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totally agree I was close to going to sky once on half price deal family didn't want to so glad there didn't would have lost to much going to sky just to gain a few more channels not worth it IMO

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We know each other so well! I was hoping that, too!

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Can't argue with that. I was with Telewest / Virgin Media for about 8 years. I really enjoyed TiVo. This time last year I had no inkling that I would be moving to SKY. However my mind changed after 3 price increases in a year, and no significant new channels being added. As soon as I learned I could be getting more but paying less for me personally it was an easy decision. Oh and I'd not long purchased a 3D TV so SKY 3D become a must in my household.

Virgin in the past 8 months however have been making massive strides. Not too many of the significant HD channels missing at all.

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How about this:

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...3/td-p/1940624

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Couch couch, no i should hope so. Only one Mr Stokes and i am him. Why do you say that thou Dave? Pants eating can be fun :D:D

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where you been hiding :LOL:

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I am here. Some of us YOUNG people have a job to do and sadly however much i would like too cant spend all day on forum :D:D :(:(

Guess whos back?
Back again.
Stokesys BAck.
Dont tell Den
:D:D:D:D:D:D

Better than bacon :):)

No it wont :D

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Talking to my insiders about whats coming soon to VM TV

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your nose is growing mr stokes

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Its the same size as it was this morning, oops that was something else. Just checked and my nose is also same size. Im not that wooden nose guy thing :D:D

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Wiggles pinky towards Stokesy......:D:D

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now now behave you dark side pest :LOL: remember it a family forum ;)

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eerrrrmmmm im no pest i am the lord masters servant :)

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yes your the masters pesty servant mate :D but colin close second :LOL:

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Fair do's :D:D

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Downgraded to M+ guys, so my channel selection is definitely limited now!
However, where money is to be saved, money is to be saved!

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1) you linked to a Daily Mail article from 2010. The BBC are launching both channels in HD, so I doubt they have plans to scrap them.

2) yes the sale of Virgin Media Television, not there stake in UKTV, you know the UKTV that runs Watch/Dave/Alibi, joint owned by the BBC and Scripps

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That shouldn't have taken very long...

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As much as I would like to see Radio Caroline join VM, I can't see an organisation funded by voluntary donations from its listeners and support group having the financial stability to make this happen.

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You know i think the talks are quite complex, Firstly virgin probably want it on the xltv pack but i,m sure BT want to be able to say its only free as a BT broadband customer (I think this is a bit of a loss leader for them to get new broadband customers.). Secondly multiroom I,m sure BT dont want the only place you can get it on multiroom is Virgin. Lastly Virginmedia anywhere, i,m sure Virgin want this on their service at least on the pc like sky sports if not on the IPAD but BT have a thing for their customers for 2 devices and pretty sure its not on sky anytime. Quite alot to talk about and BT wanting to keep their USP and defo not gave Virgin a USP on their product, plus the old cost thing lol.

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Bit of topic but i was offered sky sports half price for 3 months to stay with Virgin but I only have sports 1 and 2 should i not get 3 and 4 as well?

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Liberty chief sets out Virgin growth plans.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...059033.article

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I see Sky have trademarked the name Sky Bravo and haven't ruled out a relaunch of the old Bravo channel. If VM do manage to get SA does anyone think that Sky will then launch Sky Bravo and have that as its new exclusive channel?

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...contentID=2319

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wouldn't surprise me if they did, and start switching programs across!.

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Cant rule it out but any relation to the original Bravo will be in all but name methinks

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Just heard from the CEO office - they hope to have something in place by the end of August - they are working hard to bring BT Sports to VM.

My feedback was :
Communication is all wrong - just look at the facebook, you're not controlling expectation in the slightest, your front line staff must be fed up to the back teeth with it.

Sky Atlantic (Confirmed as not in discussions) - I said I value this channel more than BT sports but being on XL if you do not beef up the offering, I will reduce my spending with VM and aquire the content I want from elsewhere - this is is 100% a failing laid squarely at VM's door. Get your customers what they want or they will take their money and spend it elsewhere.

