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harry_hitch 16-01-2013 21:37
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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35524045)
Before joining SKY recently I didn't have SKY Movies. TiVo was a great tool for finding movies from various channels in HD. Channel 4 and Channel 5 over the weekend offer up some really good movies. Sy-fy HD also offered up the odd hidden gem. At one point I had around 90 HD movies stored on my TiVo box
Wowzers, I have never had that many movies recorded, good effort:). I agree about channel 4 and 5, I have found Channel 4 and Film 4 have some real classics from the 40's and 50's at lunch time too (although b/w films are not to everyones tastes.) Much like Sy-Fy, I find the horror channel has the odd horror gem, alas though they are not HD:(

Media Boy UK 16-01-2013 21:48
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Originally Posted by harry_hitch (Post 35524080)
Wowzers, I have never had that many movies recorded, good effort:). I agree about channel 4 and 5, I have found Channel 4 and Film 4 have some real classics from the 40's and 50's at lunch time too (although b/w films are not to everyones tastes.) Much like Sy-Fy, I find the horror channel has the odd horror gem, alas though they are not HD:(
I have found that BBC Two has starting broadcast movies from 1930's to late 1940's in the early morning - from about 6am.

denphone 16-01-2013 21:53
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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35524084)
I have found that BBC Two has starting broadcast movies from 1930's to late 1940's in the early morning - from about 6am.
Indeed they do that at weekends MB.

jj20x 16-01-2013 22:04
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Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35524001)
Who cares what they say? VM's total package is the best service for me by a long chalk. People should focus on total package requirements and equipment functionality rather than just isolate one aspect of a service to fight over. For someone else, Sky's overall package will be the best for them.
To be fair, nobody cares but them. If XP ends up as largely HD channels it just puts meat on the bones of their argument, I'd just prefer not to hear the mantra repeated too often.

But with XP losing a batch of its channels to M+, it does need beefing up a little with something new. There's still probably a significant number of XP users without HD.

Chad 16-01-2013 22:08
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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35524084)
I have found that BBC Two has starting broadcast movies from 1930's to late 1940's in the early morning - from about 6am.
Do they ever show Laurel & Hardy or Marx Brothers films? Used to watch these with my Grandad back in the very early 80's. It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic. Can anyone else remember when they colourised old Laurel & Hardy movies about 25 years ago? It really put me off the films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0OnUqY9yE

Media Boy UK 16-01-2013 22:14
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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35524092)
Do they ever show Laurel & Hardy or Marx Brothers films? Used to watch these with my Grandad back in the very early 80's. It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic. Can anyone else remember when they colourised old Laurel & Hardy movies about 25 years ago? It really put me off the films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0OnUqY9yE
No idea the one I saw BBC Two broadcasting was an Film from 1936.

Here is my best L&H film - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhB5ZqJJ7Vw

harry_hitch 16-01-2013 22:54
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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35524084)
I have found that BBC Two has starting broadcast movies from 1930's to late 1940's in the early morning - from about 6am.
Cheers MB, I did notice that at Xmas time, but completely forgot all about it. Will keep me eyes open for them in the future:)

Media Boy UK 16-01-2013 22:59
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I know when TCM HD (and the rest) will launch but after Africa Channel launch carry on I am holding that info back it will be by Next Wednesday anyway.

harry_hitch 16-01-2013 23:05
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 1.
 
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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35524092)
Do they ever show Laurel & Hardy or Marx Brothers films? Used to watch these with my Grandad back in the very early 80's. It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic. Can anyone else remember when they colourised old Laurel & Hardy movies about 25 years ago? It really put me off the films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0OnUqY9yE
I don't recall them ever showing Laurel and Hardy or Marx Brothers, but they probably do slip the odd one in now and agian.
They probably colourised them make it more "appealing" to "younger" viewers:confused:. It fails horribly in my eyes. I could even make it through 10 mins of Alastair Sim's Scrooge movie when I saw that colourised.:bigcry:

I would guess the boxsets of all the Laurel and Hardy movies are dirt cheap to buy now though:)

HDFootyMan 16-01-2013 23:06
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Originally Posted by Qtx (Post 35522411)
Saying that video streaming is working ok for you at the moment proves nothing of value. It is known that VM has more than its fair share of streaming video issues, either by not having enough enough peering bandwidth or by local utilisation issues. Look at how long it took them to resolve the youtube streaming issues at the end of last year for example. The virgin fan clun cxan't deny that one ;)

Again goes to show how bad virgins network is compared to sky.
So bad that Netflix have named VM as the UK's best ISP for streaming their content:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...d-at-streaming

Can't deny that.

muppetman11 16-01-2013 23:13
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Originally Posted by HDFootyMan (Post 35524110)
So bad that Netflix have named VM as the UK's best ISP for streaming their content:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...d-at-streaming

Can't deny that.
I would expect that though wouldn't you , VM has more users on faster speeds than any other ISP , the rest are well behind when it comes to fibre connections.

nicko 16-01-2013 23:29
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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35524092)
Do they ever show Laurel & Hardy or Marx Brothers films? Used to watch these with my Grandad back in the very early 80's. It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic. Can anyone else remember when they colourised old Laurel & Hardy movies about 25 years ago? It really put me off the films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0OnUqY9yE

The film that I saw the other day had Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers as the stars in it.

Chad 16-01-2013 23:37
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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35524106)
I know when TCM HD (and the rest) will launch but after Africa Channel launch carry on I am holding that info back it will be by Next Wednesday anyway.
The great news for everyone who follows this thread, and your blogs, is that it appears your insiders are back on top form.

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Originally Posted by nicko (Post 35524126)
The film that I saw the other day had Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers as the stars in it.
Was there singing and dancing by any chance? :D Movies from the 30's and 40's loved a good song and dance routine.

mhatter67 16-01-2013 23:42
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I am pleased we are getting TCM HD there was some horrible aspect ratio's of the SD channel very bad stretched 4:3 shows:(

Chad 16-01-2013 23:48
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Originally Posted by mhatter67 (Post 35524132)
I am pleased we are getting TCM HD there was some horrible aspect ratio's of the SD channel very bad stretched 4:3 shows:(
Yeah, that was horrible.

SKY have got loads of niche channels broadcasting in wacky aspect ratios. Trying to watch them on a big TV is pretty painful.


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