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anything coming soon fans... ? one of my favourite times on this forum was the day the BT Sport launched as i was sat on this site in work. Utter chaos kicked off as BT Sport launched without warning. What year was that? I want to look at the thread again for a laugh

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GB news supposed to be launching in March 2021

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Yep more price rises.

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BT Sport launched 1st August 2013.
Worth checking this day too: "Most users ever online was 6,175, 27-12-2020 at 00:06."

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Complained about not getting the UHD channels when new customers on ultimate oomph get them.

Received a call yesterday said they couldn't add them for free to my package but managed to recontract me for 18 months on ultimate oomph with UHD for £96 which is £9 less than I was paying before so happy with the win

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Well done.

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Can't add UHD for nothing but effectively add UHD for -£9 the world has gone mad!

The only thing they have gained is tying you into a new 18 month contract - you might have kept virgin for that long anyway.

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apparently the daft racist bloke has said its only going to launch "Later in the year". nice and vague whilst he's collecting a nice wage ha

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Yep, doesn't work for me in Area 20 unfortunately.

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Area 20 is a billing reference. They cover multiple geographic areas, so any pilot updates will always be smaller than the billing regions.

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Who do you mean?

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Only option for broadband for me as BT can only give me 6 to 8mb and have no plans for fibre in my area at present.

Having 2 kids who are online gaming a fast stable BB connection is what we need

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Keep a eye on City fibre they are doing loads of areas at the moment.

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My contract is up May 14th so when I called 2 weeks ago they couldn't Renew my contract and ask to ring in April I like the fact you got it for £96 is that for everything on the oomph bundle im paying £105 a month atm

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Yeah that's for the oomph bundle with UHD included

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Did you get the v6 upgrade to a 360 ?

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They offered it but didn't take it as am waiting till alll the problems are fixed

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I was offered uhd movies and 360 upgrade for £110 a month £5 more than I'm paying atm but said I want lower payments a month ill see when I ring them on the 5th April

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BBC4 on its way out, it will not be commisioning any new shows and will be the home of archived content.
Mt theory is BBCthree will replace it and bbcfour will go online only. https://advanced-television.com/2021...four-scrapped/

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BBC 3 is going back to the same spot and same times - it's going to be sharing channel space with CBeebies which will reduce it's hours to accommodate BBC 3

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BBC4 is to remain as an archive channel and may become a subscription channel overseas.

The ​BET channel closes on EPG number 184 on 8/4/21:

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I thought I'd that posted here. Turns out I put it on the TV360 thread. Oops. :D :dunce:

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BET should pop up again on My5.

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It's been there for a year or two. Or are you meaning a streaming version?

They are going to have to add more content either way, there are only 5 shows listed on it on My5 right now!

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Any news about Sky Atlantic coming to VM?

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Yes, make a note in your diary. It's the day that hell freezes over.

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Was it 2025 or hang on there was it 2035.;):naughty:

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Get a Now TV stick mate and you'll get Atlantic for a very cheap price.

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You should add "unless you're name is jfman" :D

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I actually already do that but it would be great if you could access all tv via the V6 :)

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I agree, but it seems that all hope of SA coming to VM is now lost. Virgin is not willing to add Now to the apps as BT and Talk Talk have done either, which is understandable, although they could have done this by tying it in with the need for customers to have the Sky channels in their package in order to access it. But there is no real advantage for Virgin viewers in that because I dare say Sky would not permit integration, which means we couldn’t search for SA programmes on the V6.

The channel may be wound up anyway at the end of Sky’s contract with HBO.

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Very unlikely considering they also show SKY originals, Showtime and Starz content on there amongst others.
SKY are planning to seriously invest in original content, and by serious we're talking big money.

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As LK2K states, this seems unlikely - HBO programming has been farmed out across multiple channel brands so it is not completely reliant on that output and remember it is a pan-European brand for Sky's high end drama output especially as they increase their content budget and fill their Sky Studios pipeline with new shows.