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how is it VM fault sky want over the top price for SA and BT don't want to wholesale bt sports is it skys fault bt wont wholesale to them either ? and would you pay over top price for one channel bet you complain if they did then put prices up just for one channel SA aint coming to VM sooner people see that the better and the vast majority of sky customers don't watch SA most over hyped channel ever

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If they're not up to the job, they need to get out of the market. I've explained I am likely to scale down what I pay VM if they don't get to grips with content demands - Tivo is all about content, they're not doing justice to their own platform!

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They have had months to sort BT Sports out but it seems we are no nearer to getting then we were a few months ago and although l have no intention of moving there are many others who might just say that's it and l am off to somewhere where l can get these missing channels and one cannot blame them at all because after a while the same old excuses wear very thin.

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Indeed they have had two years to add many must have apps to the TiVo experience and here we are still waiting two years down the road with less apps then we had a year ago.

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Den it looking more and more like BT want to withhold BT sports nothing we can do about it sadly but cant blame VM for BT wanting to withhold it can you but yes we can point out the things VM is at fault for as we will contintue to do so

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Anyone care to post that article here?

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Did I miss something somewhere - why do you keep saying BT are withholding BT Sport?
http://www.sky.com/shop/livesport/bestprice/

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they only on sky because sky customers pay directly to BT they refusing to wholesale it so it less likely VM will get it and they totally refused to wholesale it to sky too

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Press the link on here and it should show more of the article.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...ac.jNc2cWiX8qY

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hehehe:o::D

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Liberty chief John Malone sets out Virgin growth plans

8 August, 2013 | By Peter White




Liberty Global founder John Malone has addressed rank-and file Virgin Media employees and Chellomedia content staff at a town hall meeting in London.


Malone, who rarely travels by plane, made a trip from the US to rally staff at the meeting and cement plans to grow the cable business over the next few years.

During an open question-and-answer session at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Malone talked about his history in the UK – he was previously a shareholder in Telewest – and how the market has changed over the past 10 years.

Malone also talked through growth opportunities, particularly around innovations for Virgin Media’s television service and quad-play offer.

Liberty Global acquired Virgin Media in February for £10.2bn and Malone reiterated that the deal was designed to quickly add significant scale in Europe’s largest and most dynamic media market.

The buyout means that Liberty Global has more than 25 million customers in 14 countries.

Malone hired former BSkyB executive Tom Mockeridge as chief executive in May, after former chief exec Neil Berkett decided to step down following the sale.

In addition to Mockeridge’s appointment, there have been a number of changes to the Virgin Media management in the past few months, including the departure of Cindy Rose, executive director of digital entertainment, and the promotion of long-term Liberty Global European programming executive Stephane David to VM executive director of content.

This week, Liberty Global restructured the management of its Central and Eastern European division to drive further international co-operation following the Virgin Media deal.

The meeting was attended by more than 200 employees of Virgin Media, Liberty Global and its content arm Chellomedia, which operates dozens of channels worldwide and was recently put up for sale.


there you go Clint

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Thanks Den and Dave.

That all sounds very promissing. Didn't know Cindy Rose has left/sacked. Wunder if she took the hundreds of TiVo apps with her! :D

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:Dshe went very quiet after that one :D

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Cindy gone, shame I don't think she done that bad of a job, how many HD channels do we have again compared to BT!

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I do not feel too optimistic about this. As much I try and stay positive this does not inspire me greatly. Just exactly what can the new "innovations" be? A new STB? (if it is better than TIVO, great, but I don't want to lose TIVO just for 6 tuners and more space.) new mobile phones? more app's? faster BB?
Whilst I am pretty happy with the content we receive (a couple of extra HD variants would not go amiss Nat Geo Wild HD and possibly History and Universal HD), I know many others are not. No mention was made of content (not that there is too much left to get), or improved communication for that matter, just growth through "innovation".
The only positive I take (and will continue to take) from this is the fact some of the liberty global team are joining VM. This coupled with possible money from the sale of Chellomedia, could mean that Liberty Global can possibly give VM the help and financial support and business nous it needs to finally reach it's potential on the TV/app side of the business, which is where the best chance of growth lies, surely?

