Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

yep itis im allways watching it eaily hours of the moring :):)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Good point , just hope the content picks up.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Yes you can not beat seeing Eve in her Fig leaves in the early hours of the morning:D:D:D:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I wish Alibi had been the first to go HD; I can't remember the last time I watched anything on the other 'UK' channels.

I think watch show a few films, so I may keep an eye out for any good HD films. I just hope they broadcast them with 5.1 sound.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Agree 100% , we watch a few things on Alibi.

Really you don't get 25 films on sky anytime

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

That is why it is Anytime+.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

We will have to till July 2012 when Alibi HD launches

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Q2 Or Q3 is the offical expected arrival date so you will just have to wait to later next year.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

UKTV have said them selves Q2 or Q3 is the expected launch date. No offical date has been confirmed yet.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=642

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

There are too many things that could happen in the next 10 months for them to promise anything. Any channel could sign their imports up and they'd be stuck paddling in the mire. iTunes is already releasing episodes of Castle months before Alibi airs them so it looks as if they've already lost first run rights to that.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Virgin media will surely have to get Premier Sports very soon or people will leave Virgin Media. It is only matter of time until they launch a HD channel.
http://www.facebook.com/premiersports.tv

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

That's me not watching NHL this season.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Virgin Media might reach a deal very quickly with Premier Sports like they did with ESPN.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I can get Premier on Sky however I won't be bothering the PQ isnt the best , real shame ESPN America appear to have lost this.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Lets just see what happens instead of surmising what might happen.;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Not in comparison to Sky Sports HD or ESPN/ESPN America HD.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I remember Premier Sports officially announced they secured the UK broadcast rights to ESPN Friday Fight Night earlier this year. About 2 weeks later it was confirmed the deal was off. Why was the deal off? Well apparently Premier Sports went directly to ESPN in America and secured the rights to shows Friday Fight Night exclusively live in the UK at 3:00am. About 2 days later ESPN in the UK confirmed the show would still be shown by them in the UK but not live. They would continue to broadcast the show at either 7:00am or 8:00am, just hours after the live broadcast on Premier Sports.

Let's wait and see what happens with this NHL deal.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Hopefully your right Chad :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

A good few weeks from Virgin. £7 off my bill with the dropping of the 2nd box premium HD charge, five new HD channels and the launch of Sky Anytime content. :tu:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

l will second that as the last couple of weeks have been excellent.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Tivo Update just round the corner :)

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...er/td-p/774391

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I beat you to it :D
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35...-post5206.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Whoops :redcard:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Ken was right :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Well we shall have to give you 5 gold stars then plus a skipping rope as a added extra.:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

That is terrible news, no HNIC for me I will really miss it.:(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

click Ice Hockey and then click NHL http://www.premiersports.tv/

Premier Sports HD will be launching in due course which means at the appropriate time and that is now.
If Virgin Media sign a deal to get Premier Sports i think it will include Premier Sports HD.
http://twitter.com/#!/premiersportstv

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

i say thank you for that hd boy as i say i just post on here if i am 100% sure on the news i get if i am not sure i will not post about any news ;) i was right about skyany time and here it not just me Media Boy been right about all the channels you got in the past week he got a insided i got insided but we both will not give names out on here too anyone if we do there job may be on the line . but i say thank you too say i was right on here :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

We live and hope....:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

So the 2nd Tivo update in november will have the sky sports red button and bbc red button activated ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Maybe maybe not.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I've been as vocal as anyone in the past 16 months about Premier Sports coming to Virgin however I still don't think the channel will arrive on the back of them securing NHL rights.

Let's be honest in the UK our 4 main sports are Football, Rugby, Cricket and Boxing. Premier Sports have tried their best to secure as much Football, Rugby, Boxing and MMA rights as possible. Also for the petrol heads they secured NASCAR and Swedish Speedway. I'm not trying to wee all over the NHL, or anyone who follows hockey, however trust me this will not change Virgins view on the channel. Virgin view Premier Sports as a niche channel, carrying niche content.

Over the past 12 months there has been various campaigns run on boxing forums, boxing websites and boxing torrent sites to bombard Virgin with demands for the channel to be added. Similar campaigns have been run by fand of the Blue Square Premiership too.

The only way we'll see Premier Sports on Virgin is if they land the rights to screen major football such as Europa League or FIFA World Cup qualifiers. It's football content that sells. Look how quickly ESPN turned up on Virgin after securing the rights to screen 46 Premeirship games and 30 SPL games. Would ESPN be on Virgin without their British football content?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I think they have had Europa League on it - I'm sure I watched the Stoke game on Premier Sports.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

i cart say till i am 100% sure

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

They had some Europa League qualifers.

---------- Post added at 12:43 ---------- Previous post was at 12:41 ----------

Nick O on the virgin forums has said feature updates will follow very soon after this update
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/.../708349#M17554

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I believe they also showed my team fail terribly in their attempts to qualify for the Champions League against Malmo both home and away. They also showed Sion Vs. Celtic in the Europa League qualifier. Nobody has exclusive rights to the qualifying stage of either the Champions League or the Europa League.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Lets just wait and see.:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Virgin's policy of not forking out for supposed 'minority channels' is gonna end up biting them in the a**e, be it Premier Sports, Boxnation, Sky Atlantic, as more and more of these 'minorities' will jump ship, and their numbers will soon add up.

VM made hundreds of millions in selling their Virgin 1, Living and Bravo channels as well as their share in UKTV - stick some of that into getting content (and that's channels we DON'T have just now, not +1 or even HD versions of channels we do have) and they'll do a far better job of keeping customers.

