Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I guess for us here it'd be: History, NatGeo, FX, Five USA, MotorsTV, Virgin 1, Hallmark, Disc Sci, Horror Channel :-)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

well we can dream.. 1 month and counting...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Mate, I was just joking. I was being sarcastic because someone above was moaning about it even though it's only 1 day old. I did say below my post it was joke.:p:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

ITV player now showing in TV choice Swansea on the Langley platform

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Ahem.....


.....please.....

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

:(Just phoned Virgin to complain about being misled about HD coming soon to be told there will be no new HD channels until 75% of households are able to use it . Personally I have given up hope of ever getting new HD services on Virgin and am waiting 4 my contract to expire . :(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I wish agents would stop making stuff up about HD.

Staff have yet to be briefed on Virgin's HD plans for this year.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I am sorry but that is a load of rubbish. An other CSR making things up.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Perhaps the VM webcast in half an hour's time may give a clue??

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hope rising ready to be dashed.;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

lol

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

"More HD channels this year".

"Ofcom market investigation may deliver access to Sky premium sports and movie channels in HD".

Annoyingly my feed stopped at this point! ha ha.

So basically, coming soon

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

All you missed was him adding that sky WILL NOT (his emphasis) wholesale their HD channels to VM, and they're hoping there will be some movement in the pay tv investigation in june/july.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

So what happened too "the first 3 months of the year" then?

More HD channels "this year" sound like even more bluff and bluster to me >:(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

More VOD joy :dozey:. From what i heard its going to be closer to the end of the year and that even then only if Ofcom wing in Virgins favor.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Yer but i wonder if everyone would be this excited if they had to pay for it,Its not VOD we want its HD Channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

which virign have said they cant get because sky will not give them it, there only maybe 6=8 channels outside of sky portfolio that ar ein hd and they will cost a bit and people aint goign to go to virign for a hd sub of say £10 when they ccan go to sky for 30 hd channels its simple business sense until virign can get access to sky hd channels they will not get access to other ones they need ot pay for the best hope it for itv and ch4 hd

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Virgin Media added 44,500 net pay-TV additions in the quarter, down from 61,100 a year earlier. Virgin flagged up the rising usage of its VoD services. On a monthly basis, it said 1.8 million of its digital TV customers were now using VoD, representing a reach of 51.8%. Average views per user per month in the quarter were 29.7, compared to 22 a year ago.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/8841...a-content-arm/

Info from Media week

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Another let down on the HD front, that's the last straw for me, after eighteen years with VM-TV in its various guises I'll be cancelling in May when my contracts up and reluctantly going to Sky.
The fact nothing has been mentioned since Berketts boast of three or four HD channels in the next three months, made me realise VM would let us down yet again concerning HD.:td::td:

Heres a reminder...

http://www.trustedreviews.com/tvs/ne...HD-Channels/p1

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

New channel to launch on Virgin TV on April fools day.

I am not joking with you but agbnielsen is reporting that Living +2 will launch on Virgin and Sky on the 1st of April.

www.agbnielsen.co.uk/agb/files/ClientServices/New%20BARB%20Channels/Implementation-Living%20+2.doc

Info from agbnielsen.co.uk.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Great! Just what we needed. On a serious note, I think it will take over Challenge +1.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Flippant mood (after a nice holiday). With all the name changes (Dave ja vu, Eden, etc) when will Challenge change to Anneka?

H

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

i hope not cause i use it a lot, livign +2 is jsut dum

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

if we have living+1, Dave ja vu, challenge +1, ITV2 +1, then why isn't there a plus 1 for the 2 most popular channels - BBC & ITV1?

I know they both have BBC/ITV Player, but that is not all the programmes, and then not normally until the following day.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Yes, not good. If people want HD, Sky is the place to go and always will be.

Not only do Sky control all the premium HD stuff (films/sports) but they indirectly control most of the other HD channels too, ie History, National Geographic, FX etc.

Looks like positioning to me.

VM are rebranding their channels later in the year and have already launched Living 2+1, This latest launch gives them another slot on the Sky EPG and around Autumn (I think) VM will rebrand all their channels. So it might all be messy now with having Trouble and Living 2+1 next to each other, but it should all make sense later.

Probably rights issues. The main channels carry programming ie football, that the Beeb and ITV only have the rights to broadcast on their main channels only. It's the same reason why you don't see some programming on VOD.

