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denphone

30-04-2013 17:51

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35566722)

Just having a glance at the weeks listings on TLC and I can see this being added to my favourites certainly a go to channel , a few more shows that stand out are

Extreme Couponing
Last chance salon
17 kids and counting
Jon and Kate plus 8

:omg::omg:

weegiegeek

30-04-2013 18:08

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Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35566508)

Never understood the point of +1 on XL, if the whole point of them is increased revenue with little effort, why then limit the number of possible viewers?

Anyway, good stuff MB.

In these days of on demand, multiple repeats and Tivo, I'm not sure how much point there is in +1 at all. Saying that, it must be easy to carry. All you need is to cache it and run it on a 1 hour delay.

I guess that restricting it to the L and LX packages means they can boast about carrying even more channels on those packages, and people will be fooled by the marketing.

ChrisB74

30-04-2013 18:22

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.

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Originally Posted by johnasimmons (Post 35566693)

From Adrian on the VM forum regarding Animal Planet HD...

Hi all,
Due to technical difficulties, there has been a delay with the launch of Animal Planet HD but I can confirm that the launch will still be going ahead. Unfortunately, at this moment, I am unable to offer a time-frame.
As soon as the launch date arrives, we will make an announcement in this thread
Thanks
Adrian

Lol. Do the project teams who integrate new channels onto their platform ever do any testing! Just fire the whole lot as obviously completely incompetent. 100% record on messing up major HD launches - look good in yearly appraisal!

Bananaman_007

30-04-2013 19:03

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35566722)

Each of those shows has already been broadcast on one of the other Discovery channels, good start for a "new" channel

Mad Max

30-04-2013 19:09

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Extreme Couponing
Last chance salon
17 kids and counting
Jon and Kate plus 8

Please tell me this is a wind-up!!! What a load of absolute tosh!

denphone

30-04-2013 19:29

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.

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Originally Posted by Mad Max (Post 35566756)

Please tell me this is a wind-up!!! What a load of absolute tosh!

Its all in the eye of the beholder but alas its not for me.

jj20x

30-04-2013 20:07

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35566715)

Zing stop broadcasting on Virgin Media in May 2011. http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35203769-post577.html

Wasn't it only on the NTL side of the network?

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Originally Posted by ChrisB74 (Post 35566744)

For it to happen once is just about excusable but a second time? :eek::eek:

BexTech

30-04-2013 20:08

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.

Time to stop worrying about MPEG2 just make all HD channels MPEG4 and ensure customers have MPEG4 capable boxes.

BenMcr

30-04-2013 20:14

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Originally Posted by BexTech (Post 35566780)

Time to stop worrying about MPEG2 just make all HD channels MPEG4 and ensure customers have MPEG4 capable boxes.

TiVo is MPEG4 as is the V HD and the Samsung V+ HD box. By making upgrading attractive, VM ensure that customers move to MPEG4 boxes pretty much as fast as is achieveable

weegiegeek

30-04-2013 20:17

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Originally Posted by BexTech (Post 35566780)

Time to stop worrying about MPEG2 just make all HD channels MPEG4 and ensure customers have MPEG4 capable boxes.

What's that got to do with anything? I'm sure VM have plenty of spectrum to fit in more broadcast channels.

I'm pretty sure VM get their feeds and rebroadcast them, adding Nagra3 etc. I don't think any re-encoding currently occurs, so they'd then need a pretty big setup to re-encode all these MPEG2 feeds to MPEG4. It wouldn't improve the quality, because the original feeds would be the weak link.

It'd be costly in terms of encoding hardware and replacing MPEG2-only boxes. All it'd do was let them fit more channels in, and I doubt they're near capacity right now.

Media Boy UK

30-04-2013 20:21

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Originally Posted by jj20x (Post 35566773)

Wasn't it only on the NTL side of the network?

Was added to Telewest in December 2010. http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35130332-post535.html

jj20x

30-04-2013 20:27

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35566798)

Was added to Telewest in December 2010. http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35130332-post535.html

Thanks, December 2010 to March 2011.. it didn't last for long. ;)

spiderplant

30-04-2013 20:38

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Originally Posted by ChrisB74 (Post 35566744)

Err... the problem was found during testing. If they launched channels without testing them, that would be incompetent.

denphone

30-04-2013 20:53

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Alas SP but you must remember the Jonah's and Cassandra's will never be happy with their lot.:waving::dig:

passingbat

30-04-2013 21:09

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Originally Posted by BexTech (Post 35566780)

Time to stop worrying about MPEG2 just make all HD channels MPEG4 and ensure customers have MPEG4 capable boxes.

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Originally Posted by weegiegeek (Post 35566794)

What's that got to do with anything? .

We'd have more recording capacity on our current boxes.

I mean, with all this unmissable (cough) content on TLC, we're gonna need it :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by jj20x (Post 35566773)

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For it to happen once is just about excusable but a second time? :eek::eek:

And you wonder why VM seem reluctant to pre announce channel launches.

Who can blame them when people moan over something so petty as a few days delay for the odd channel?

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