Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Me thinks a deal between VIrgin and sky for the purchase of the virgin media channels is a done deal anyone noticed that cougar town will be on the Sky 3 preview.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

trus tme it aint

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Cougar town is on the sky player and according to a mate was on before it started on living.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Source ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Take a look at the last quarter results neil berkett said there was now no need to sell the channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

True but that could just mean were not selling them on the cheap .

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

there no plans to sell them at all unless sky offer a pretty good price so yoru kinda right, say there worth 200M sky would probally need ot offer 350M for virign to say yeah lets get rid of them because ther emaking money now and with potential of 2-3 more hd channesl form the virgn brand maybe total 6 or 7 then ther eno need to

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Sky and VM did a deal a few months ago for Bravo and Living to appear on Sky Player. What VM get in return, if anything beyond monetary value has yet to be disclosed.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Has anyone noticed that it has all gone quiet on the Sky and VM front.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

This quietness is going one of two ways, either something big is going on or Sky are concentrating on the OFCOM ruling.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

sky aint to bothered as long as tories get in so everyone dnt vote tories who to voted god knows all crap this time round a hung parlment is quite likely

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I sent a letter to ITV reference Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and here's the reply.


Thank you for your email regarding HIGH DEFINITION.

Unfortunately ITV HD viewers do not have access to Dolby Digital 5.1 audio at the moment. However, ITV hope to be able to offer it ‘later this year’.

May I take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time to contact us here at ITV.

Regards

ITV VIEWER SERVICES - PR

So its "Coming Soon" so I had to post it here :D

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yeah we only get 192kbps .MP2 2.0 audio, it should atleast be 384kbps .AC3 2.0 :(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Coming Soon - here is what I know, some will be revealed within the First Quarter results/future plan.

Virgin Media TV - no plans for the sale of VM TV or its 50% ownership of UKTV, in fact VM are looking to grow with HD conversion of some of these channels.

Living HD/Sky1 HD - DONE DEAL - a pure swap deal fully expecting some kind of press release in the coming weeks.

Sky HD Pack - VM&Sky have already started to broker a deal for these channels - note these are for Sky's 100% HD channels - Not Joint Ownership HD channels i.e. MGM, Bio etc etc and ?s around the Five HD deal.

Don’t read too much into if the Tories win - The fact that Ofcom has issued the report means neither Labour or the Tories can overturn this ruling, the ruling can only be overturned if Sky take this through the European courts and win.

If the Tories do win and strip all power from Ofcom then that does not mean they can overturn all previous Ofcom rulings made.

The Sky HD pack is expected before the summer

I'm not going to get involved in replying to each post quoting the above - the fact I have a very close and trusted friend within VM.

I will post more if and when I get any other information.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Thanks for the info Big Red. Very interesting indeed, I'd very much like to see this happen :-)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Now getting pop up msg re new cards in the NG11 area of Nottingham. I cant wait to see all the defunct dodgy boxes appearing on ebay from Nottingham sellers. :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Ooooo I'm dribbling on the floor. :hyper:

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Wow who is your trusted friend Neil Berkett :):D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

The good news keeps on coming.
Well done big red.
Well done virgin as well of course.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

When will this press release get released from the releasion of all releases of the virgin media press releases?? :D:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

This presumably will come into play after the WHOLE network is upgraded.

July probably? In time for the new football season.

Let the price wars commence:clap:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Certainly great news if true;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

about the time i said it would happen ;) big red might want to check the deal for sky there a bit miore ot it sometihng to do with launch of virign 1 hd, living it hd and possike bravo hd with challange and bravo 2 hd maybe next year

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I know probably can't say much or know all the details, but is that just Sky One or all the Sky Basics?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Great News Big Red, Thanks for sharing this (regardless of what may or may not happen).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

This sounds fab....my bank balance won think so after ive signed up to Sky Sports and Movies HD though :p

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Hopefully with the Ofcom ruling (for Sky Sports anyway) they'll be able to offer something like: pay the same as you do now but get HD; or pay the new lower price for SD only. It would be a good way for Sky to shore up their wholesale margin and good for us too.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Is this source reliable ? Cant see sky caving in like this. Hope it is correct would love sky one hd.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Big Red (AFAIK) is usually pretty spot on...+ AndrewCrawford seems to be backing him up and Andy is very reliable.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Have you tried TENA pads? :blush:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Errrr...eeeew!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Lets just change the subject...:p::shocked:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Whats amazed me with Virgin is no advertising about watching the world cup in hd. Just the usual 2 for 20 leaflets. Virgin really need to market there services better.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

BIG RED or Andrew..... do we think that the "Red Button" facilities are included in the HD negotiations?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Telewest had a great marketing team, VM were supposed to have kept them and used their expertise.

