Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

I use my phone as a wireless hotspot and watch it on my tablet. The 3g/4g speeds are quick enough to watch it

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

In 2016 can you honestly see them not offering 4G ?
https://corporate.sky.com/media-cent...-mobile-sector

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What a loss-leading game changer this could be. I can envisage some very cheap deals becoming available for Sky customers, and even better deals for those out contract on other networks too. Free mobiles, calls, texts and data to anyone on tv phone and BB. Or free sky sports for 12 months (channel and/or app) to new mobile customers. They have so many ways to market this and challenge the quad play of BT and VM.

I really dislike Sky, but they know how to woo pay tv customers so they join them. Just look at the offers on their website, free Bb, £150 gift cards to people who recommended by their mates plus another two or three deals as well.

I can see them being extremely happy to play the long game and lose many, many millions in the short term on this.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

Where is this information coming from I can't see VM offer this

4TB drive with cloud storage / The ability to store on Nas home storage system
2 - 4K
3 - 12 Tuners!

Maybe 2TB box, with 6 tuner but not 4K

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

I think the box will definitely be 4K ready. VM have to show they are keeping up with technology and the competition.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

We shall see....

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

It doesn't make sense not to be 4K ready.
Just having a bigger hard drive and more tuners won't be enough to keep unhappy customers or win new ones.

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BBC Three is online-only now available through BBC iPlayer

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

BBC Three content will be available via iPlayer on TiVo

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

Do you think the HD quality be as good as we got on the Tivo BBC3 HD channel?

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It should be ok the iplayer app on my samsung tv outputs bbc in HD so i can't see why the tivo wouldn't too.

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I think he means will the HD quality of BBC Three programs be as good as the broadcast quality to which I say no way.

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iPlayer is currently a maximum 3.2Mbps 720p 25fps using AVC / H.264 encoding. BBC 3 via cable was 1080i 50fps using MPEG 2 - no idea of the average bitrate, but think was said before that BBC on VM is higher than Freeview or Freesat even accounting for the different encoding.

According to, http://en.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php...live=9&lang=en, BBC 1 on Freeview averages 5Mbps with a max of around 14Mbps with AVC / H.264 encoding.

So yes, not as good as broadcast.

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iPlayer on TiVo (and other Connected TV platforms) is now higher than that I believe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/...9-244e482b8895

More technical detail on the new profiles for iPlayer is here http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015/07...or-bbc-iplayer

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

Ah thanks - I missed that announcement. Unfortunately I guess going to 1080 opens up all sorts of interlacing issues so might take longer...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 

They do actually have it ready: