Originally Posted by Rivva (Post 35331647)

Yes thanks noel43 I've got The First 48hrs on record from the start last week via the series link. There's also the CBS reality channel that shows a few crime programmes such as = Unsolved Mysteries - Medical Detectives - 48 Hours: Hard Evidence - Forensic Investigators and 48 Hours Mystery that I watch. But I'd still welcome the Investigation Discovery channel because I'm a big fan of crime programmes/shows. I know there's plenty to watch with what I've mentioned above and also the C+I channel but that's what the TiVo's and V+Boxes are for.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35331530)

Then you better get some more wonga out of your wallet then as you do not get something for nothing in this world.:)

Originally Posted by kop32 (Post 35331546)

Then god forbid why did you not just join Sky,Oh,let me guess then you would have to go on their forums and complain/moan/whinge about lack of broadband speed or "snowy" picture during inclemant weather blah,blah,blah

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35332210)

If Virgin Media DID!! offer those 100 odd channels then i would be prepaired to pay more!

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I did not join sky because they VOD service only works with sky broadband and sky broadband is rubbish!

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35331538)

I find it hard to believe that Sky have 100 channels that VM don't that would be of interest to you.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35332214)

The question is how much more.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35332218)

Sky have:

History Channel HD, Crime and Investigation HD, Bio Hd, Sky Sports HD3/4, Sky Sports News HD, Sky News HD, Sky Atlantic, Sky Atlantic HD, ITV 2/3/4 HD, ESPN America HD, Premier Sports, Premier Sports Xtra, Boxnation, Sky 3D, Universal Channel HD, Investigation Discovery, Al Jazeera, CBS Drama and CBS Action

Those channels intrest me (and a lot of people on this forum) and should be on virgin media!

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I would say up to £40 (maybe more!)

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35332218)

Sky have:

History Channel HD, Crime and Investigation HD, Bio Hd, Sky Sports HD3/4, Sky Sports News HD, Sky News HD, Sky Atlantic, Sky Atlantic HD, ITV 2/3/4 HD, ESPN America HD, Premier Sports, Premier Sports Xtra, Boxnation, Sky 3D, Universal Channel HD, Investigation Discovery, Al Jazeera, CBS Drama and CBS Action

Those channels intrest me (and a lot of people on this forum) and should be on virgin media!

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I would say up to £40 (maybe more!)

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35332214)

The question is how much more.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35332253)

Unless Alan is willing to pay millions for his own personal cable TV service, the real question is how many other people are willing to pay for them.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35332299)

Can we at least have some of those channel as seperate premium channel subscriptions?

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35332299)

Can we at least have some of those channel as seperate premium channel subscriptions?

Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35332342)

I hope not. Pricing non premium channels as if they were premium channels is a slippery slope in my view, threatening the big plus point of VM; 'Non premium HD channels are free'.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35332218)

Sky have:

History Channel HD, Crime and Investigation HD, Bio Hd, Sky Sports HD3/4, Sky Sports News HD, Sky News HD, Sky Atlantic, Sky Atlantic HD, ITV 2/3/4 HD, ESPN America HD, Premier Sports, Premier Sports Xtra, Boxnation, Sky 3D, Universal Channel HD, Investigation Discovery, Al Jazeera, CBS Drama and CBS Action

Those channels intrest me (and a lot of people on this forum) and should be on virgin media!

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I would say up to £40 (maybe more!)

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35332218)

Sky have:

History Channel HD, Crime and Investigation HD, Bio Hd, Sky Sports HD3/4, Sky Sports News HD, Sky News HD, Sky Atlantic, Sky Atlantic HD, ITV 2/3/4 HD, ESPN America HD, Premier Sports, Premier Sports Xtra, Boxnation, Sky 3D, Universal Channel HD, Investigation Discovery, Al Jazeera, CBS Drama and CBS Action

Those channels intrest me (and a lot of people on this forum) and should be on virgin media!

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I would say up to £40 (maybe more!)

Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35332400)

Maybe he has stacks of cash but just hates having a UFO attached to his house?

Originally Posted by windy (Post 35332431)

Just noticed itv 1 now has red button...and ive not had the update yet either.:)

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35332442)

Yes that has been there for several weeks and it takes you to the ITV net player

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35332218)

Sky have:

History Channel HD, Crime and Investigation HD, Bio Hd, Sky Sports HD3/4, Sky Sports News HD, Sky News HD, Sky Atlantic, Sky Atlantic HD, ITV 2/3/4 HD, ESPN America HD, Premier Sports, Premier Sports Xtra, Boxnation, Sky 3D, Universal Channel HD, Investigation Discovery, Al Jazeera, CBS Drama and CBS Action

Those channels intrest me (and a lot of people on this forum) and should be on virgin media!

