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:D

them four channels are free :angel:

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Forever the pessimist you are my dear chap.;)

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Thanks for info - we did not see that before we saw your post.

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*ClublandAkaChilledNow (Clubland TV, Channel AKA, Chilled TV and Now Music) did launch on Virgin UK Channel 345 on January 12th 2016.

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He has good reason to be pessimistic, for not a month goes by without his provider of choice BT YouView losing another on-demand service. He needs our understanding during these dark hours. ;)

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As do Talk talk, youview, plusnet.
I never use the apps on youview tbh as got them all on my Android tv box and roku anyway :p: the ROKU doesn't have a purple circle spinning either ;)

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Always puzzled me why there was just a holding channel for these and the holding channel was not showing anything.

Wish they had picked Chilled instead. Gave up watching the blocky crashy stream through the red button.

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Has keep it country arrived on VM? We had info that it'll arrive on the VM platform during the final quarter of 2016.

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Here's confirmation Christmas comes to Gold from Saturday

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2016/11/24.jpg

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I can see Andrew now with his christmas cracker hat on :p:

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I never remove it! :)

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And l gather you will have that reliable straw hat on again.:p:

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the rest may turn up on channel numbers :dunce:

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No news on that coming.

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FOX News has started "soft" testing of audio and video.

Still to start in all areas of testing.

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Will not happen if you need to press red to watch the rest of them.

As of today no names called Now Music, Channel AKA or Chilled TV is testing.

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they probably noticed not meny people watching the channels throw the app as its slow that's why they probably put clubland on a channel number that's why I fort the rest may turn up on channel numbers I hope so couse they are good music channels

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We are still waiting on information about this from our Virgin Media UK Sources.

We get testing information from our Media Boy Sources.

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Well I hope rest appear as stand alone channels, but the music channels renumbering might have something to do with it

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Hmm, as I thought, Sky exclusive till after the election. ;)

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Wouldn't be surprised if it's in the L and above packages (or whatever they're called now) on launch, not a swipe st vm lol.

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Ha ha, it will be in the pack just above the one that Vince is on whatever that is. :)

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Knowing Vinces luck lol.

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Good on ya! Paper hats are for life, not just for Christmas! :D

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Back of the net! :D

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Big question to ask is this. Actually how many channels CAN VM have on the system. I have not counted how many there is now.

I was under the impression that when VM bought the Isle of Wight channels, theses would automatically go onto the main system.

We would have all the True Channels etc etc. Or is VM, yet gain messing about with the channels

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Spiderplant will know about capacity i think but i know it isn't as restricted as it used to be.
Just because some channels are on say for example vm in isle of white it doesn't mean mainlan uk get them too it's all down to rights etc.

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Just to point out the Isle of Wight is the only part of the UK cable network that isn't part of VM

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I believe that l heard a rumour that VM took that company over. Therefore becoming part of the VM network

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Not quite. WightFibre, as it is now called is still going strong. They provide Broadband to the IOW, but have until recently had no TV services.

http://www.wightfibre.com/

When they were Wight Cable, they bought franchises in Scotland & North Lancashire (Wight Cable North). This eventually became Smallworld Cable, which Virgin took over a couple of years ago.

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No, it's still independent, owned by one of the founders of Easynet, Keith Young.

On the company's website it also says "Today, WightFibre is the last independent cable company in the UK continuing to deliver service with a local touch which is the envy of the large national telecom companies. All our employees live on the island and our customer service centre is based in Cowes providing support 24 x 7 every day of the year."
http://www.wightfibre.com/about/

You were probably thinking of Smallworld which VM bought in 2014.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...rld-fibre.html

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Apparently, Made TV has launched Made in Birmingham a day ahead of the official launch date of November 10th at 7pm.

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a516 says it launch on Tuesday at 6pm.

Also We also seen on a516 web site that Cambridge TV will soon be called That's Cambridge.

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Made in Birmingham is on my youview box looks like it's launched has listings.

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We was meaning Tuesday (November 8th).

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First time in a month i thrned on youview box tonight to check lol.

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No Amazon on 205 yet...

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Yes most certainly not John.

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Well, give them a chance - it's not even 8 am yet!

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We will let your good self give them a tinkle first OB.;)

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I think my vote for channel of the year could be a wasted one!

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Still no Amazon on 205 yet...

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As many as they have agreements to have.

When VM took over Smallworld, Smallworld customers got the same set of channels as all other VM customers. They lost a few channels, and gained a lot.

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No sign of amazon on TiVo and virgin customer services said they know nothing about it and to wait for a letter or email about any brand new services not forums

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Hopefully MediaBoy will get an update from his source in due course. I still think it's likely soon but that's really just guesswork.

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Virgin have not officially announced the launch of Amazon on its system. Media Boy has been told it should appear today, and as today is not yet over, no need for an update.

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Should appear some point today unless there's a gltch or something.

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Thanks, sorry, meant you not Media Boy.

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Tbf MB prob knows more than me on this, i'm just relaying what i got told by a source.

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If virgin told customers better what was going on, things would be bettered

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I think Netflix has moved to 204, I'm sure there was something else on 205 but now 205 has been removed

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:D

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I know that linear channels are normally added in the early hours of the morning, not sure about apps.

In the same way that Clubland TV is now fully utilising their EPG slot, I wonder why Netflix doesn't have a preview channel on channel 204 to entice customers or even show a freebie to drum up interest?

Maybe OTT broadcasters don't need a traditional broadcasting licence, so they can't??

Or perhaps VM would charge them for the extra bandwidth??

I remember when these channels were added, people complained to them that they were via an app.

On their Facebook page, the channel owner said that this was the only way that VM would allow them to be on the platform.

I never really swallowed this as I'm sure if they had paid enough money, they could have been added as linear channels.

Perhaps it was a case of them telling VM how much they could afford or be prepared to pay and VM said that an app based solution was the only option- allowing them to 'blame' VM.

I wonder if the new guy who says that he is to improve the TV side of VM had anything to do with this??

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I thought Amazon was gonna start as a app & on 205 today ��

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Perhaps there has been technical glitches.

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Sounds about right 😎

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Still 4 hours of 'today' to go, and remember, VM have not promised us anything. So we can't complain if it doesn't appear.

But we probably will. :D

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Well l will let the Victors go first and as usual l will follow in behind perhaps.;)

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No Amazon Prime yet? I doon't believe it! :D

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Our sources say Amazon video was due to launch today on vm but they've hit a snag it may not now kaunch until first quarter of 2017

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But sadly they never promised they would

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Do we know what the snag is

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So they didn't discover some technical issue until the day of launch and now all of a sudden it could be delayed for several months, missing the crucial build up to Christmas and the massively hyped launch of The Grand Tour too :shocked:

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Why so long?

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Whose to say that it's a technical snag?

It might be a contractual problem or something.

Does seem daft for them not to pull out all the stops to get it on before Christmas though.

Someone joining via the addition to VM is probably more likely to buy their Christmas things from Amazon because of the free postage.

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No info on snag we are trying to get information, we think it could be down to old tivo speed issues so Amazon want to wait until new tivo is rolling out properly.

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To be honest I don't blame amazon, launching anything on this box is bad idea, even amazon have no faith in the TiVo box that's bad

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Anything other than a technical issue, at such a late stage (the day of launch) would be pretty ridiculous given discussions started over 2 and a half years ago!

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Two and a half years ago what was virgin waiting on

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That's VM speak for Coming Soon...

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Amazon have a new fire stick due in the next few weeks, and I am sure they must have a HDR box up their sleeves as well, I would have been very surprised if Amazon Prime had launched on a big delivery system like VM this side of Christmas, it doesn't make commercial sense.

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Good points and before we criticise VM too much, we only have one unnamed source claiming it was going to launch yesterday.
Let's see if VM announced anything on the 30th or maybe an astute journalist will ask the question then.

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Amazon to say yes?

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Sorry I cant resist Amazon has been on the Tivo for the past 2 and a half years it just hasnt loaded yet.

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I think the pay tv providers are changing there stance now on streaming services , Netflix has been added to Comcasts X1 platform within the last week or so which is a pretty big deal.

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Can't see Sky having Netflix or Amazon though.

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That will depend on whether there is an appetite from the customer to see this happen.

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And also it will depend on Sky's usual intransigence in making deals with many of its rivals as has been seen over the last 10 years and right up to this day.

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I'm sure i read somewhere Sky are looking into having netflix on their skyq in the future.

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Well its highly unlikely IMO but alas what do l know.:)

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Hmm, Your sources also said:
- AMC was coming in February.
- Tottenham would win the Premier League.
- Clinton would be President.
:D

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Well two of those have not come true and there is diddly squat chance of the other one happening.:)

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The Amazon app has been subject to testing on a VM Tivo platform for some months now. It could be that was testing on the V6 but it would be incredibly naive if they left testing on the legacy TivO platform so late in the day.

There was certainly no testing of an Amazon App included in the recent update's testing (just bug reports listed in the Alpha test reports) so perhaps there's been a specific testing program just for this one app or perhaps of course someone decided to wing it and it backfired.

The latter would not surprise me at all.