With regards to communication, it would not take much to improve in the short term. Whilst we know there is nothing happening with SA/BT Sports, it only takes a post a day on Twitter and Facebook to say "no news on BT Sport today, sorry" to pacify many, many customers.

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True, but the app statement did turn out to be a shocker of a statement. I am sure she believed it would happen when she said it, but alas, something went wrong that she simply could not rectify.

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Really? I am relying on press reports and what for example Broadcast Now are reporting, which I think are far more reliable than opinions expressed on here about insiders and 'I was just speaking to customer services today....'.

The examples you give above just reflect the current situation and the fact that negotiations are not completed. You're putting 2 and 2 together and making 22.

Mark my words. It's coming.

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I know, the point I was making was that the BBC had been considering scrapping BBC 4. The current position on that is just that their budget has been reduced and they are not producing any more BBC 4 dramas.

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I posted on the 1st July 2013:

"I think SKY will make SKY Atlantic available to Virgin in the very near future. However I believe there will be a sting in the tail. I can't confirm how I know but there is a very good chance that prior to the end of 2013 SKY will be launching a brand new entertainment channel exclusive to the SKY platform.

I know that without a source this just looks like me, as a SKY customer trying, to wind people up. If people don't believe me that's understandable."

SKY Bravo is the channel I was talking about! At the time however the name had not been decided but SKY Bravo was the front runner. I would however suggest that, to the best of my knowledge, it's not going to simply be the rebirth of Bravo. The programming will be of a better quality than the original Bravo.

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It would have to be if it was to be Sky's new unique selling point!

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:D

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Come on Chad making prediction's and speculating is half the fun and if SA arrives in due course then l will certainly be a happy chappy and more then that my partner will be a happy lady and keep her quieter in the process.:)

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come on chad do you really think sky will lower cost of SA to VM no chance they have never ever lowered cost of a channel to another platform SA aint coming anytime soon as I said before only thing SA will go on is now tv not VM

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The chances are though if sky launch Sky Bravo they will want it to be "exclusive" on Sky, which means it won't be on Now TV, which in turn would make no sense for Sky to launch Now TV entertainment without having the full channel set.

Also I believe Now TV Entertainment would require a TV License as the channels are not premium services.

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you mean like sky sports yes at a rip off price of £9.99 a day

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No that is a premium service, if you read the sentence I say "Now TV ENTERTAINMENT would require a TV License"

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Anyone else got one of those stupid books from Virgin in the post? The book of oooh! it is called. Totally glosses over Atlantic and loss of ESPN/signing of BT Sports.

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Yes l got it last week Mark.:td:

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why would they mention channels they not got that would make no sense would it

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What I meant was they totally gloss over the negatives that customers have and put their own positive spin on things. I wonder if Alistair Campbell helped to write the book?

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all companies do that not just VM to be fair

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But you can only gloss over the negatives to a certain point as customers are not stupid nowadays.

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I think a PR company that put in there "OOOH, Your losing some channels!" wouldn't be in business for very long.

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As far as I'm aware, Sky do not allow channels onto the EPG during their testing period. Only once the channel is ready is it allowed onto the EPG so as to maintain it's integrity.

I can't see Radio Caroline being able to afford the fees to go onto cable in Ireland, so I'm wondering if they have been given a reduction or had the fees waived altogether.

If so, we may well find Radio Caroline on VM now Liberty Global are in charge.

Unlike Sky, there is no requirement for VM EPG charges to be fair, reasonable and non discriminatory.

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BT Sports was on the EPG for around 2 months before it launched.

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I've been referring to this magazine in my past few posts. My point is (and I repeat, I really want BT Sports on VM) this is clearly an attempt by VM to gloss over the loss of the extra EPL games. It must have cost them a small fortune. Why waste that money if good news was just around the corner?

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Because it was advertising to customers to add BT Sport and how to do it? It wasn't in testing.

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Also someone can probably explain, how come in BT Sports adverts they say that Sky Sports have less games this year and then Sky Sports say they have more games than ever before in theirs? Surely that contradicts itself.

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SKY are are correct to say they have more premier league games they have one extra game this year it's 116. This is from last year's first fixtures release.

This year is the start of the new premier league packages which has an extra package and the old packages had the amount of games changed.

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BT isn't much.

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indeed. it is perfectly possible for sky to have more game(s), but still have less % of the total number of televised matches. "less matches" in this context. lots of clever use of wording flying round in the BT/Sky battle. and lots of incorrect cringe-worthy wording from Virgin ie "get more from sport with Virgin". Having said that, if they get BT Sport it'll be miles better than having BT Sport on sky due to how Virgin's multiroom works.

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The entertainment channels are launching on Now TV that's definate they could quite easily add all the current Sky channels and add any exclusive channels at a later date , I can't really see thats an issue.
Which they'd have to apply for and get , again I can't see its a problem.

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Perhaps the funding was arranged for a fixed period, as with the fees for appearing on the Sky EPG. Although Radio Caroline is still available FTA on satellite it isn't in the Freesat EPG and is no longer available on the Sky EPG.

The carriage arrangements on cable in Ireland could have been a legacy arrangement, considering that Ronan O'Rahilly, the founder of Radio Caroline is actually Irish. Speculation, I know, but things are often done in less conventional ways in Ireland.

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Yes, barker channels are different to test transmissions. Sky are very strict about removing channels from the EPG that have problems eg only showing a testcard.

Having said that, when I was with Sky many years ago, I was shocked at the unwatchable quality of some of the african channels. The picture was all over the place!

I would have thought that all platforms would have had a minimum broadcast quality threshold.

You could well be right :)

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The consumer would need a TV License, not Now TV needing one.

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Speculation time:

Terms and Conditions on this page here - http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...ls/sports.html
OUTDATED TERMS AND CONDITIONS
UPDATED TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The updated version seems to have removed Sky Sports News HD from being "not included'. Sky Sports F1 HD does not seem to be listed in either...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 4.
 

You need a TV licence to watch Now TV in its current form.

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Sky F1 in HD could get me excited, would justify subscribing to Sky Sports for me,

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Where are the new Ts & Cs showing? I'm still only seeing the same old ones...
http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...ls/sports.html

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:( I just clicked on the link and both bits you quote are still there, with SSN still in the Premium Channels as "not included"

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I added some channels to my list early this year to stop posters from asking why is 'Channel Z' on UPC Ireland and not on Virgin Media. Plus just to tell everyone what not broadcasting in all areas yet.

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Well they're both wrong anyway cause there is no Sky Movies Classic

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TCM +1 not set to launch on Tuesday on Virgin Media.

It look like Virgin Media are set to miss out on an other channel from Tuesday.

TCM2 will close at 4am on Monday night on Virgin Channel 417 - but take note the EPG on TCM2 is not right from Tuesday.

TCM +1 will launch on Astra (Sky) but not on Virgin Media on Tuesday.

Well done Virgin - so far this month (From Tuesday) we have loss FIVE Channels but no new channels.

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One word and that is Pathetic.:(:td:

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And Virgin is so fond of +1 channels. What a shame.;)

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Yeah given a choice whilst its not ideal to lose channels the +1 ones are manageable loses (albeit still a loss)

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Invalid EPG data doesn't necessarily mean it's closing though surely? For the data that is available on Tuesday on TiVo a lot of the films are what is on TCM but an hour later too. I think it'll just be a straightforward rebrand unless you know something else from someone else?

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Thanks for the info,however not particularly bothered about this channel.But not happy to the fact 5 channels lost!!! Total disgrace vm

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It not an rebrand.

On the old Sky box I have seen the following:

TCM2 - No longer broadcasting from 4am on Monday.
TCM +1 - testing on Sky right now on an new broadcasting stream 24 hours.

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they mite add tcm2s stream and put it to Cartoonito so that's 24hours

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And for Media Boy to say something like he has, thier must be something wrong. I have made a formal complaint to Liberty Global over the manner that VM treat there customers.

