Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34763028)

That doesnt say no more hd just says that they have a release scheduel for them channels meantioned. will people jsut drop the hd thing if it means so much to you get sky if you cant get it and it means so much to you move house then get sky, i want hd but i aint that desperate i moan because virgin dnt have ti, there other services in my opionion make upo for it plus the majority of the stuff i want in hd i have on blu-ray

Originally Posted by KnightRider (Post 34763106)

Well said andrew ive said in numerous posts if you want hd go to sky.VM is an internet based media company offering tv and phone. All this moaning about hd people talk like theve been given a 3 year stretch of VM with no parole. Youre free to choose and if youre still moaning about hd you've made the wrong choice.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 34763108)

If there is supposed to be no more room for HD channels, VM MUST get rid of +1 CHANNELS, as they are a complete waste of time, so why have them.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 34763108)

If there is supposed to be no more room for HD channels, VM MUST get rid of +1 CHANNELS, as they are a complete waste of time, so why have them.

Originally Posted by KnightRider (Post 34763106)

Well said andrew ive said in numerous posts if you want hd go to sky.VM is an internet based media company offering tv and phone. All this moaning about hd people talk like theve been given a 3 year stretch of VM with no parole. Youre free to choose and if youre still moaning about hd you've made the wrong choice.

Originally Posted by virginruinedntl (Post 34763251)

freesat now has red button multi-screen BBCHD: http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.p...ow-interactive

looks like it will be for HD sports like different tennis matches.

Wonder if/when virgin will add this.

Originally Posted by frogstamper (Post 34763208)

VM is not a "internet based media company", in their own words they are a "quadplay provider", it just so happens that in the last year or so what with the BB speed increases emphasis has been on the broadband arm of the operation.
Obviously your quite happy without HD, good for you:) but there are others of us who are still waiting for VM to catch up, not really much to ask from the second largest private TV operator in the country is it?
Obviously if your fed up reading about us moaning about the lack of HD the answers simple isn't it...read another thread, then we are all happy.

Originally Posted by akki007 (Post 34763420)

I would hazard a guess at....soon

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34763423)

But frogstamp this isnt about the dicussion about the lack fo hd etc it about what coming soon even if coming soon in virign minds is 10 years :o: i have said it many times i want hd but i dnt moan about, if it means that much to me i will get sky hd and more blu-ray which i am doing, at end of the day this thread isnt about moaning about the lack of hd

Originally Posted by dodgem22 (Post 34763435)

with regards to getting sky hd some of us do not have that option due to land lords not allowing dishes or other physical factors.

So some of us have no option but to wait and hope the coming soon is sooner rather than later.

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34762610)

On the network currently the could carry about 8 HD channels but no room for other channels, however they coudl add more transport streams so they could carry say up to 50 but that would involve adding a lot of ts's to the network with analouge switch off they could probally carry between 30 and 200 hd channels but i dnt know the exact analopuge channels they ae broadcasting to give a better idea

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 34762663)

.....note, only on VOD!

Overall, yes.

VM could launch a few HD channels (CH4HD and ITVHD) and probably will, but that will be it for 18 months+.

No idea what you mean about assurances, once a contract is signed, that's it.

As for the network, Berkett gave a very insightful presentation to the City last year in which he explained exactly what capacity VM has. So here it is (roughly):

VM has 750Mhz of frequency (capacity) on their network. This is split into 75 slots, or channels. VM use these slots like this, as at November of last year:

28 - Analogue TV
31 - Digital TV
2 - 10mb broadband
4 - 50/20 broadband downstream
4 - 50/20 broadband upstream (being implemented now)
6 - VOD/Interactive tv

1 analogue tv channel = about 6 (of good quality) digital SD channels or 2 HD channels. More channels can be squeezed in, but the quality goes down.

So you see that by switching analogue off, (no major upgrades necessary) VM will have oodles of capacity, but at the moment they have room for about 30 new SD channels, or, could squeeze in 4/5 HD channels.

New compression and transmission technologies will allow VM to have even more channels in the future, so capacity is not a problem, it's just how they CHOOSE to use it. VM don't need to "broadcast" channels over broadband yet using DOSCIS3, they have a cable tv network for that! But, eventually all channels will be "broadcast" over broadband, but that's several years away and will free up even more capacity.

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34763440)

as i said before this thread isnt about the moaning of it there is another thread for this, and as i said previosuyl if it means that much to you, you would move since hd is the most important factor in your life (by you i dnt mean you personally)