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The only one I can think of is it's in the contract for the programming and they get it cheaper because there is limitations.

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Is The Wind And The Willows stage musical from the Ultra HD channel meant to be available to lower packages On-Demand or is my box mistaken with it saying Included In Package?

Re: Changes to Virgin TV (2020)
 

Yes, the UHD version is Full House / Maxit TV customers only, but the HD version is available to all customers.

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Thanks.

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still no credit on this months bill not happy :(

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Just to be clear, in order to receive a credit to your account you first need to submit a request to pause Sky Sports and/or BT Sport via https://www.virginmedia.com/help/thi...ing/talk-to-us.

If you’ve already done that then just ignore me :D

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I told people that on another forum, and they insist it will be done automatically.
:dunce:

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I don't think they can adjust the monthly payments by so much without an agreement from both sides - hence the request being required.

VM, Sky and BT platforms are all doing the credits for lost sports - but all by request only.

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Keep checking your My Virgin Media and if the credit has not been applied then contact them Dave.

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A Free-To-View for Liverpool FC TV according to JJ20X on Forum Box.

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According to my EPG on my box programming will resume at 9am tomorrow and seeing its in white text its most definitely FTV.

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QVC look set to close QVC Style soon on Virgin Media and using slot for QVC +1.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your...cences/updates

Source: Ofcom

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:bigcry::bigcry::bigcry:or not, as the case may be

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Not!

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Thought it might be :)

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Looking a few minutes ago it seems its not FTA at all.

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It was free one day only. Yesterday was the 31st anniversary of the Hillborough disaster.

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and had no scheduled programming.

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History To Rebrand As Sky History On May 27th, Launches Of Sky Documentaries & Sky Nature Set For Same Date.

https://www.tvwise.co.uk/2020/04/his...FN9-kKmeNqjr2Y

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Cheers.


I'm on the Full House bundle and have got the discount for BT Sport (confirmed by email and showing on my account today).

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got my email and credit now

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Another 17 free channels for customers on lower packages:
https://www.virginmedia.com/corporat...-for-customers

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Did you apply to pause or was it done automatically?

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You have to apply for the BT Sport and Sky Sports credits.

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i applied

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Thanks, I was just checking because there has been some confusion:
Thanks for the reply.

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Lots of free channels for people on lower tiers. I got a credit for BT Sport on Max It TV so not complaining.

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According to https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2020...annel-line-up/ at the bottom of the page

Virgin Media is also offering one free movie for each one purchased via its transactional VOD service until May 6. Films available include Judy, Downton Abbey, The Lion King, Frozen II, LE Mans 66, Knives Outand The Joker.

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I applied. I quoted the wrong post earlier, I meant to quote this one below.

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I got a deal for the ultimate oomph bundle for £92 with an extra tivo am I still able to get the sports channels paused

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Not if this deal was done recently.

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Was September last year 0

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In that yes you can pause both BT Sport and SkySports and save £36.25 whilst there is no sport. It doesn't affect your discounts or the length of the contract

Re: Changes to Virgin TV (2020)
 

I got a discount deal on Maxit last August, and was able to pause BT Sport just fine.

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Thanks

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Virgin Media remove SIX unkown channels from network.

Media Boy HQ has found that Virgin Media UK has removed SIX unknown channels from the network since sometime on Friday to Monday Night.

We feel they will be axe Discovery and A&E SD Channels.

Source: Total Services via TiVo.

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You might be right there MB.

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So you mean the linkages that allow you to watch recordings from channels that have already been removed months ago?

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We did found that Virgin Media did remove 4 more unknown channels from network on Monday. But we seen today that Forum Box is reporting that Universal Channel +1, Universal Channel, Pop Power and Universal Channel HD was removed.

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My Virgin TV Edit email states My5 and Pluto TV apps are available but they're not on my V6 yet. Any news about the MTV Play app announced last year?

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The TV Edit webpage suggests not only My5 and Pluto, but All4 too.
https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-t...virgin-tv-apps

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Not showing on my box yet.

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Nor on our box either as maybe there was a unexpected hitch or something else perhaps.

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The VM TV Edit page about this has now been updated. They've removed references to My5, Pluto and All4!