:D

I think someone should make a programme called Challenge Anneka, sounds rather good to me, as do the jumpsuits.....;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Where's Media Boys new look list to be launched this Monday? Almost as good as one of Virgins launch dates.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

That is genuinely hilarious. As Virgin are a train wreck in pretty much every other area at least they have a sense of humour when they add a new channel. Personally I'm holding out for Living +4 though. Watching psychic BS and other shovelware with an added 4, not just 2 hour delay will really add that extra magic.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The new look list will be online within the next 24hours.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Thanks media boy new you would'nt let us down

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The following is being reported by wikipedia:

1. Discovery RealTime Extra is to be rebrand Discovery Shed from March 20th.

2. When Living +2 launched next month no other Virgin owned channel will closed as an Channel called ''My Channel'' has sold their Sky EPG Channel number to Virgin.

Info from Wikipedia - so they may not happen.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I have seen an email from FIVE and its says ---------- Post added at 12:47 ---------- Previous post was at 12:07 ----------

The new look list is now online - see post one.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Where would I find the webcast or was it only available 'live'?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Details can be found here: http://investors.virginmedia.com/pho...-latestresults

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Discovery Shed will launch on Virgin TV on March 20th.

Discovery are to Closedown Discovery Real Time Extra to make way for Discovery Shed to launch on Virgin Channel 274.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I'm blocking it....

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

How can you block iut?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I thought Discovery Real Time Extra was just being renamed discovery shed.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

To me and you it just an rename.

But on other web sites they say it an new channel.

See link: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas...d-channel.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

me too

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Everyone should watch the excellent educational documentary 'Idiocracy'. It's an interesting insight into the dumbing down of society, and a glimpse into our future.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Channel?
Time? :p:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It's on Sky Movies Comedy tomorrow.

The rebranding of all these channels is really starting to take the biscuit.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

HD Channels on Virgin TV update:

I have just been looking at DS Forums and I have found the following rumoured:

-A&E are currently in negotiation with VM to take at least one or more of their HD channels. They are History HD, Bio HD and Crime & Investigation HD

-VM Sales dept says we're getting ITV HD, Discovery HD and Sky1 HD within the next Month.

To keep up-to-date on this story see this link: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...9#post31173499

Info from DS Forums.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Can't say i'm suprised there's been no discussion about the latest HD new...


I think we all relise that we can only believe it when we see it!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Well if the channel are saying they are negetitioing it is a bonus ;) means we know they are trying to get them, but i dnt beleiv for one secodn the sky1 hd is true seems more like a sales rep saying anything to get the person to stay or sign.

---------- Post added at 14:53 ---------- Previous post was at 14:52 ----------

can one of you please explain how you are goign to block it? the channel can do what ever they want as long as it within regulation and they dnt lose there fan base which i doubt they are.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Thanks for the good news MB. It's something to hope for at least. I don't have a HD TV or V+ Box yet but if it ultimately keeps the HD junkies quiet in the forum then it can only be a good thing. ;) Although I see some comments from the dissenters already! :rolleyes:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

By the time we have HD on VM, l will have cobwebs on my Tv and Blue Ray will be out in full, all this talk about HD on VM is nothing but a load of B+++++++.,
ITV, Freeview, Sky are getting loads of HD, what are we getting on VM a load of hot air and crap.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

please list the 'loads' of HD programs currently available on Freeview & ITV ??

please explain what you mean by Blu-ray out 'in full' - my Blu-ray player is quite capable of playing 'full' 1080p movies, thanks ???

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009) in HD
 

My understanding was that most programming has been made in HD for several years. That being the case, I would expect that channels such as BBC, ITV etc. and Discovery, History, Nat. Geo. etc. would have huge libraries of HD content. Am I mistaken? Perhaps I'm thinking of widescreen rather than HD. :dunce:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Its good to hear these rumors about HD, but like everyone else here I've heard it all before, especially the one on DS where Jane claims she spoke to a VM-CS person "who told her we'd be getting X, Y and Z HD channels".
Ten of us could ring up CS now and post back ten differing responses from, "there will be no new HD channels ever" to "I guarantee half a dozen new HD channels in the next few weeks".
I'd love to be proved wrong on this but past experience doesn't fill me with confidence.:shrug:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009) in HD
 

The BBC makes very little in HD. You're thinking of widescreen, which they adopted long before digital SD TV became available.

US networks such as Discovery and Nat Geo have been making content in HD for a few years now.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

He means when Blu-ray starts to take over from DVD. I think!

What player you got? I've got a Sony S350.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Its going to be a long time before blu ray takes over DVD. The stats are there is Blu Ray sales are increasing but there isn't a great surge to upgrade as many people don't see the difference.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hi Home alone, I said ' By the time ' and that Freeview and ITV will get HD before VM, and blu ray in full, l thinking in the future, we have so much talk about HD on VM, that is how long it will take. ITV HD for example is already here, Freeview as l understand it, is designing boxes for HD.
VM are only talking HD to keeps it customers.;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Well the guy from virgin said the next 3 months and that was on the 15th dec last year,so we will see before the 15th of march to see if any hd channels arrive.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

yeah,and I remember pressing the text button on my cable box ten years ago and getting "digital text coming soon":D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

All speculation - when you can talk about what is actually available, then I'll listen, as it stands, for current HD you can pay for a new freesat box to get one extra channel (ITV) over the BBC HD on the V+.

Freeview 'designing' new boxes is not providing a current service & will require existing customers to replace their current equipment.

You still haven't explained what you mean by Blu-ray 'in full'.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

You're a patient person - I give up waiting for text after about ten seconds ;)

I hope we don't have to wait ten years fro some more HD on VM

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Fancy putting some money on it happening?

I believe the sky will be full of flying pigs before we see any new HD channels on cable.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hi,

Sorry to ask this question if it has been answered but is Disney Cinemagic free viewing this weekend or is it a permanent part of VM LX tv pack now?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

it will be a free viewing or a bug

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hi Andrew

Where do you find special offer free to view channels on VM website, the only time I have found this kind of info is on Media Boys post 1 or a promotional offer through VM by post.

But at the moment I can watch Disney Cinemagic, so it must be a bug :confused:

Because if i am right there is a £5 monthly charge for Disney Cinemagic

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

If it is a promotional free to view period, they usually put a message on the channel when you switch onto it

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Media boy doesnt get them all, and sometiems they do not advertise it ont here website or anywhere else, as ben said it will be displayed on the channel.

There also is a possiabitly someoen else added it to your package but i aint sure how it could be done though ben might have more ifnormation on that side of things.,

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I asked customer services yesterday the young lady told me there
where a few due next month .

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It must be a bug then, but a very nice one :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

yes but did they actually stat the names of the channels and what dates they will arrive.

CS say anything to anyone, you could ring up again and be told something different

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Customer services will be the last to know about HD channels however Neil did annouce that more HD channels

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

How long has bbc alba stuff been on demand as I noticed a couple of shows on catchup yesterday?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

if i remember likely just over a week or so ;) i cant remmebr when i noticed it, but i believe BBC alba is due to launch soon ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

When will Flaunt ever return!!!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

When Virgin decide to add the channel back on as the deal expired

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I phoned VM CS and they say it is a promotional offer for XL TV customers in certain areas, so I suppose anybody in the Luton area on XL TV enjoy Disney Cinemagic while it lasts.

It would have been nice for VM marketing department to let customers know though:(

PS there was no promotional message when switching onto this channel

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Well if you check the online TV guide- it does list Discovery HD...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It also lists sky hd channels its just a tv listings they jsut add all channels even though we dnt get them. chceck sky tv listigns or digiguife there normally got the lastest chnanel information.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

you are quite right after reading you post, just out of interest i tried
again the young lady today said she did not know of any coming at
the momment , but they have got one bbc hd.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

CS knows very very little the majority of the time they tell you anytihng to get you to stay or sign up. Retentions are even worse. But i will pull down all CS and retentions staff as there is some honest ones out there and they do give truthful informaiton ie informaiton that is available on there intranet. But HD will probally be a big annoucement in the press.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Did not the CEO anounce back in december last year that their would
be 3 or 4 hd channales on virgin media by the end of the first three months of 2009 well there are only 22 days left. wonder if it will turn out right what he said ????
tried chat fuction twice one saying i was a customer got told ring 150, the other time saying i was not a customer, and got told more that way told there where defantly some whould be on vm by the end of this month .(will have to wait and see). it is
funney the more helpfull they are when they think that they will be making a sale

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

CEO annoucing is sometihng different and since he said it then it true to the form that they are trying to add hd channels. but i doubt they will and they have about 50 days left i think there tv section 1st quarter end in april

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Lets put it this way, I live on the main flight path to Heathrow Airport, and they are pretty low, so when l see a pink elephant flying past my house, that is when l believe that HD channels will come to VM, and l mean a lot of them, that is when l believe they will arrive.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I think you will have other tihngs to worry about then ;) but from teh response form some channel provides suggest virgin are actively trying to get hd channels and they will probally be here by 2010 with us seeing the first maybe by summer 09

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hi Andy, I don't know wether you know, but 2010 is seven months away, and there is still no gurrantee that we will get them, that is the reason why so many VM subs are going over to Sky, as VM cannot gurrantee the channels.