Once they've got that then they can highlight the benefits of Tivo and On Demand (both of which they are currently having big technical issues with which doesn't help).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Do you know something ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I think you're spot on Chad

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

http://www.virginmedia.com/tvradio/f...n-media-tv.php

It would appear that VM's Sky Anytime does not include HD movies.

:(



(Apologies if already posted).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

its not a question of what l know but a question of what you know.:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

One things that I can't understand is why Premier Sports, who have been up and running for about 16 months now, haven't bothered to set-up an on-line subscription service. You'd think it would be beneficial to them to allow non-SKY customers the chance to watch their channel, even though it'll be via an on-line stream. I'm sure fans of NHL, NASCAR and their other sports would consider paying £5.00 per month for an on-line version of the channel.

In fact when I think about it, it's concerning that they don't have an on-line model. Maybe Premier Sports aren't in it for the long haul and are just having a punt like Setanta Sports. Virgin might not be interested in carrying the channel as they've sniffed it out as a tin pot channel.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

You could be right Chad

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Oh well, if you subscribe to SKY Movies HD you'll either need to watch or record the movie you want to watch in HD instead. Don't worry, the film your after will be repeated about 12 times during any calendar month!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

will i see if i can get some info on this by the weekend ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Very true. Just be nice to free up some of my TiVo recording space for all the other carp I record LOL....one of these days I will have to make a decision on "Im not going to watch that so might as well delete it..." :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Oh well thought it was too good to be true! I can't say I ever bother with VM's On Demand offering, and I thought this one may be the one to make me use it. As stated elsewhere, just a case of making more use of that 1Tb drive - would have been nice to have it on tap though.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I'm pretty sure we will be getting Sky Movies in HD. The press release here directly contradicts the one above http://mediacentre.virginmedia.com/S...line-21da.aspx. If you scroll down to the small print it clearly states the Sky Movies channels and their HD variants. We'll soon find out which press release is correct.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I think the Sky Movies HD stuff will come but just not yet. I have a feeling sticking 500 Movies in HD on the headends is a technical challenge ;)

So the article is about what you can get NOW (for instance it makes no mention of Sky Sports Anytime), the Press Release is everything that will be coming

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Maybe the HD versions will only be available to customers paying the premium HD charge. Today's link could in theory be missing a bullet point stating this. Lets hope so.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Go on, admit it. You're a goldfish, aren't you? :)
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35...-post5191.html

There has been no announcement of a second update, anyway.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I think there has been a confusion between two updates, and two rollouts of the same update ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Will Sky Sports launch this month on Sky Anytime?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Not from this MB.

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/s...ice.controller

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Good find - thanks for info.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Just noticed this and if this is how they are going to do it it will be better?

[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

yes that looks better.
Im not sure why they have the XL or L there as well, as i would have thought the box would know what package you have and select the correct one?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Not got that here.

Have just looked and noticed some HD content starting to turn up. :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Neither have I. Should have put where i got the pic from:dunce:

http://www.virginmedia.com/tvradio/f...n-media-tv.php

Good to see HD content starting to come:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

here to i have not got that all i have this that the moves gone up two 63 moves and comeing

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Not on mine yet.

Have you actually got it on your box.

It would make life easier or even better put the catch up logo in the epg.?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

So the bbc and Sky Sports red button will be activated without a second software update :confused:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

It's a wrong screen shot

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

My Bad, But would have been better if correct.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Correct.

It's not really any different from running a new application on your PC or iPhone. You don't need to update Windows or iOS to do it.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Not you thats bad its virgin they should not have put in on the web page.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Will it be activated once the Tivo update has been fully rolled out which will be well before christmas

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Chill out dude it will happen well before xmas ive had my tivo since the beginning off may i can wait a few more weeks,bet you get this excited xmas eve lol.:D;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I have mine since March and I have been very happy with it as well. A few more weeks will not make a difference. But I get that excited at new year and not Christmas:erm:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

What HD Anytime content have you got ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Something on sky living, will have a look (after celebrity juice) ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I have claire richards slave to food in HD on my box. I think that's been there for a while

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

http://twitter.com/#!/virginmedia
It looks like 2012 will be a very good year

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

anyone got the red butten on itvhd on tivo i have

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Yes me get the message oops that didnt work.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

there got too be working on it and thanks for letten me no ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Wonder if the Sky Sports and BBC red button is next ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Everyone will need to have had the downloads first though.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

So the red buttons will be working in the next update then ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Same here Ken / gadge

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

The download is needed for the future release of red button.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

The customer wants several channels ie Atlantic, Premier Sports, VM should give it to the customer.

If VM wants to run a second tv company, then sell out to a company that wants to give its customers what it wants.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

VM can't give Atlantic to the customers, as it is exclusive to Sky (according to Sky's own promo materials).

Nice try, though....

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Where did that come from?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Sky have offered Sky Atlantic to Virgin Media at a high price supposedly.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Then why do they state in their own promo material that it is exclusive to Sky?

One is surmise, the other is fact. ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

anyone seen the virgin new home page http://www.virginmedia.com/

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Because it is at the moment

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

what is what at the moment?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Exclusive to Sky

---------- Post added at 18:28 ---------- Previous post was at 18:22 ----------

I saw it couple of days a go. I like it

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Thank you for repeating what I posted.

Adding value, as always....:rolleyes:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

It's pretty good, more modern but still familiar.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

They only thing l want them to change is that horrible tv guide colour scheme - its horrible.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

You have not specified which box you have got as they have different EPG's:confused: EG TiVo and V+

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I thought he was talking about the Online TV guide :confused:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

the guide is on Samsung V+ box