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He has not spoken to you yet.;):D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

Although you say that, Arthur, you have been saying it for a long time now!

Virgin did make great strides in 2012 and they gave us a lot more channels than we had before at that time.

Virgin have admitted that they have been concentrating more on broadband of late and they will now concentrate more on content. There has been speculation that they may buy back UKTV.

However, what we will get in future is likely to be a combination of tv channels and on demand and streaming services. I am hopeful that we will be getting Amazon within the next 18 months. Kingdom can be found on demand right now.

As far as price rises go, all providers have to put up prices, and in fact the latest one was down to Sky, not Virgin. You must recognise that if Sky puts its prices up, Virgin have to pass them on, they will not provide channels to us at a loss.

Good luck with transferring to Sky. I believe that your experience last time you went over to the other side was less than satisfactory.

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And you would actually watch all those channels? Given that Virgin would have to put up prices to give us this long list, maybe you want to think again. No point in having channels for the sake of it.

It's not up to Virgin whether we get AMC or Sky Atlantic until such time as BT and Sky respectively decide that they are prepared to change their attitude towards allowing other platforms to carry those channels.

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At the end of the day, a survey showed last week that 95% of television watched in the UK is available on Freeview, so squabbling over the fact we don't have QVC Beauty and the likes is irrelevant.
What is the point of expressing disappointment about not having a channel you will probably never watch.

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I filled in the survey earlier today on the official forums about in particular online offerings and account admin.

It was asking about what offers have I had and taken up etc.
I said as I was on the top package of everything (as I am VIP bundle effectively) then we never and I mean NEVER get any offers of anything so as we don't get the offers like Sky Movies for £1 or Sky Sports season pass or whatever it was then spot prizes of things they offer like the 6 months of Netflix or swap your box for free etc would be nice little sweeteners.

It is a bit sickening if we pay over £100 a month that you can get no offers just because you have the best everything and pay the most.....

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Well, what can you give to a man who has everything? :D

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-QVC Beauty and QVC Style are testing on Virgin Media UK right now.

-Talking Pictures TV some good movies on that Channel (I watch them on Sundays)

-Disney Channel HD - only broadcast in Virgin Media Ireland areas,
-Irish TV - rumour to be in talks with Virgin Media over launch.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...-in-talks.html

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Listen keep pushing them for offers I got full sky sports and movies and in HD, XL TV, XL phones, 1000 mobile minutes, 200 minutes to any 08 numbers, my two tivos £ 67 for 12 months

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Do Ireland VM get Universal HD?

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:shocked:

How on earth did you get that lot for £67 - just curious!! :)

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Well before that my loyalty package was £108 and my loyalty deal was coming to a end and I was offered £99 and I accepted but he got it wrong and it was £117. They apologised and offered me a new customer deal for £67 plus £17.99 line rental included ( which was wrong) but they decided to honour the deal and I have to call in November to discuss new deal price

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I believe that there are still some customers with SD only boxes though.

A very good point Andrew.

I recently read an article that said that VM expect to be spending less on linear channels and more on VOD content.

Perhaps this is why new channels seem to have dried up?

I'd be interested in taking that survey, do you have a link to it please?

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No Worth noting also that VM gets the +1 channel which BT and TalkTalk don't.

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It must be nice to be on commission Andrew.;)

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Nope.

Here is the list of channels only on Virgin Media Ireland areas.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/p...asting-on.html

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Looks like Tivo has been bough out

http://vmhd.blogspot.co.uk/