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I would say up to £40 (maybe more!)

Originally Posted by windy (Post 35332451)

Really several weeks i dont think so.?

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35332458)

Well it has been on my Tivo box and l am not one for making things up.

Originally Posted by windy (Post 35332459)

Ok its just went i have watched itv progs its never come up until tonight.Just a bit confused thats all.:)

Originally Posted by Rivva (Post 35332471)

Hi denphone sorry to trouble you. Just wondering what your thoughts are regarding the TV channel Current on (155). That's if you've actually got round to viewing it yet as you said you was going to give it a try?

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35332464)

Strange that but maybe one of the VM staff can explain why its been on my Tivo for 2 to 3 weeks and not on somebody elses box until today.:confused:

Originally Posted by borrissey (Post 35332492)

How come ITV HD still refuse to put anything in Dolby Digital 5.1??

Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35332369)

Alan I'm sorry but I just can't take your posts seriously anymore. I admire your passion for what you believe in but £40.00 (maybe more!) for those channels is ludacris.

If you are prepared to pay £40.00 per month more than you do at the moment, you could actually cancel your current SKY Sports, SKY Movies and SKY HD premium subscription with Virgin. With the savings you make cancelling these services, plus the extra £40.00 (maybe more!) you are prepared to pay, you could actually get a subscription with SKY which includes all the HD channels you want, all the niche channels you want plus I'm sure you could probably get Boxnation and Premier Sports for that price too.

So within the budget you are prepared to work within you can keep your extra fast broadband with Virgin, keep your TV choice and catch-up TV, get all the channels you want plus be able to record hundreds of hours worth of TV on your SKY+ box and V+ boxes. You will never need to miss any programmes again.

So from here on in the only person holding you back from getting what you want is actually yourself. Clearly neither SKY or Virgin can deliver what you want but a combined service from both will deliver everything you desire.

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35332629)

Sky Movies goes Christmas from December 1st.

Sky Movies Showcase becomes Sky Movies Christmas on 1st December, according to Sky Active. There's three days of Christmas movies, but the rest is the usual themed days (Action movies, Spy movies, Sci Fi etc)

Info thanks to DS Forums.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...4&postcount=40

Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35332883)

Does VM have the rights to Sky Movies Christmas HD? I wouldn't be surprised to see Sky class it as a new channel and not let us have it.

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35332866)

More info now on my blog @ http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.com/201...tmas-from.html

Originally Posted by borrissey (Post 35332492)

How come ITV HD still refuse to put anything in Dolby Digital 5.1??

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35333022)

BoxNation on Virgin Media - update

An insider has told to expect an announcement on BoxNation very soon.

Originally Posted by wwe (Post 35332950)

Why cart we have it all the time. It's great watching Christmas films

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35333022)

BoxNation on Virgin Media - update

An insider has told to expect an announcement on BoxNation very soon.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35333056)

Yes its very pleasing that customers will have a chance to subscribe to this channel now.

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35333067)

Maybe for all we know Virgin Media will do an Cinemoi on us - Giving us BoxNation for two months until the end of Jan. 2012.

You do not know what Virgin are up to.

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35332993)

I don't think its that they are refusing I think it could possibly be a technical reason?

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35333287)

A bit off topic so apologies , does anyone know whether movies are now ending up on Box Office sooner ? Cars 2 was released today on Blu-Ray/3D and DVD and is available also on PPV on Sky BO/HD and PPV on Sky 3D , its similar to the Lion King 3D which is available this month free to Sky 3D customers.

Originally Posted by devilincarnate (Post 35333312)

could they be doing it to try and fool the competition commission? As they maybe trying to say look we are giving overs access to all the movies ( sky anytime) And also we are using them at the same time?

Originally Posted by DaMac (Post 35333181)

In years to come ITV will probably be about as relevent as Channel 5.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35333287)

A bit off topic so apologies , does anyone know whether movies are now ending up on Box Office sooner ? Cars 2 was released today on Blu-Ray/3D and DVD and is available also on PPV on Sky BO/HD and PPV on Sky 3D , its similar to the Lion King 3D which is available this month free to Sky 3D customers.

