I'm having trouble locating a historical schedule of the VM switch-off, listng areas already switched off and those yet to be done. Does anyone know where I can find one?

Media Boy UK

27-10-2009 15:00

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle (Post 34898829)

Try this:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/10...-schedule.html

Felim_Doyle

27-10-2009 15:07

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 34898227)

Two channels missing on Virgin Media's ''Total Channels''.

http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com...in-medias.html