We have been hearing talk about this for months, but nothing is happening, VM don't even put out leaflets saying when this is likely to happen, l get leaflets offering deals, but nothing else.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

No they don't put leaflets out because Virgin don't sell the V+ on the basis of HD anymore

Also what would be the point of a leaflet saying 'we don't have much HD at the moment'

It would be the same as Sky going 'our broadband is likely to be very slow where you live'

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Arthur i want a soruce that prove that because the lastest qauter results suggest a increase for virign for v+ users not a decline and most people want it for pvr not hd, but peple do want hd and it will be coming just not when the ceo said it would by end of 09 i say virign will have 2 or 3 hd channel ;) possibaly dnt count me on this if it doesnt happen about 10, by end of 2010 they should have about 8 with the possiable of 14. and if the ofcom review goe sin there favour the sky hd channels

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Indeed.

Just to completely blow Arthur's point out the water, they showed churn was DOWN, from 1.4% in Q4 2007 to 1.2% in Q4 2008 and TV has a decent amount of net additions (44,500 in the quarter) and V+ subscriber numbers also continues to grow (52,800 more in Q4 alone) taking the total to 521,500.

Interestingly in the conference call they made a point to say that churn in V+ users (the very users you'd expect churn to be high in, if they were all leaving for sky HD) is the lowest of all groups.

I'm struggling to see where, other than on forums, there is a mass exodus of people from VM to Sky for HD?

Your average subscriber doesn't really care too much about HD. This is shown by the fact that of Sky's 9 million subscribers less than 600,000 of them have Sky HD. That's less than 6%. If less than 6% of Sky's subscribers care about HD, and many of them will have been people who picked their service because of the availability of HD, how many of VM's do you think do? And even if they do, how many will be willing to give up VOD for it? (Just for a comparison, nearly 52% of users access VOD)

The amount of noise on here about HD is because users on a forum are not your average subscriber, there is always going to be a disproportionate amount of people with issues with the service due to the nature of the forum.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Geez people, if we're going to play the numbers game at least get them right. Sky+ HD numbers are a lot higher than 600,000 as people very well know and this is the nth time people have quoted old figures (perhaps deliberately) to get their point across. 792 000 at last count.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I just quoted the figures from wikipedia as it's the easiest way to get them. If you have more up to date figures with a source go update the page so then I won't have to quote the low figures! I even rounded them up so was highballing the figures I had.

Even if they had 900,000 HD subscribers (they don't) that's still only 10% and the point still stands, more people care about VOD than HD.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Do the last quarter figures include the latest HD offer from Sky, though? I know of at least one person who has switched this quarter because of that.

Although technically I am still a TV customer as I have the free TV with the telephone, so probably won't be counted as leaving.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

the latest figures from Sky are in this thread here based on their last results.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...on-thread.html

It's about 8.4% take up but the total number of V+ and Sky HD users is still only about 1.5 million plus however many are on freesat which shows that the take up isn't that great for HD at the moment

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Freesat is growing fast - up to Christmas they sold about 200,000 units, with 50% of customers polled saying they bought it primarily for HD. That means you can safely conclude that there were at least 100,000 Freesat HD boxes in use by the end of 2008. There are in all likelihood more than that, as it's not going to be just those whose primary interest was HD that bought an HD box.

Not bad, considering the service only launced in May.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

2010 is 9 months away on my calendar ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

...ah but when you have a Tardis. BTW Dr Who special is HD this Easter on BBC HD...

H

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

This weeks update is now online - see post one.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Again, 2010 simply is not good enough.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Why not? that is when freeview hd is meant to start taking off and freesat hd will probally take off why should virign over invest in something that still does not show in having a big support. dnt get me wrong i want hd but i take both sides the people wanting them and virign who have top pay for them. it isnt as simple as oh you say you want hd or lets get it virign have ot have prove form subscriber and they now have 500000-600000 subscribers about 15-20% of there subsriber which now says to them that hd is worthwhile you have to remeber virign ar e abusiness and unless they see figure to say it business sense they wont do it

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

In a way he is right 2010 isnt good enough when we had our v+ on feb 2nd 2007 i was told the ploy hd channels in the next few months two years later and still nothing if they cant deliver they shouldn't mention it.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

that is a different matter, that is cs lying through there teeth to get a sale, whoever did many people realyl honestly think virgin would have as near many hd channels are sky when they signed up? considering sky would want to hold the monolpy?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I have now launch an ''Coming soon'' page for non Virgin viewers @ http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34748291-post1.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I guess it depends on where Virgin believe the future of TV lies and where they as a company want to go... At present VM believe the future is in VOD - i think they are wrong! Most people imo still want the ability to tune in at the same time each week to watch their favourite programmes and increasingly more people want those programmes to be in HD.

Ignore the actual figures for a moment BUT the reason SKY are ever increasing their HD take up is because they have the channels to back it up.

Virgin can quote the use of VOD as much as they like BUT the REASON VOD is being used so much is simply because it's there.... it's not brain surgery - if there were more HD channels then more people would be buying V+ services and if they don't invest in HD then V+ figures won't rise - i've said it before, it's a vicious circle.