Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

......the bigger picture to this is there are a lot of people with far too much time on their hands.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

:D:D

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I haven't a clue ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

I have been told tonight that the new BBC HD channels may launch by end of year.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

Great stuff!

Any news about Sky Sports F1HD and Sky Sports 3 and 4 HD?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

No updates.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

Media Boy I saw you saying you were considering changes to "coming soon" next year. Rather than be bound by dates, ie. changing every 3 months, what about changing when a certain number of pages are reached? That way if nothing is happening there'll be no need to start a new thread, even if that takes a few months.

Also, how good do you reckon your info is that Netflix will be in xl? I know you've said it's just a rumour.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

Noticed that iTV 2, 3 and 4 are broadcasting in dolby digital pretty sure this was not the case. Yet iTV still continues to broadcast in PCM.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

Thanks for your views.

Will think about it.

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20/80 will happen.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

It must be target practice, he's had a quiet period. :p:

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On this day (One off post):

-2003: NTL and Telewest both launch Sky Sports Xtra (Sky Sports 4) for the first time ever.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.
 

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that Netflix, will definitely be bundled with the XL package.

Why? Because it would be stupid of Virgin not to try and get this service in to its flagship package. And if they did try, it would be idiotic of Netflix to refuse to do a deal.

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I remember seeing Lovefilm (on Watchdog I think It was) and their agents had been lying about the terms and conditions for the first free month and the cancellation policy.

The programme also exposed Lovefilm as employing tactics to try to stop or delay customers from cancelling.

To be fair, this was at least a year ago, so things might have improved since.

I suspect that like, for example, ESPN, Netflix have worked out that it is more profitable and less exposed to customer churn to have a small cut of every XL fee, than to have a relatively small number of standalone subscribers.

Other benefits include better advertising revenue (if Netflix does have advertising) and income from customers (like myself) who would not think to subscribe to an online subscription service.

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Last time I cancelled from Lovefilm, I was on the phone to the agent for a good half hour trying patiently to cancel.

In the end, I had to tell him that my reasons for cancelling were nothing to do with him and put the phone down - most unlike me!

I still get letters and emails begging me to return at favourable rates

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This goes completely against what was on the Virgin website earlier in the week which said 6 months free when you sign up to XL.

The 6 months free offer also ties in with what happened with they Spotify deal.