Originally Posted by DaMac (Post 35333181)

Well the champions league final was simulcast on SKY sports and ITV HD in may, the production company was exactly the same except sky had 5.1 and itv didn't, not even on freesat.. the exact same satellite that sky broadcasts on. Given the ITv and BBc both started to test HD transmission at the same time, the BBC always test broadcast a 5.1 signal even if it was psuedo, ITV never have. Maybe they don't have a real interest in it, where if you listen to BBC content producers they do have a real passion for producing programes with emersive sound and video.
In years to come ITV will probably be about as relevent as Channel 5.
:xmas:

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35333316)

Not sure I just thought that generally a movie was released on DVD a good few weeks before PPV.

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35333222)

Digital Spy: Sky Sports, ESPN agree new five-year SPL rights deal.

Sky Sports and ESPN wins SPL Rights to end of Season 2016/2017.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/ne...ghts-deal.html

Originally Posted by mlayzell (Post 35333338)

From this article it sadly seems to be that ESPN (no old firm games) are happy to be SKY junior partners in relation to UK sports rights. There live sport on Sunday was rubbish, no live UK based sport!

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35333353)

I only watch ESPN when any of the big three are being shown (Motherwell, Rangers and Celtic)

but if Virgin remove ESPN from the XL Package I for one will not be paying to get ESPN in when I can hear them for free on BBC Radio Scotland.

Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes (Post 35333324)

I'd like to think so, but as long as they have mass-appeal reality shlock like X-Factor it ain't gonna happen.

Production values are so poor on ITV channels though, no mistake. Regularly I see timecodes and title cards popping up before or after a program, proving whoever is in the backroom dealing with transitions is a complete muppet, or team of muppets. Also, ITV have the worst quality streams on their SD channels, especially on Freeview. They're so low bitrate there is regular aliasing/quantisation noise. All this before I run down the quality of the programs themselves! :D

Originally Posted by paultrademark (Post 35333403)

Is ESPN likely to be removed from XL TV?

Originally Posted by joff81 (Post 35333410)

since when there is no announcement to say VM are to remove ESPN from their XL pack.

the article states that ESPN and SKY have agreed to a deal to pay the SPL for the rights to air the SPL matches thats all, there is nothing that changes in regards to ESPN and their current pay tv contracts. its a content only deal for the channel to air content and nothing to do with VM in regards to if the channel stays on XL or goes subcription only.

Originally Posted by gaz2810i (Post 35333413)

He was asking a question, based on what a previous poster had said, and not making a statement ;)

Originally Posted by paultrademark (Post 35333414)

2 posters actually, and yes it was a question in relation to their posts :)

Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35332369)

Alan I'm sorry but I just can't take your posts seriously anymore. I admire your passion for what you believe in but £40.00 (maybe more!) for those channels is ludacris.

If you are prepared to pay £40.00 per month more than you do at the moment, you could actually cancel your current SKY Sports, SKY Movies and SKY HD premium subscription with Virgin. With the savings you make cancelling these services, plus the extra £40.00 (maybe more!) you are prepared to pay, you could actually get a subscription with SKY which includes all the HD channels you want, all the niche channels you want plus I'm sure you could probably get Boxnation and Premier Sports for that price too.

So within the budget you are prepared to work within you can keep your extra fast broadband with Virgin, keep your TV choice and catch-up TV, get all the channels you want plus be able to record hundreds of hours worth of TV on your SKY+ box and V+ boxes. You will never need to miss any programmes again.

So from here on in the only person holding you back from getting what you want is actually yourself. Clearly neither SKY or Virgin can deliver what you want but a combined service from both will deliver everything you desire.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35333465)

Well if Sky Atlantic (and other missing channels) was a seperate premium channel then you do not have to pay for channel you don't want!

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35333465)

and anyway, you can't get HBO content on Virgin's VOD

Originally Posted by greeninferno (Post 35333405)

if you think the ITV channels are bad you should take a look at BBC2 scotland - absolutely appalling.

Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35333507)

Yeah the point I'm making is that you want every single channel that SKY broadcasts. You've made that crystal clear on numerous occassions. You've also made it clear that you are prepared to pay more, much more than you currently do to get access to these channels. I've simply highlighted how you can achieve this within your budget. Again if you don't join SKY you're simply holding yourself back. Why do that to yourself Alan? You want the channels and can afford to get them.