Remember Elle West? :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0r0iJILcB8

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Everytime I watched Most Haunted on LIVING that was its sponsor - I saw it every 10 minutes :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Slightly off topic DF do you know why picturebox isnt listing all this weeks new films ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

There must be a fault... someone said it was only showing "Mall rats"? I've been off a few days, so I don't know if it's raised... I'll check later tonight :)

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News to me - Thanks for info anyway.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Oh no and there i was getting excited... MB you MUST do some ferreting with your contacts to see if you can confirm ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Not true - there was a large advert in yesterday's Observer about watching the world Cup in HD on VM and guaranteeing installation before World Cup.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

And an advert in the Metro this morning

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Wow some coming soon news before it's actually been confirmed/announced by Virgin, this topic is finally living upto it's title.....thank you

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Ben, you wanna comment on Big Reds post? ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Only to say I wouldn't believe anything that is written until it is announced

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

If the above about sky hd channels is true, surely it's sensible for existing sky customers to switch to virgin media... with all of sky hd channels anyway at a price, plus other hd channels for free...as VM Do not currently charge for hd.

this may change as vm get more hd channels, but it's a thought...

dont sky currently charge for all their hd channels, minus the freeview ones

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I believe they charge an extra ten pounds a month for HD, bu customers do get a bigger box than normal Sky+. There many advantages to VM over Sky, but it is not always easy for Sky customers to see. Sky also have some advantages over VM, so I suppose, for many, it depends on what ones priorities are.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Good enough for me!

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Oh and there's no way VM won't charge for HD Sky Premium content. They would surly loose too much money. It might only be a nominla amount for those of us on XXXXXL or whatever they call it these days but it will be there.

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P.s I likee that you said "until" and not "if" ....not that i'm reading lots into your answer of course lol ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Not knocking Big reds info but i'll believe it when I see it. I seem to remember him saying sometime ago that we were getting Sky One HD .

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

This week list update is now online - see post one.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

This was raised on the 17th by the National Outage Desk, it's with a external support group - reference is 1242039.

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I'd say the same too.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Some info here too:

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ice/td-p/46781

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I've been following the VM HD developments across these forums for many months and Big Reds 'predictions' (amongst a couple of others only) have all been pretty nailed on.

Iro Sky 1 HD on VM, I dont believe a particular 'go-live' date by forum contributors has ever been mooted? 'Coming soon' from somone who I consider has proved to a reliable source of info is good enough for me.

I think the VM HD service is FINALLY gaining the momentum we've all been (too) patiently waiting for.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

any news on sky news hd

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

get real!!!!! why do you want biased news in hd its bad enough in sd its not worth the space

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Ok here the date it is top secert ;) it when it is annouced ;) i say to expect more annoucements near end of june ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I'm guessing he wants it because it has "HD" in the title :rolleyes:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Yeah, Sky News HD would be as pointless as QVC HD or Gems TV HD

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I am plzed that more HD Channels are on the way. But, lets hope that the programming is pretty decent, after all who the heck wants to watch boring rubbish in HD?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Thank you! I have been saying that for ages on here and so far all we have is boring rubbish in hd haha

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I don't see an issue with Sky News HD, okay so far of war zones will still have youtube quality, but most national news, entertainment and sport news will be in nice high quality. Also finally all the onscreen text will be in nice crisp HD.

I was watching District 9 the other day on Blu ray and that the news graphics they used were fantastic qulaity and thought wouldn't that look good on a actual news channel.

And when they show movie trailers we could actually get them in HD.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

also the 2nd prime minister debate is on sky news hd on thurs, would be nice to watch it in HD like i watched the 1st in hd on itv1hd.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

The third one is on BBC so it's BBCHD ahoy for that one

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

:erm: there's a lot to be said for standard definition. GB in HD:no::sick:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

The first debate was on ITV HD wasn't it?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

gordon brown in HD definately was painful admittedly! But i got to see Nick Cleg's shiny yellow tie though in all it's glory!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Ah you mean SKY "Highly Dubious" News...:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

The official, de facto motto of this thread is, allegedly:-

"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." --Otto von Bismarck

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MrGiles2 / Hiroki, everyone knows that even 'boring rubbish' is better in HD! ;)

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I've taken to watching EuroNews on 620 recently as the 'local' news channels have become very parochial, repeatedly covering MPs expenses, education issues and now the election campaigns, leaving little time for anything else.