HBO's deal gives them a clear runway and a buffer to build that pipeline and it's shows like Hausen, Das Boot, Domina and Django that really suggest the future of Sky Atlantic as the primary home for high end drama ordered by Sky Studios, made across the UK/IE, Germany and Italy but serving all of those territories.

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;)

I’m on a deal for Now just it’s still about 300% of what Max is paying. :D

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I’m sure you are right, but the name ‘Atlantic’ would no longer be appropriate.

To be honest, they could put all the Sky Studios stuff on Sky One and drop some of the dross. That would make it a pretty good channel.

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Well I wouldn't imagine there would be a total loss of US programming - I would imagine there would still be acquisitions, co-productions, other possible output partners and (most likely) closer integration with NBCUniversal - plus the name is fairly distinctive among their portfolio so why drop it?

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Yeah....:D

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Aye they really should. a lot of companies keep a ton of channels open which could be condensed a great deal.

i know this is controversial but i always thought getting rid of BBC3 and keeping BBC2 and BBC4 was slightly redundant since they were aimed at the same at the same audience and had such similar shows.

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I wouldn't say similar shows, but they basically moved several genres of shows off BBC2 to create BBC4 back in the day. My BBC2 watching reduced dramatically after BBC4 became available.

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I think there's some non-UK/US content on Atlantic at the moment isn't there? Like Radio Times it's a strong brand which I'm sure will outlive its original framing.

As long as Sky makes money from having Sky One and Sky Atlantic then I see no reason for it to drop one of these channels. As others have noted, the cost of running an extra channel is marginal if you already have rights to the content. And how many people might ask why their subscriptions are rising this month if the number of Sky channels is being reduced?

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Absolutely - they’ve had shows which have originated from Australia like Upright and don’t forget some of Sky’s biggest critical and cultural hits have come from Italy and Germany like Gomorrah, The Young Pope, Das Boot and Babylon Berlin... I don’t think the name of the channel is as literal as it may have been back in 2011.

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iPlayer for TVs is getting an update. There's no indication of the platform update schedule, but I've checked my V6 and the changes aren't implemented on it yet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet...e-2966cf499ae2

The changes are mainly to do with playback controls and subtitles. Button changes and more flexibility for sizing basically.

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The changes are currently in the iPlayer beta option on the V6 if you really want to try them out before the BBC pushing the button on the main version

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Thanks BenMcr. :)

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Have been using for a while. Excellent improvement

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Glad to hear the iPlayer changes are worthwhile. :)

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​I've got the latest update of the TV version of iPlayer on my V6. So it's rolling out to those not opting into the Beta now.

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I know that BBC4 has been suspended, but has VM also suspended Sky Comedy & Sky Documentaries? They are both blocked on my box :confused:

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Both Sky channels working on our Sky Q box. Sure you've paid your bill this month? :D

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Both channels working fine on SKYQ here.
Not seen anything mentioned on twitter either.

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What happens when you try to tune to them? Are HD and SD versions both affected (assuming you subscribe to both)?

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It said 'Not authorised' in the same way that RTE Radio did three years ago when there was a software fault.

It seems to have righted itself upon checking this morning, I had wondered if VM had blocked Sky Comedy as they felt it innappropriate to show this during a period of national mourning, but then found that Sky Documentaries was blocked too!

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It would be up to the channels themselves what they show or don't show, not the platforms they're on.

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Yeah but I thought that VM might have taken it upon itself to not show material on it's platform that may cause laughter in the current circumstances, even though Sky had decided not to pull the channel.

It would be interesting to know if a carriage agreement means that those who pay for channels have to show them once they've paid for them??

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I think you are overthinking the matter to a laughable extent.

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That would be an enormous breach of contract, so extremely unlikely...

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Under agreements carriers are not allowed to block channels without exceptional reaso..