Virgin Media treat there customers with contempt, and l do not mince my words, yes l could move back to Sky, but l am paying hard earned money to VM, and the fact that they do not gives us channels that we are crying out for is a disgrace.

I am counting down the days to 17th August. VM are a shambles, and told Liberty Global that they will have to make a big shake up of VM to keep its customers. They do not communicate with customer.

They had a big meeting in London - l hope the big boss told what he expects, He will ose customers if there is no shake up.

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I'm assuming that TCM will still be on VM?

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Yes - with TCM HD.

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Cheers MB, as always you are a fountain of knowledge:)
I have the HD package, but others may not. Do you know if we lose TCM SD as well, or will it be available in SD and HD?

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and which channels are these Arthur if you mean SA sky will not stop charging over the top asking price and the other missing channels sky are with holding so how is that's VM fault they cant add what is getting withheld as for BT sport BT wont wholesale it that's why it not on VM yet as pointing out before BT will not wholesale to sky either so again how is that fault of VM unless bt change there mind and wholesale it not be on VM sky only got it because sky customers pay BT direct that can not work on VM

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From Tuesday the following things will happen:

415. TCM SD Channel - will be onair.
416. TCM HD Channel - will be onair.
417. TCM2 - will closedown in the UK and Ireland.

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Does this mean Cartoonito will start airing 24 hours then, MB?

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Maybe - but it will not be starting on Tuesday.

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That's not a problem MB, the comment wasn't actually about Radio Caroline being on your list. More that it would be nice to see it on VM as it has a very important place in UK broadcasting history and will be celebrating its 50th anniversary next year. Unfortunately, with its funding mainly going towards keeping the old radio ship intact, it is unlikely to happen

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It really doesn't look good if they don't bring TCM +1 to VM and lose TCM2 so soon after adding it.

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Cheers MB, top stuff as always:)

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Great offer

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Possibly, (in my opinion) it depends if you want worse BB, more speed but much less functionality in your STB and a poor signal in heavily built up areas and/or in poor weather conditions (can only base T.V. signal on the two different locations where I used Sky though).

If you want BT Sports and the odd decent new show in-between cancelled shows, repeats and the snooze fest that is G.O.T on Sky Atlantic, you are quids in!;)

That said, I would like a couple of the HD variants Sky have though:( But that is all.

P.S. not overly worried about missing out on SS 3+4 HD and even less so about SSF1 HD!!!

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So if I go out and buy a Vauxhall Astra and then see that Ford are doing a Focus with assisted parking...do I...

A. Moan to Vauxhall and insist they fit their cars (including mine) with assisted parking as I have paid good money for it?

B. STFU and go and buy a Ford Focus?

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SKY is like Marmite, you either love it or hate it.

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for me Chad mate

hate there policy of with holding channels
to expensive would lose to much for more money that I am paying now
not worth it just for a few extra tv channels

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And for me I would not line the pockets of the Murdoch family. Unfortunately, I missed Sports so added it back on because I missed the golf and cricket so added it back on. Will scrap soon though I think.

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Unfortunately their offer does seem to make it clear that SKY Atlantic, contrary to recent reports, will remain exclusive to SKY.

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It will never happen but competition commission should split SKY into two separate companies, content and platform!

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as I been saying all alone Chad knew I was right :D:D now where is old boy :LOL:

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I'll give you your due, you've never been happy about withheld channels :D

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no it completely wrong no matter who with holds them will always say the same

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I think Nialli needs to update his blog:

http://vmhd.blogspot.co.uk/

"Fact: Sky are no longer marketing Sky Atlantic as "Exclusive to Sky customers" :erm:

Okay so "SKY Atlantic - exclusively on SKY" isn't word for word the same as "Exclusive to SKY customers" but ultimately SKY are still marketing the channel as a SKY exclusive.

Personally I'm a little gutted. SKY Atlantic launching on Virgin, along with BT Sports, would have gave me real reason to consider moving back from SKY come December. As a consumer, I want choice.