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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3

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Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj (Post 35714972)

I dont think this gen of TIVO will be able to do it. It will mean VM rolling out new boxes.

Thanks. That will be a while away then.

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None of the current pay TV STB's are capable.

The new DVB-UHDTV Phase 1 will allow over the air transmission of 3840x2160 resolution at 60Hz with impproved colour depth , the standard uses HEVC compression.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3

Further to the rumour I posted here last week that Murdoch might take over Time Warner, the folks at TW have decided they don't fancy it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28327604

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Originally Posted by nialli (Post 35713428)

On that "Murdoch to buy TimeWarner" rumour, it seems just to be a rumour with little substance: http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/goo...er-1201260050/. Google buying TimeWarner? Hmmm, that's been tried before (AOL, at the time a huge internet company, bought TW back in 2000) and that is widely regarded as an absolute disaster.
The only TW channels broadcasting in the UK are CNN, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and TCM. There's no reason to believe that their future carriage on VM would be under any kind of threat even if Fox were to successfully buy TW.

I wouldn't say little substance , however they're current offers been rebuffed.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...st-century-fox

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One suspects old Rupert will probably come back with a bigger offer despite being rebuffed this time..

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35714884)

Maybe he was, but then someone posted in a serious argument that they thought Sky News should be before BBC News. I think most of us would agree that BBC News is the best news channel and therefore should be first on the list. On the other hand, others think it is too left wing, object to paying the licence fee, etc, etc. and would never watch it!

Sky lost the right to the preferential 601 EPG slot when their sulking led to Sky News being removed from it and replaced by BBC News.

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Originally Posted by telegramsam (Post 35714966)

You have to subscribe to the hd £7.50 mate

Has the additional Sky HD charge gone up from £7 to £7.50?

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Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj (Post 35714972)

I dont think this gen of TIVO will be able to do it. It will mean VM rolling out new boxes.

If Ofcom decide to make a speaking EPG mandatory, VM may well have to roll out new boxes anyway:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...pg-v-tivo.html

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Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 35714987)

Further to the rumour I posted here last week that Murdoch might take over Time Warner, the folks at TW have decided they don't fancy it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28327604

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35714990)

One suspects old Rupert will probably come back with a bigger offer despite being rebuffed this time..

It's just been discussed on Radio 4 too. It was said that Murdoch is likely to try again and is likely to be prepared to sell off CNN to satisfy the regulatory authorities.

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Originally Posted by Lostlam (Post 35714969)

,As far as I am aware, Sky were the first to create a 3D channel in the UK, so no doubt they will be the first again as you said.

There has been speculation in the industry that Sky 3D will be closing after efforts to increase viewers by unlocking it for more customers failed.

This has been compounded by the fact that, on most days, it has now been reduced to a part time channel.

From what I was told a couple of weeks ago, I think we can now safely rule out this channel as ever coming to VM.

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Originally Posted by neilo (Post 35714825)

Big kahuna was £60.99 with each additional tivo costing £11.50 on top of that. That's what I was told anyway.

Mmm wasn't what I actually asked...

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Originally Posted by DaMac (Post 35714824)

So if I buy the big kahuna bundle with sky movies and sky sports season pass, does that work out a lot cheaper than having the sky movies/sports bundle? You used to get a discount for both, but I presume you have to pay full price for movies with the season pass.

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Originally Posted by DaMac (Post 35715005)

Mmm wasn't what I actually asked...

DaMac,

the Big Kahuna is £45.00 + £15.99 LR.
Sky Sports Season Ticket = £150.00 one off for 10 months (effectively £15.00 per month).
If you take the above then Sky Movies will be £7.00 extra as will the HD pack.

Monthly total = £74.99 (plus the £150 upfront).
Obviously the Big Kahuna only includes one STB so if you have additional STBs they will also be extra.

Normally it would be £100.99 (£85 + £15.99 LR).

Hope that helps :)

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35714990)

One suspects old Rupert will probably come back with a bigger offer despite being rebuffed this time..

Possibly, but I think it really is a case that TW just don't want to merge with Murdoch. And don't forget one of the rival media moguls, Ted Turner, who merged his Turner empire into TW, is probably not keen on it either.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35714991)

It's just been discussed on Radio 4 too. It was said that Murdoch is likely to try again and is likely to be prepared to sell off CNN to satisfy the regulatory authorities.

He hates CNN, so he might even shut it down if he got his hands on it.

Other companies were talking to TW including Comcast and Google, so we may yet still see a deal done. There will almost certainly be more consolidation to come in the media/telecoms/cable cos business in the States.

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Originally Posted by greeninferno (Post 35714945)

They've updated the printable pdf document with the new channel changes.

for anyone who finds this useful the link is here

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/s...MER_TYPE=Cable

59 HD channels, pretty impressive. Of course we also know SKY Sports 5 HD, SKY News HD and SKY Sports News HD are on their way too. 62 confirmed HD channels. I think this time next year Virgin could easily be sitting with 70 HD channels on their EPG.

TalkTalk and BT are miles behind Virgin and SKY for HD channels.

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So with sky sports 5 coming next month but the other hd sky channels not coming till next year apparently does that mean there is probably nothing else to launch this year?

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Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 35715061)

So with sky sports 5 coming next month but the other hd sky channels not coming till next year apparently does that mean there is probably nothing else to launch this year?

depend if any none sky channel deals can be done Vince after SS 5 there only 2 sky channel to get and we know we got no chance of SA

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Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 35715061)

So with sky sports 5 coming next month but the other hd sky channels not coming till next year apparently does that mean there is probably nothing else to launch this year?

ITVBe is due to launch soon.

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Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 35715061)

So with sky sports 5 coming next month but the other hd sky channels not coming till next year apparently does that mean there is probably nothing else to launch this year?

Vince! ffs man, what other load of utter tosh do you want on your telly? :D Ok most of us would like Atlantic, but that ain't happening, can't see for the life of me why people want extra channels, as the song goes, 57 channels and nothing on, well that was in 1992, so maybe Bruce should update that song to 157 channels and nothing on.........:p:

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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35715042)

And the net is leaving Sky n vm put together behind :p: sorry couldn't resist hehe vm certainly have come a very long way over the last 12 months or so.