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Thanks. It would obviously be pointless, but I wasn't sure if a platform could buy the right to broadcast a channel & not do so when I was trying to work out why Sky Comedy was blocked.

It makes sense that it would be in the contract that they have to show a channel that they've bought the rights for as this would help the channel owner to increase ad revenue.

I've only ever known this happen on Freeview where one of the 'text n tits' type channels finished broadcasting for the night. An error meant that a frozen picture of a woman's breasts carried on being broadcast, prompting complaints from people when children started channel surfing later on that morning.

The channel couldn't be contacted to remedy the situation, so in the end Arqiva had to be contacted to cut the feed.

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Yes, but I expect the channel was breaching its contract in allowing that picture to be displayed outside its broadcasting hours.

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I agree, I don’t see how Richard can see the two situations as comparable.

If someone in the supply chain is aware that a channel is broadcasting 18 or 15 rated content out of hours (inadvertently or otherwise) then I’d expect them to take reasonable steps to pull the plug. I’m sure OFCOM would take the same view.

The extent to which these processes are automated would be a reasonable defence for operators.

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jfman, has your account beeen hacked? :D

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Sometimes Richard's posts are just that far out there it's inevitable.

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After a lot of back and forwards telephone calls to virgin media I finally got a deal I wanted its still on unlimited oomph and the sky movies uhd and the new 360 box conversion , the 360 software is £24.99 but got it free , the new remotes come on Wednesday I then have to ring Virgin Media set up for the 360 and on that day the uhd movies start all for £106 a month only a £1 more than I'm paying atm without those 2 items it was £100 a month , will see on Wednesday if its worth shouting about

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£24.99 for a software update pure greed from VM, glad you got it for free though, disgusting charging someone for a software update.
£106p/m you've been had mate.

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I got it for £96

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That's much better, it's prob just me lol but i refuse to pay more than £70p/m for tv and broadband i just don't think tv is worth the cost it's just constant repeats and reality crap.

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any idea then we're getting the tivo 360 software for the tivo v6? Is the tivo 360 still not as good as the v6? Its missing a ton of apps?

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I really like 360 and even my wife prefers it to the TiVo software
All4 is missing but a lot of the content is available via on demand anyway.

My5 has just arrived recently

If you have 2 boxes with harddrive it works a lot better than the TiVo system (subject to a strong connection)

HD channels are swapped out if your package has them in it and the SD channel removed so the EPG is less cluttered with duplicates.

Yes there are a few features that TiVo has that 360 doesn’t but it’s a lot more slick and smoother.

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You can ask for it anytime. TiVo here for a while yet.

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Iam getting the v6 360 software today and just waiting for the postman to deliver the remotes then I can call Virgin Media to get the software downloaded to my v6 box

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I wil wait it out don't see for me any advantage. force too will be the only way I can see me changing. More likely to move to freeview with now and Netflix.!!

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You dont phone them, it will be in your app section of your V6

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First update , there's a link in the menu on the v6 box when you click upgrade it does it my v6 box Failed the update whether virgin media know I was trying to update as 2 mins later it updated again and rebooted . NOW THIS IS A WARNING I WAS TOLD ALL MY RECORDINGS AND SERIES LINK ARE SAFE ITS NOT EVERYTHING WAS DELETED IF I KNEW I WOULD HAVE SCREEN SHOT ALL THE SERIES LINK YOU ALL HAVE BEEN WARNED I'M MAD AS HELL ..

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There is a warning on the app before you trigger the upgrade that says that recordings and series links will be deleted. I'm pretty sure it's also in the instructions that come with remotes too:

https://www.virginmedia.com/help/vir...box-to-360-box

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I was notified of this on numerous occasions throughout the process

As part of the sign up for 360 online

With the remote controls in the box

Even during the process there was a warning that ALL recordings and settings would be deleted, it gave an option to cancel at that point.

Someone has clearly given you the wrong info.

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As the customer service guy told me I wouldn't lose anything I never really read the print on the screen lol

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You can ask for it now for a bargain £24.99.

