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Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014

Watching the NHL i have found the picture quality to be ok. Certainly compared to say Universal for example.

Ice Hockey is one sport that cries out to be shown in HD but I have found Premier Sports picture quality fine.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014

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Originally Posted by cityfan247 (Post 35659801)

Yup, not had too many problems with the picture myself. Will miss the NHL when it goes standalone I must admit. :(

A belated "Feliz ano nuevo" to everybody too!!

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35659799)

I was under the impression that Now TV carried a range of live TV channels, including SA. I didn't realise that there were two versions :confused:

There are basically three versions:
- Apple TV: just Sky Sports pass available (£9.99 for 24 hours).
- YouView: just on-demand films available (£8.99 pm all-inclusive pass)
- Roku/Now TV streaming box/games consoles: All services ie both the above two plus the live entertainment channels (currently £4.99pm).

On YouView, Sky separately offers slightly newer films through its on-demand, PPV Sky Store. It only offers films.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35659813)

Thanks for the info. Andrew.

On YouView, can one purchase PPV films on an individual basis, or is it unlimited for £8.99 per month?

How much are the Sky Movie channels on VM for a month? I can't help feeling it will cost more than £8.99 a month! This may be a way for VM Sky Movie customers to save money.

Is it easy to hook up Now TV to complement the VM TV service?

I now see what you mean Andrew. If Sky wish to keep SA off VM, if the rumours of a TiVo app are true, they can restrict the offering to the relevant app.

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The NHL picture quality on Premier is certainly good enough to watch. Hd would obviously be nice, but the standard picture is far from rubbish.

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Originally Posted by andy_m (Post 35659873)

The NHL picture quality on Premier is certainly good enough to watch. Hd would obviously be nice, but the standard picture is far from rubbish.

I would agree completely will watch whilst its free then its bye bye. As much as I like NHL there is nothing else for me on the channel.

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Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35659662)

Could you please expand on that?

No.;)

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Originally Posted by Jimi (Post 35659981)

No.;)

Do you yourself not understand what you meant then? :confused:

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35659835)

Thanks for the info. Andrew.

On YouView, can one purchase PPV films on an individual basis, or is it unlimited for £8.99 per month?

How much are the Sky Movie channels on VM for a month? I can't help feeling it will cost more than £8.99 a month! This may be a way for VM Sky Movie customers to save money.

Is it easy to hook up Now TV to complement the VM TV service?

I now see what you mean Andrew. If Sky wish to keep SA off VM, if the rumours of a TiVo app are true, they can restrict the offering to the relevant app.

Sky Movies on VM is £19.50 in SD or £26.50 in HD.

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Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35659984)

Do you yourself not understand what you meant then? :confused:

Yes.

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Evening everybody. I hope you all had a nice Christmas and New Year (I know it's late, but i've not been here haha)

What's the latest? :)

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Originally Posted by gemma307 (Post 35659792)

At which date veiwing figures on VM take some what of a fall

I doubt it. Most people who know me would say that (amongst other things) I'm a sports fanatic. But there's absolutely nothing of interest on Premier Sports for me. I'm not interested in subscribing to it and I haven't watched whilst it was free. So there will be no change in their viewing figures from me, whilst I continue to watch real premium sports channels all the time.

I did look in when it was announced here on CF, I don't know why, perhaps just to prove to myself that it had appeared. Something obscure was on, and (having an idea of what they offer) I haven't looked since.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35659835)

On YouView, can one purchase PPV films on an individual basis, or is it unlimited for £8.99 per month?

YouView customers can purchase movies individually from the separate Sky Store application on YouView but not from the Now TV application, that's just £8.99 unlimited access. BT and TalkTalk YouView customers can also purchase movies and boxsets from their respective ISPs via YouView.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35659835)

How much are the Sky Movie channels on VM for a month? I can't help feeling it will cost more than £8.99 a month! This may be a way for VM Sky Movie customers to save money.

Is it easy to hook up Now TV to complement the VM TV service?

As indicated elsewhere, it would be less than half price to use Now TV for movies v Sky Movies. However, Now TV doesn't have all the movies that Sky Movies shows. For example, Spider Man 2 is showing on Sky SciFi/Horror at the moment but it's not yet available via Now TV's on-demand service.

Others on this forum have hooked up the Now TV box to complement their VM TV services quite easily.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35659835)

I now see what you mean Andrew. If Sky wish to keep SA off VM, if the rumours of a TiVo app are true, they can restrict the offering to the relevant app.

I don't think VM would be keen on selling another way to access live channels, I think VM would be the barrier here, not Sky. For one thing, it confuses customers. The all-inclusive on-demand movies-only offering should be more acceptable for Virgin.

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I would suspect the Spiderman 2 issue is probably a rights issue , possibly signed before Now TV's launch.

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Very interesting, thanks for the info. guys :)