There have been some very serious events in the UK and worldwide which, on the UK channels, were either not covered at all, made it to the news very late or only made it into one or two bulletins before dropping off the list. Some items were shown on the 'ticker' on BBC News but were never read out.

The initial eruption of the volcano in Iceland and several other serious issues in Europe and elsewhere in the world, failed to make the BBC News for a day or two and, in some cases, not at all. I haven't been checking Sky of late, mostly because I don't like the format anymore.

Admittedly EuroNews has a quirky format but good content with additional little informative pieces. It makes me feel like I'm on holiday! :tu:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Can anyone from the Hackney or Haringey area tell me if BBC Radio London is still broadcasting on Channel 930 or has Virgin move it to channel 937?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

In the name of Terry Tibbs, we need "bid-dot-drop-price-dot-uk" HD ;)

If you're thinking what the hell I'm going on about, it's off Facejacker on Channel 4 :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Still broadcasting on Channel 930. I'm in the Haringey area.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Looks like STV HD will be Cable and Freeview only, hopefully in time for the World Cup!

http://www.stvplc.tv/content/mediaas...2010_FINAL.pdf


I wonder if we'll get it in England? :mad:

:D ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

just need utv hd exculsive to freeview and cable and that one up on sky :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

930 BBC London in Haringey is now showing a message saying "Sorry this channel isn't available at the moment, please wait, or try again later".

Is this the start of the changeover? No other changes yet and no message on the live events page yet.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Could be very intresting ? Sky's Ofcom appeal to be heard Friday

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...rd-friday.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I am in Camden, London (covered by Haringey) and my BBC London Radio on 930 is showing the same message as above

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I dunno....i get the feeling with stuff i read that VM and Sky are probably on the brink (or in the middle) of doing an HD deal which will benifit both companies...VM have probably offered just above the Ofcom price for the channels (which will inlude ALL Sports HD not just 1 2 and movies) and we'll see Living etc HD on Sky and Sky HD on VM.... just my feeling i have nothing to back this up with LOL.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Thanks for info.

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Oops thought that was just my set as I'm having a few problems with channels at the moment!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

For Viewers using the Haringey Headend:

I have ask one of my insiders about the loss of BBC Radio London on Channel 930 - I hope to have more information soon but it look like an local Problem.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Looks like a local fault with your headend, I'm just looking in to this now.

EDIT: We are now investigating this under ref 1245415.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I havent seen anything confirming HD yet, but when driving through my town earlier (nuneaton), there was a massive billboard saying about the election debate on sky news. It was saying it will be on sky news HD, which was coming soon.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Only to Sky customers (as usual)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

STV has world cup HD :)

Ok, there is an Easter Bunny

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

More info on the STV HD story

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...-cup.html.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Great news on STV HD. Really looking forward to the footy now!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

It's listed on 930 but tuning to it shows a message "Sorry, this channel isn't available right now. Please wait, or try later" Nothing on 937

That's in the Camden area off Haringey

Paul

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Good news... UTV just need to get their act together for our Northern Irish friends :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

The following is from an Virgin insider:

Just over 50 days to launch an HD Channel?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Is this back on? Engineer has checked the headend and now has this working.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

If the only material they will broadcast at first is the WC, then ITV will supply the stream to them and if they don't have HD play out facilities (which they probably don't) they can get a thrid party to do that. Agreed it is not a lot of time but plenty of ways for them to get it up an running quickly.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Found this on the Freeview website regarding STV HD

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5893/digiu.jpg

Hope everyone can view this picture okay. Nothing for sure but possibly 15th June launch? Looks like roughly 50 days until launch could be correct. Would be great to see it on Virgin then also

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Doesn't that say 2011?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Yeah that is 2011. Just noticed the Freeview HD rollout won't be completed in my area until June 2011. That's probably why none of the channels will be available until then. Wish I'd spotted that! The rollout is complete in Glasgow. I'll go back just now and see what HD channels you can expect to receive in the Glasgow post code area, and when STV HD is due.

Okay so I've just checked the Glasgow area which is showing STV HD available March 2010, which is clearly not the case. Sorry about any confussion. I'll take info from Freeview with a pinch of salt from now on.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Will we ever see Sky Sports HD and/or Sky Movies HD on Virgin? With the upcoming 3DTV from Sky, switching is very tempting at the moment. A friend just got the deal of all deals from Sky too.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

what's the deal of all deals from sky?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Yes back on now :tu:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I just hope we can get STV HD in London, as there are plenty of Scots living in London,.