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Software version 4.31 has appeared on my 360 boxes.

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Unfortunately, you've found out the hard way not to believe anything that you're told on the phone by VM. Sometimes it's through lack of knowledge and, in my opinion, sometimes it's blatant lies to get a sale or extend a contract. The internet is full of similar complaints about this sort of thing.

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Have you noticed any improvements, heavyside?

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No, quite the opposite. The 4.31 update has broken the on-screen guide on both my 360 boxes (formerly V6 boxes). The guide of the shared profile is unaffected but the guide of my personal profile is broken. Before in the guide, I could tap in a channel number and that page of the guide would display. Now, whatever channel number I tap in I am taken to the final channel listed. Same with voice command, it goes straight to the end of the list whatever I say. Now the only way to navigate my profile guide is with the up/down buttons. A re-boot did not cure this. It must be a bug - a very annoying bug.

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How annoying.

Just one thought occurs to me. When you first set up the 360, it takes you to the bottom of the menu in the TV Guide because there is an introduction to the software there. I don't suppose they've added something there that they want you to view? If so, view it and then the channels should behave as they did before.

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That's not the case. The last channel on my personal profile list is BBC One SD and that's only there because the London regional news is unavailable on BBC One HD. It's annoying to have to do this but when I can find some time I plan to create a new profile and see if this behaves normally.

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It April and still no new channels launches.

We has not got an new Channel in 16 months - it was SONY MAX 2 in December 2019.

Virgin Media is turning into an joke it Telewest aka ConWest is all but name all Virgin care about is your money.

Also as of April 13th ITVBe +1 is only on Virgin Media (Channels 120/162).

Blue means Not in Scotland.
Red means Scotland only.

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Calm down, lad...

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The Sky UHD service has launched among other services.

Quality over quantity should be better, as they can launch loads of new channels with low quality content it is a waste of time and money.

Virgin Media is a business and if you don't feel you are getting value for money, vote with your feet and leave.

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That's because no new channels have launched at all a certain pandemic halted a lot of plans.

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:confused:

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What on earth do you think is really worth adding . Notice the UK news shows that it will be on all outlets in the UK .will have to wait and see I guess.

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There a number of people here that should take that message on board . No names Richard !:rolleyes:

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There have been huge devlopments over the last year MB, it's just not on the broadcasting front. Although I would never rule out new channels, I would expect to see a grdaul decline of channels from now on. The best we can hope for is some SD channels get the HD treatment like the Sony one.

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It’s the end of the era of new channels, MB. You should open a new thread to keep yourself busy - ‘Going soon from Virgin Media’.

Fewer channels and more streamers is what you have to look forward to now. You heard it here first! ©

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During a pandemic with an impact on the global economy it's hardly a surprise that new channels aren't popping up all over the place. The best you can hope for is GB News and it remains to be seen whether or not that will appeal to a significant amount of viewers.


Sky Atlantic is still the elephant in the room. With Sky using that for their own productions, they may wish to gain more exposure. Then again, they are well aware that Virgin Media viewers desperately seeking access to the channel will possibly have a Now subscription and may not wish to lose that source of income.

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The state of the economy may make it more likely that consumers decide that they can't afford to subscribe to several different streamers. It's too early to make a realistic prediction.

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We don't need new channels, there's enough absolute dross as there is, what we need is new content, as in new dramas, etc, but as others have said the reason for no new shows is definitely down to the pandemic imo.

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What about Sky Sports in UHD which was supposed to launch in 2020. I can't believe we're STILL waiting for that! :mad:

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I was told a few days ago by a virgin media guy " it's coming "

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yep the wait goes on and on

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Lots of people were told that when Sky Atlantic launched years ago!

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Get this via sky go . Can't recall when I last watched it !:erm:

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Yeah, soon I expect! :D

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I use Now TV whenever I want to watch something, good deals are to be had.