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Strange that as why put it in there in the first place.

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It's good news if All 4 and My5 are finally being added to Virgin TV, joining the existing BBC iPlayer and ITV Hub apps. It's pretty poor that it's taken this long to add them considering they've been on Freeview Play for many years.

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Not everyone has ITV Hub, Scotland has STV Player but the other ITV channels are still via Virgin Media's On-Demand systems.

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I think they simply jumped the gun! Nice to think this is just around the corner.

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l suspect a price rise is just around the corner too OB.;)

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Oafcourse it is VM love charging for content that is free expect a £5p/m+ price rise very soon.

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With most channels only showing repeats,as there is a lack of new series being filmed because of the virus, it will be very difficult for Virgin to justify a price increase this year.

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Can anybody really see drama's,soaps,etc being filmed anytime in the near future?.Every actor/character social distancing,no touching,face masks,maybe gloves.Not to be too pessimistic it means tons of repeats which will put the bbc in pole position!.

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Coronation Street bosses plan return to filming as episodes are running out

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Well they can composite many scenes. Film it once for every actor and combine them all. Won't work for everything, obviously scenes where touching is required won't work.

There's an infamous scene in the final The Good Wife where they made a scene like this. They said for scheduling reasons, but there were long standing reports that the two actors didn't get along.

Orphan Black had the same actor up to 7 or 8 times in some scenes as they were all played by the same person. They did this in every episode for every series.

The current show Devs (BBC2) has a variation for reasons I won't go into for fear of spoiling anything.

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There's not much new stuff on over the summer months anyway. We won't really start to notice the impact of delayed filming until the autumn.

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Yes, one ray of sunshine - we shouldn't be getting the rash of reality shows this year;)

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And given that quite a few new series are filmed in spring and summer for the Autumn and Winter season there will be a impact l would imagine.

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No but you might get a full re-run of the old ones though.;)

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Well that's a bonus......:D

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MB Blog: Look like Sky are set to move SYFY, E!, Challenge and Pick from May 27th.

https://mediaboyblog.blogspot.com/20...-work-out.html

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Just put the 1970s and 1980s classic corrie on itv1. apparently itv executives were surprised at how well classic corrie did on itv 3 in terms of ratings. probably because it wasnt trash like the current product. "oh look another mass murderer...oh look another strong couple with an adultery storyline out of nowhere..."

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What a load of unsubstantiated nonsense.

Nothing has been said about Sky moving their existing entertainment channels around the EPG on VM.

Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature are both factual channels, so it's likely that they would both be in the factual section of the EPG (245 onwards).

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I agree regarding Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature being in Factual number range. Virgin Media have shown no indication of getting rid of their number ranges for categories.

One of the two channels is getting SyFy's number on Satellite, as Sky have said so, but of course Sky mixed up many of their Factual/Lifestyle channels into General Entertainment a while back (making a complete mess of their EPG IMHO).

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Have we had any confirmation about the 3 new sky channels? Theyre to launch end of May i hear? History rebrands to sky history so should remain on virgin media? Are sky documentary and sky nature replacing existing channels? have they been confirmed to be arriving on virgin media?

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No mention of History 2 in the Sky Press Pack, so wouldn't be surprised if Docs or Nature replaced that.
https://www.skygroup.sky/article/sky...els-press-pack

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Sky History 2 was mentioned when this was first revealed. Given what happened to Sky Arts 2 though it will probably be short lived. They are probably just keeping A+E onside.

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Sky History 2 is mentioned in the ads run on History & H2 presently

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They should move H2 content onto Syfy where it belongs.

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Gah! Nooooo! That would be a serious quality drop.

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Is Sky set to launch an new Cinema Channel?

Ofcom has confirmed on their web site that they have given an new broadcasting Licence for an channel called "Sky Cinema Animation"

We think Sky Cinema Premiere +1 EPG slot will be use for Sky Cinema Animation.
Still not seen any confirmed news from Sky on the launch date for Sky Cinema Animation.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your...cences/updates

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Some Sky channels did move to new channels late last year when Sky Crime launch.

Sky has revealed that SYFY slot on Sky will be use for Sky Documentaries.

