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New Sky set top box.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...t-top-box.html
Sounds like a great box that may well leave Tivo looking very outdated.
Sky bids £40m for rights to city-based domestic Twenty20 tournament

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201...t-colin-graves

Mad Max

26-07-2015 16:06

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Virgin being left behind again in a trail of dust!

denphone

26-07-2015 17:39

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Originally Posted by greeninferno (Post 35790543)

First BT, now SKY

I assume VM have new hardware in the pipeline?

Anyone heard anything?

:)

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Originally Posted by Mad Max (Post 35790551)

Virgin being left behind again in a trail of dust!

Oh dear Max you must not get too pessimistic all the time old boy.;)

spiderplant

26-07-2015 18:20

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Originally Posted by Mad Max (Post 35790551)

Virgin being left behind again in a trail of dust!

So let's see... Multiroom streaming. Suggestions. Will "blur the lines between live broadcast, recorded content, and on-demand over the internet"

Sounds strangely familiar. ;)

muppetman11

26-07-2015 19:23

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35790574)

So let's see... Multiroom streaming. Suggestions. Will "blur the lines between live broadcast, recorded content, and on-demand over the internet"

Sounds strangely familiar. ;)

I suspect if true many Sky customers will be more interested in four tuners , ability to beam recordings to tablets , slick interface and some will also like the 4K ability.

vincerooney

26-07-2015 22:56

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we need a new tivo introduced shortly. free upgrades. 4 tuners. faster. bigger hard driver. come on virgin media lets launch an invasion

passingbat

26-07-2015 23:22

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35790574)

So let's see... Multiroom streaming. Suggestions. Will "blur the lines between live broadcast, recorded content, and on-demand over the internet"

Sounds strangely familiar. ;)

I'm a big fan of Tivo. and agree with you... but; multiroom streaming... well, kind of mess. The main channels that would have made it a good USP, just aren't there. Whether that is purely licensing, or VM not prepared to pay an extra cost to obtain the licensing, who knows?

It sounds as if Sky may have covered that aspect, though only time will tell.

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Sky has also renegotiated its rights deals with broadcasters to allow it to “side-load” programmes from the SkyQ box onto mobile devices

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And, until Sky boxes get Whishlist functionality, they've lost at the get-go for me.

greeninferno

27-07-2015 10:13

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35790562)

:)

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Oh dear Max you must not get too pessimistic all the time old boy.;)

Is it imminent or "coming soon" VM style :D

denphone

27-07-2015 10:31

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Soon enough is the word l hear on the grapevine.

telegramsam

27-07-2015 13:48

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I wonder if the new Sky boxes will be as slow as the Tivo box though? I prefer watching my tv in the bedroom on the V HD box but occasionally I watch some stuff in the living room and it`s then I see the slowness most on Tivo. Any idea anyone why it should be this way?

1andrew1

29-07-2015 13:04

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Looks like La Liga TV rights are being sold by two organisations, though not to say that Sky and BT could not buy them all.

1. Four clubs (Barcelona, Celta Vigo, Espanyol and Real Sociedad) recently agreed Spanish TV deals with Telefonica. International TV rights for their home matches will also be sold by Telefonica.
2. The remaining 38 clubs from the top two divisions in Spain including Real Madrid will have their international rights sold by long-standing partner Mediapro which ironically is based in Barcelona.

https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/...0801--sow.html

tassiekev

29-07-2015 22:52

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BT today launched 7 sports channels (ie no red button)

Copied from BT forum because I couldn't figure out how to get the right link - its late & I'm tired:

BT Launch their New Sport Extra Channels
BT Sport X1-X7 on 450-456 and X1HD-X7HD on 465-471 respectively

muppetman11

30-07-2015 09:49

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Vernon Kay has bad news for NFL fans: 'Channel 4 isn't showing any this year'

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...this-year.html

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