Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Chart Show TV is now owned by Trace Music.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Thanks for confirmation. I saw conflicting information and vaguely remembered seeing a headline a while ago, so I decided to go for the one that had definitely owned them at some point.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Well, it would be nice for us to get the bits and bats that are missing from the platform.

It does seem odd that the fairly recently launched Total Country decided (and could afford) to join VM, but the longer established (and, according to it's owner, hugely successful*) Keep It Country didn't appear. Perhaps their new competitor has prompted Keep It Country to join cable too??

* The channels owner has claimed that it gets more viewers than Sky Sports when a major match is on! Mind you, he also claimed that his channel was HD on Freeview, just because it had been added to one of the temporary HD muxes.

These temporary muxes are now slowly being closed and there won't be room for all the channels currently broadcasting on them. I suspect that the tiny amount of capacity available on Freeview will have shot up in price. If he can't find space or cannot afford to go onto a permanent mix, maybe he intends to replace his lost viewers with VM customers??

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

And then there's the future aim of Freeview being 5 main multiplexes rather than the current 6 (plus the 2 temporary multiplexes). Because of mobile broadband, etc, etc, blah, blah, reasons. ;)

Though I recently did some rough workings out based on how the temporary multiplexes utilised their space with a mix of HD and SD in MPEG4 and reckon they'll get surprisingly close assuming all the SD channels with an HD version on Freeview get replaced with their HD version and +1s are deprioritised. But that's Freeview and this a Cable thread...so I won't go into it further.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Keep It Country has moved to Freeview COM4, but at the expence of losing their coverage in Wales. The proliferation of Scottish & Irish artists sponsoring (and presenting) the programmes is no doubt alleviating some of their costs. The channel is also heavily marketed in the Irish Republic. Total Country ignores this market concentrating on US & English based content.

Total Country has the same owner as Clubland TV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Country

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

I noticed that CBS Reality is airing on at least 2 streams and the Islam Channel is using 1 of them.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

We already have these channels, maybe they are due to move frequency? Satellite usually dual illuminate channels changing transponder, not sure if VM do the same. They could also be dual illuminating with the SD channels being moved over to the more efficient MPEG4.

Alternatively, these feeds might be being used for testing purposes for channels that VM don't yet want people to know about. On satellite, feeds of channels for services that were never intended to join the EPG or duplicates of channels already on the EPG are sometimes used.

If this is the case, I wonder which channel VM want to keep quiet until an official announcement is made ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Can't say I see what you are seeing. I just see CBS Reality once, the other one is the +1 channel. There is nothing else labeled CBS Reality on C066 or any other multiplex. Everything on C066 is MPEG2.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

My apologies. Thanks for clarifying.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

No worries. I'm no expert, I'm relatively new to the DigitalBitRate data and am still learning to interpret it. I could be wrong.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

We also seen Horror Channel and S4C on that so called new channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

All I see are Horror Channel and Horror Channel +1, and they are both MPEG2, so they would have been there for a while. I don't see a "New" indicator on them. What are you seeing that makes you say they are New?

The S4C situation is weird, 2 SD versions, 1 Audio Description version and one labelled "Old S4C". Then there are two HD versions which are labelled identically and look identical and are both on the same multiplex, so the only explanation I can think of is load testing. Oddly there is a similar HD duplication for the new BBC Scotland Channel.

I'm guessing S4C has went HD only on VM, except for the AD channel, so I'm guessing it's just that the SD version is still on the network but hidden and relabelled as Old. The recently HD swapped Premier Sports 2 is still there in SD form so it's probably just how VM do things.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Project 1 and Project 2 has been testing on that stream since last summer (Broadcasting Pick and Challenge). They was said at the time to be testing for the launch of Eleven Sports 1 and Eleven Sports 2.

But Eleven Sports 1 and Eleven Sports 2 was remove from testing an week later.

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-CBS Reality
-horror channel
-horror channel +1
-CBS Reality +1
-Islam Channel English
-S4C Audio Desc.

Look Virgin Media are set to move to the new stream and broadcasting in MPEG4.

http://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.ph...ng=en&mux=C066

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Don’t know if it is still the case, but the BBC used to block some sports programmes with rights issues from being viewed outside Scotland. The existence of 2 BBC Scotland versions, one intended for Scotland & the other for elsewhere would therefore make sense.

S4C also shows a lot of Welsh commentary sports that another channel may have rights to.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

The old SD versions will have to be kept there so that customers can view anything that they recorded in SD. This used to be for three months, but alately they seem to have extended this to twelve months.

Btw, I wonder why they use the french term 'Sans Nom' for 'No name' or 'anonymous' in these tables??