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TV Channel List.com is reporting the following is set to move on Sky from May 27th:

EPG (Sky HD only) > Channel name > New EPG from May 27th
114 > Syfy HD > 152
N/A > Sky Documentaries HD > 114
123 > E! HD > 151
130 > History HD (Sky History HD) > 123
N/A > Sky Nature HD > 130
154 > Challenge > 160
152 > Pick > 159
196 > Sky History 2 HD (HD Channel new to Sky) > 163
214 > Syfy +1 >252
230 > History +1 (Sky History +1) > 223
251 > Challenge +1 > 260

That why the story last Sunday was posted on Media Boy Blog for.

https://mediaboyblog.blogspot.com/20...-work-out.html

Also TV Channel list.com is reporting that ViacomCBS will temporary rename MTV OMG:

May 29th - MTV 00s
June 22nd - MTV Pride
June 29th - MTV OMG

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Sky Cinema Animation was licensed only a few months ago as a temp name and reverted to Superheros

I would be surprised to see them add a further linear Cinema channel it will most likely be a further temp rebrand.

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Baby TV has been promoted up Sky’s EPG following the closure of Disney XD+1. Wonder if VM will follow suit and place Baby TV alongside the Disney Channel.

https://www.rxtvlog.com/2020/05/baby...-list.html?m=1

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I notice on BBC 2 HD from a week on Sunday it says Channel No Longer Available
Maybe a technical change or something.

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No need. Baby TV is already on 703, which is the 3 highest EPG number in the Children's section. The next Disney-owned service, XD, is at 707.

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BBC2 HD here in England is fine - maybe the are switching something over as you may still get the listings for BBC2 Scotland (even though it doesn't exist anymore).

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Possibly as I noticed with the recent EPG logo change it actually says BBC2 Scotland HD which doesn't (and never) exists

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BBC Four channel likely to be axed by the corporation.

https://www.cityam.com/bbc-four-face...-19-shortfall/

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18...d-corporation/

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never saw the rationality of BBC 4 since it was basically just BBC 2 (again). BBC1 was the mainstream channel. BBC 2 the sort of educational/high brow channel and bbc 3 the young people channel.

cannot for the life of me understand why they gutted the youngster channel and kept bbc 4 when all their shows could have been aired on bbc2 in theory.

Part of me cynically thinks since 2010 a lot of conservative members have been put on the bbc board....and yet in my eyes the bbc news department has been rather pro tory especially with laura kussenberg. But then again a lot of people on social media say its biased to labour which ive never thought in the slightest but hey ho its the social media world ripping the world apart with "he said, she said" interpretations and to be brutally honest i can't be bothered anymore ...

i think either way a public broadcaster dying is a bad thing but neither do i agree with how its been run. the danger is letting the fox in the pen though and now we will have money men running all the channels portraying what they want to be known ala fox news.

which btw never launched on virgin media sadly for the comedy value

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Given from what l have read and that BBC 2 is full of repeats l suspect quite a lot of the content will end up on there and on BBC 3.

Personally l enjoy some of the BBC 4 content myself.

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Thats a question that can only be answered by them Vince as personally l would have not got rid of the youth channel.

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Lets not get into the politics of it as there are enough threads on this forum on politics methinks.;)

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Well hopefully the BBC will never become the UK equivalent of Fox News Vince as l still think they do a good job given the circumstances.

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With 'polls' like the below Den, let's hope the BBC don't become like Fox.

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2020/05/4.jpg

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Channel Update slates (currently hidden) have now been assigned to channels 278 - 284 and 298 so an indication that the block of lifestyle channels may shortly be on the move.

I assume this is because VM need to make room for 4 new channels at the end of the Documentaries section (Sky Documentaries HD, Sky Documentaries, Sky Nature HD and Sky Nature).

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There's gaps in the Factual channel numbering at 248-249, 253-255 and 262-264. Assuming the new Sky channels take up 4 (2 HD, 2 SD) and the existing channels don't want jumped over, I can see a reorganising of this and a knock-on reorganisation of Lifestyle after. Though the slates for Lifestyle appearing first seems odd if it was that.

Another possibility is Lifestyle may be merged into General Entertainment numbering or moved closer as the 231-244 range is empty.

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If all the existing channels in the Documentaries section were also set to move as you suggest, then I think slates would have been set up for them too. Its more likely that the 4 new Sky channels will just be added to the end of the section, in line with the EPG listing policy.

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That was what I was getting at in the last sentence of that paragraph. :)

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The 'updated' May versions of the Channel Guide PDFs have been published, and as none of the mistakes have been corrected, I think the only change they have made is the month!

https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-t...-channel-guide

Desktop:
https://www.virginmedia.com/content/...de_May2020.pdf

Mobile:
https://www.virginmedia.com/content/...le_May2020.pdf

It's got the wrong channel number for Prime Video. It's on 205, not 228.

Sony Crime Channel on 193 is missing.

Comedy Central HD and MTV HD are now included in Mix and Fun, so should have a tick in columns 2 and 3.

Discovery HD and Animal Planet HD are now included in Fun, so should have a tick in column 3.

Nat Geo WILD is no longer on 264, only the HD version exists on 265.

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It might have already been posted on this thread but the Desi App pack is available to all at no extra cost until the 4th July.

https://www.virginmedia.com/corporat...-no-extra-cost

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Yay just what i always wanted. :rolleyes:

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Totally incompetent as per usual.

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glad you have nothing more to worry about. and why should anyone using virgin be worried about it is a puzzle to me !

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Jj20x has reported this on Forumbox:

‘The overnight changes show that the hidden channel update slates have been assigned to channels 278 to 284 and channel 298 - so an indication that VM's block of lifestyle channels may shortly be on the move to new slots. According to the scanner's notes, the slates are not yet visible, so no indication of where the channels are moving to’.

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We were discussing it from post number 579. Easily missed though.

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Virgin Media has got more then 14 channels free in the Entertainment area to put the Lifestyle channels into.

Channels numbers Free as of May 17th (UK Wide):

163.
188.
206.
210.
215.
217.
218.
221.
223.
224.
225.

So any sister channel around that area can be put beside it brother channel.

163. S4C HD (Beside BBC Channels - moved from channel 166.)
166. An Sky branded channel
188. Sony Channel
189. Sony Channel +1
206. An Sky branded channel
210. Blaze (Moved from Channel 216.)
215. Food Network
216. HGTV
217. Home & Health
218. Discovery Shed
219. Travel Channel
220. Vice (Moved from Channel 219.)*
221. HGTV +1
223. Home & Health +1
224. God Channel
225. Horse + Country

*Or Virgin can put Travel Channel on Channel 220 to keep Vice on Channel 219.

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I’m surprised Virgin haven’t done what Sky has and put all entertainment, factual and lifestyle channels into one section titled ‘general entertainment’.

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Look like something will happen on or around May 27th when Sky Documentaries, Sky History, Sky History 2 and Sky Nature launch.

We will know more this coming Tuesday (May 19th) when the TV Listings books will be out at your local shops and Supermarkets.

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Base on TiVo listings Love Nature HD is still broadcasting on May 27th.

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That would be hideous in my opinion. I can't find anything easily on the Sky EPG, the numbering is a mess.

Re: Changes to Virgin TV (2020)
 

I agree. I don't want a jumbled up mess of an EPG like on Sky. The current genres on VM should be maintained, it's much easier to navigate.

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And besides, Sky's programming boss said recently that they recognise the importance of distinct genres and that was why they were launching new factual channels, so viewers can find documentaries more easier on their EPG.

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You have nothing to worry about because you don't pay for your VM services!

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Virgin Media UK has confirmed that HUM MASALA will stop broadcasting via the Red Button on Virgin UK Channel 833 from June 6th.

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Agreed

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And you are leaving soon ! Yes I do pay for a number properties that have virgin. But l really can not see why any one else with virgin would worry about such a silly thing ,unless they can't get attention any other way .So sad , Just looking forward to the day when liberty really take control. And then change the box for everyone from TiVo to theres

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Stealing VM TV services has the potential to affect every employee and customer of VM.

We'll have to wait and see what will happen to the TiVo & Horizon boxes following the merger with O2.