I don't remember you raising this as an issue previously, and I certainly didn't say you can get HBO content on Virgin's VOD. Is this you just trying to continue moaning about something else Virgin doesn't have. Again as stated previously if you personally want HBO programming join SKY and watch SKY Atlantic. Joining SKY, and keeping the Virgin services you want, are within your budget. I know this as you've told us time and time again what you'd be prepared to pay over and above your current subscription to access the channels you want. I don't understand why you are robbing yourself of the content and channels you want. I don't understand why you are wasting your time telling us over and over again what you'd like to have access to. Be proactive Alan, here I'll help you out:

http://www.sky.com/quickbuy/build

It's £10.00 to join and you can have the dish installed within 4 days. You can be enjoying everything your missing. In fact come back in 4 or 5 days and let us know how your getting on. No need to thank me just now, I'm just giving you the helpful nudge you need.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35333525)

thanks for the advice

Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes (Post 35333520)

I'm not surprised, especially if the quality slide on that has been recent. I've noticed the quality of the BBC News 24 channel completely slump... poor hosts who trip over their words and frequent technical errors on everything (poor editing, misuse of library photos, music coming in early or late, satellite feeds getting dropped even ones from within our own country). It's like the BBC decided in order to make budget cuts they'd fire the team who did it right nearly all the time and employ a bunch of office temps with a bad attitude.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35333654)

All this argument over Sky and VM, l have said before on this forum that if you want cheap packages, then go to VM, if you want similar cheap packages go to Sky.

Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35333680)

What argument?

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35333654)

All this argument over Sky and VM, l have said before on this forum that if you want cheap packages, then go to VM, if you want similar cheap packages go to Sky

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35333695)

I'm lost were I should go LOL.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35333695)

Can anyone make any sense of that if I want a cheap package go to VM , but if I want a similar cheap package go to Sky , I'm lost were I should go LOL.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35333654)

All this argument over Sky and VM, l have said before on this forum that if you want cheap packages, then go to VM, if you want similar cheap packages go to Sky.

For what you get for the cost its Sky for me, the channels etc, and Sky are not scared about investing for the customers, that US.

Sadly VM lag behind as they won't invest for the customer, they will for BB as that's what is making them money, but the channel content lags behind drastically.

The HD contents lacks behind Sky, CS on VM lacks on pr with the consumer as most of the time, they don't understand what you are saying.

This might be a criticism on VM, but if you don't pay that extra quid, which VM customers don't want to pay, then you won't get the channels.

VM are in business to make money, but they must know through forums like this what VM think of them. And l am certain that VM read this forum, as l contacted VM one day, and they know this forum very well.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35333712)

Schoolboy error - you are expecting logic/consistency in a post by Big A.....;)

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35333654)

All this argument over Sky and VM, l have said before on this forum that if you want cheap packages, then go to VM, if you want similar cheap packages go to Sky.

For what you get for the cost its Sky for me, the channels etc, and Sky are not scared about investing for the customers, that US.

Sadly VM lag behind as they won't invest for the customer, they will for BB as that's what is making them money, but the channel content lags behind drastically.

The HD contents lacks behind Sky, CS on VM lacks on pr with the consumer as most of the time, they don't understand what you are saying.

This might be a criticism on VM, but if you don't pay that extra quid, which VM customers don't want to pay, then you won't get the channels.

VM are in business to make money, but they must know through forums like this what VM think of them. And l am certain that VM read this forum, as l contacted VM one day, and they know this forum very well.

Originally Posted by greeninferno (Post 35333727)

Tivo is light years ahead of Sky's offering and its not even a year into being developed.

And the broadband is different league for most people not living on top of their BT exchange

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35333909)

As pk1 says, let's get back on topic, please.

This thread is not about the merits of Sky vs VM.

Originally Posted by gcampbell (Post 35333983)

To be fair, you get precious little new channels coming to Virgin media so folk need to talk about something to keep the thread going.

I'm happy for boxing fans but I wish the same could be said for award winning US drama fans.

Originally Posted by gcampbell (Post 35333989)

The other major provider had them already didn't they???

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35333067)

Maybe for all we know Virgin Media will do an Cinemoi on us - Giving us BoxNation for two months until the end of Jan. 2012.

You do not know what Virgin are up to.

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35333975)

BoxNation coming on 1st December.

http://virg.co/TVBoxNation

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35333991)

I can't see any mention of a free introductory period, I seem to recall that Box Nation said that this was going to be the case, as with their Sky launch.

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35333990)

But that's irrelevent to this thread.

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35333975)

BoxNation coming on 1st December.

http://virg.co/TVBoxNation

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35334064)

There will be a website which goes live tomorrow