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Virgin Media agrees long term programming deal with Turner.

http://www.seenit.co.uk/virgin-media...-content-deal/

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And i care why? i'm just passing on what i get told wether or not it happens is a different matter, my sources also say brown is best with a bacon buttie :p:

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I got mixed up it was BT who said it that they are looking into adding Amazon instant video onto their tv boxes.

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Amazon Prime wasn't added to the US Premier until March 2015, and that needed an Tivo update to enable it. We didn't get the equivalent update for a long time after that. I can't remember whether it was this last one or the one before. The early part of this year seems to ring a bell. So it was Tivo's software that was the limiting factor for much of the delay time, both here and the USA.


Previous to the update, US Premier's could download purchased Amazon video to Tivo's hard drive. They then lost the ability to do that when Prime was added.

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If i'm honest part of me is suspecting that me and MB are being trolled a bit by our sources.

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Then you should get rid of your untrustworthy sources Sir.:td:

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I'm indeed being more wary about new sources in future but then again that's the way rumours work some are genuine information some are just bull.

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Well, that is not surprising, really. Virgin play these contractual matters close to their chests and don't like premature leaks you get on these forums, which must be the bane of their lives. So by discrediting those sources by releasing false information to them is in VM's interests.

All businesses like to manage their news stories, releasing them at a pre-arranged time. They provide the media with information slightly ahead of time with an embargo set for the publication of that information. The media co-operate with these embargoes because they know that they will not be given this information ahead of time if they are breached, putting them at a disadvantage with their competitors.

These forums, however, are a complete free for all and play havoc with the management of business information.

Everyone should treat the stories they read on forums with a large pinch of salt unless they are backed up by company or reputable media sources.

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They mention Cartoon Network in HD, but no mention of CNN HD, which has been on the Sky EPG for a couple of months now.

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I have it.............:D

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There was a testing group of customers to test the most recent big software update with the Series Link+ etc.
In that there was some testing of apps and weirdly Amazon Prime was in the choice of apps for a while but then when it was mentioned on a closed forum the next update removed it so as far back as this summer the Amazon Prime app was kind of on the original TiVo but the testers of the software were not asked to test the app and in fact it got removed.
It was like it was on there by accident.

As mentioned you would have thought the week of A Grand Tour would have been prime time to launch it but with how slow Netflix, BBC and just in general the TiVo has gone you can't blame Amazon if they have said we don't want to be associated with that.

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Regarding the Amazon app - Sylviewho on Niallis Blog Page "Virgin Media HD, TiVo & Netflix" said this...

I checked my Tivo box on Wednesday 9th November. Amazon app there alongside all other apps - Netflix etc. Logged into my Amazon Prime account and starting browsing all films, videos etc. Great. Today 11 November no sign of the app! Phoned Virgin, no one there had even heard there was to be an app. Unbelievable!

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That says to me that one there was a significant technical problem and two and that is Virgin's customer service will deny it until it is is rolled out Nationwide John but it will be interesting to hear what others think?

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My thoughts precisely Den

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It depends on what the launch actually is.

When CBS Action launched, they couldn't care less, but BT Sport was a whole different matter.

Talking of BT Sport, could we also see Boxnation included in XL in a similar fashion?

http://www.boxnation.com/boxing-news...and-boxnation/

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Well if Boxnation is added to the XL pack and that is a big if then there would certainly be quite a few who would go for that as it would add good added value to the pack.

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Boxnation won't be in XL bud not for a long time last i heard now this is only a rumour is that BT were purchasing boxnation.
Edit your link just confirmed it was infact a deal struck between bt and boxnation.

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The alpha test known issues referenced the Amazon Prime app but the group testing the latest software on the current platform weren't asked to test it....even though it was there in the apps. The alpha test known issues also referenced 4k issues so I'm assuming that was perhaps related to V6 testing.

If you were also involved in the latest testing exercise you'll probably agree that it wasn't exactly smooth running and an app accidentally making it out to the wrong platform isn't a surprise.

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It won't be added to XL until January at the earliest. Even if it's not added 20 of these big Frank Warren fight nights will be shown on both Boxnation and BT Sports 1. So in effect XL customers are going to get access to the biggest domestic cards on Boxnation under this deal.

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Good Food, Good Food +1 and Good Food HD will become Christmas Food, Christmas Food +1 and Christmas Food HD from December

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Do elaborate Den , tell us why ?

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l think you know why MM as l have explained before to you why l cannot see Sky having Netflix on their platform and that is because they have their own streaming service Now TV and they would not want to undermine that IMO.;)

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Well that's a turkey.

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Bit slow off the mark. Food network is already on full Christmas alert. :erm: