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What nine months after tests appear?

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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34208662-post49.html

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...-in-exntl.html

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thanks for answer guys

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just got this reply on twitter after I asked if any news on extra sky sports HD channel launch

Virgin Media ‏@virginmedia · 33s
@Safc42 Hi David, We're looking at early summer. Keep a eye out here http://goo.gl/BVLJWx . MPK

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:tiptoe:

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Hey Dave,

Who decides when "SUMMER" is though?

Technically are we not in summer already? BST!
Or is it the time of year....Jun, July, Aug?
Or the school summer holidays maybe?

summer is not a specific time frame lol....VM do like to tease us

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summer officially starts 21st june so after then it launch will be my guess

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Is that summer 2014?

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ahhh I forgot about that one...

I don't think we will hear anything now until they do launch...unless MB manages to bag some info

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Someone did PM me early this week and said Summer for Sky Sports HD and Early 2015 for both Sky Sports News HD and Sky News HD.

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Lets guess.;):D

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Maybe its http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f06QZCVUHg :D

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:nono::naughty:

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i live for the day we get rid of generic timescales like "autumn this year" "early this summer"

JUST SAY

"BETWEEN JUNE AND JULY OR WHATEVER"

sorry i'm shouting in capital letters

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;):Yes::no::spin:

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Just been given an update by an Virgin Insider.

Cant reveal info but will say more when I can.

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A slightly confused view of what actually happened when Freeview started. Actually, the BBC / Crown Castle bid for the multiplexes had originally pencilled in a channel made up of CNN / TCM and Boomerang, this channel never happened. Presumably, carriage terms for this channel weren't agreed.

CBM was owned by a Midlands based media company, not by Turner, and carried a placeholder on Freeview for a number of months. CBM had planned to include a strand from Bloomberg in their content. After several months, the channel failed to appear and Crown Castle cancelled the contract with CBM. CBM subsequently announced plans for another Freeview channel with free sports content, which also failed to appear.

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I would love to have True Movies 2 on VM, as well as True Drama - these are FREE channels. I cannot see it though.

Not the way VM treats its customers. They will take channels off to accomdate them.

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Ah good work MB. I love the anticipation with these!

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So tell me if you can get BT Sports free on Sky Arthur and the answer to that is no unless you want to pay £15 more.

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Thanks for the info. It did seem odd that they would jump the gun and allow a placeholder before terms had even been agreed!

I use a Free To Air (FTA) satellite box for anything I want to see on a FTA channel not on VM, though I do feel that one shouldn't need to.

I believe that a TiVo offering that comprises of all Freeview and Freesat channels would be a popular service.

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Updated list of channels rumoured to be coming in 2014 to Virgin Media.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/p...y-come-to.html

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What's movie max never heard of it history hd and natgeo hd will be good for me

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Let me add mine. Welcome to CF, Ultimate Conj! Several rumoured channels to be launching on VM over the coming months including the long awaited Sky Sports HD channels!

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look forward to the news when you can say MB :)

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Depends if they follow the meteorological summer then they could launch anytime from June 1st

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If I was running Sky, I wouldn't let VM have the channels until after the World Cup to be honest. Events like the World Cup are huge sellers for HD television and if a punter wanted to finally bite the bullet and get HD, which service looks better right now?

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didnt they say a year ago a channel (i cant remember what one) was due to launch by spring and i just remember posts on here saying "isnt spring now over technically?" and people giving definitions of spring.

I think basically VM say things like "by summer" and dont follow any definition but it gives them basically a 3 month period to do whatever they want and then can keep referring people back to the "by summer" tagline.

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But I thought that only BBC and ITV had the live rights to games, both of which offer HD anyway (free, or if not free, certainly at a substantial reduction of what sports and HD sub would be anyway), so SKY Sports in HD would not be much of a deal breaker for those wanting World Cup games in HD. And anyway, I imagine any World Cup games SKY show would be on the already available HD sports channels, 1 and 2.

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Yes, looking at Wiki the live broadcasting rights are for BBC and ITV only, so there will only be highlights on SKY.

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I wonder if any tv companies will fill the void left by ESPN Classic in the near future? Pitch International Ltd hold quite a few rights and produced plenty of programs for ESPN, Maybe there is a gap in the market for them to produce a TV channel in the near future.......

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Sky Sports don't have the rights to the World Cup at all. All live games and highlights are on BBC and ITV.

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It was a quality channel ESPN classic no idea why they shut it down to be honest. The quality of the shows went down a bit near the end but still a lot of good stuff.

I'd imagine BT and sky would go for the programs but i can't see BT myself as they're more pre occupied with their live rights which is why they shut down espn classic.

Sky sports classic would be a great channel though. Does anyone know if sky sports keep the right to show all their old football matches from the early 90s or do they revert back to the premier league after the contract is up? Sky would have so much stuff from classic football matches etc. If they made a channel entirely for F1 surely sky sports classic is a possibility...it'll probably be $ly exclusive though

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So, I'm back from holiday... What have I missed?

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ESPN's European TV operations shut down completely so that's why the three ESPN channels: ESPN Classic, ESPN America and ESPN UK closed. BT took up ESPN's rights and licensed the brand for a new ESPN channel.
With the popularity of services like YouTube, I think ESPN Classic also suffered from declining viewing figures.

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Afternoon all,

Hey MB - Is it news we are going to like?

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Have long have you been away? :)

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;)

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Found this in the Digital Spy dedicated forum for all things Virgin Media:

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1803564

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lets all hope so :)

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Do you know something as well Den? ;)

Spill the beans....I won't tell anyone :D

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My source may of got some new information today about history hd, they are trying to confirm it before revealing it to me.

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l had a look into Chads reliable crystal ball last night and the portends are good.:)

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Do you think we are likely to see the views of Monaco in high definition?
Or is there something else on the horizon?

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Perhaps the one after maybe.

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That would make it the Canadian Grand Prix around 8th June...I guess that could be classed as "early summer", no? ;)

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The start of summer for me starts on the 1st of June.

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Looks like the starter pack is getting renamed to "the big easy bundle" as i just renewed my starter pack and got reciept saying "big easy bundle"

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Does anyone know if the VIP pack is likely to be changed at all?
My contract is up in August. I'm not going to leave VM, but maybe I can get a better deal ;)

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cheer richard i know sony movies

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hope you get it confimed about time we had HD history

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summer starts 21st june Den

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I'm going to save a small fortune. Check out my latest post in News Section. "Virgin Media launch 'first true quad-play' bundles".

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Yes our contract is up later this year and we shall be looking for a more enhanced deal from Virgin.

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Not in a meteorological sense it ain't dear chap.:)

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When does Virgin deem it to be Summer though? That's they main point. It's going to be totally different to what us mere human beings think :angel:

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4 days away in the New Forest so had no internet :(

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BomberAF tried to hi-jack Media Boy HQ....this didnt go down too well as there was a hat-eating competition being held by the BT Sports fans :p:

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So haven't missed much then reading the last few pages... I thought everything was going to happen while I was away lol

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Yeah its been quiet mate.
Sports hd channels are on their way, but no definite date yet.

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we got to wait to summer to get the channels so least you back for that :LOL:

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lol cheers! :D

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Is there any info when the sky basic channels will be added to the TV Anywhere app?

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I'm not entirely convinced that the Movie Max, referred to by MB, has any connection with Movie Mix on Freeview. In any event, it appears from Cellcast's press release, that Cellcast have sold the rights to their Movie Mix channel to Sony. In which case, I would expect the Freeview channel to morph into More>Movies at some point.

http://www.cellcast.tv/html/news/arc...27-03-14b.aspx

Further to the above: The Ofcom licence for this channel now lists "Media Mix (UK) Limited" as the licensee and contacts have changed from Square 1 Management to Sony Pictures Europe House.

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A new shopping channel may be starting on VM:

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...2k10;35698754]

[Looks like the starter pack is getting renamed to "the big easy bundle" as i just renewed my starter pack and got reciept saying "big easy bundle"[/QUOTE]

When VM started they said that, to keep things simple, they were only going to have M, L and XL TV packages. As time went on they had to change strategy in order to offer more products, like M+.

Looks like LG are set to scrap this system entirely and go back to naming packages in the more traditional manner.

Thanks for the extra info/insight.

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Good research. Movie Max looks to be a Dutch DVD postal rental service. www.moviemax.nl

In other news, the German version of Universal Channel is now coming to sister UPC companies in Austria and Switzerland. Knowing LGI's intentions to standardise content, is this an indication that Universal Channel HD may be on its way to VM soon?http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2014/...d-switzerland/

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Yes, I saw that site but preferred not to speculate. Considering VMs policy of making third party content available through TiVo, this would, however, seem more likely than the Freeview connection.

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Oh dear, let's hope not. ;)

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The 21st june is the summer solstice not the start of summer.

Traditionally summer is June, July and August

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I hope History HD launches soon for you guys. A show like Vikings deserves to seen in HD.

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According to the met office summer is those months, but traditionally, summer is the period between the summer solstice, 21st June, and the autumn equinox, 22nd September.

More importantly, both are after Monaco!

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Do we know for definate that LG intend to standardise their cable offerings?

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I must admit that I very rarely watch them, but they can be useful for some people eg the disabled.

Those that can't wait until the new channel launches can countdown here :D

http://www.outletchannel.tv/

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Maybe I've cottoned onto something. Smallworld are having an overhaul on June 2nd. It may be a mammoth of a task but what are the odds of VM launching the new sky sports channels then?

Just a thought. :-)

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Possibly useful to the disabled but for the moment this is a channel, proposing to provide only 1 hour of programming for 2 nights a week as an opt-out of another shopping channel. The Mall itself doesn't even have a 24/7 broadcasting schedule.

It's a tad optimistic for a channel, only providing 2 hours of output per week, to be suggesting that they hope to expand to Freeview and Virgin Media. There's a lot of other shopping channels on Sky, the first hurdle they have to clear is actually being noticed. It remains to be seen whether or not they will stand out from the crowd.

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Considering the relatively small size of Smallworld compared to VM as a whole, it wouldn't really make sense to schedule new channel launches around whatever is happening there.

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Vikings great show. Brutal. Did you see the Blood Eagle scene. Yuk :(

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Yeah, that was pretty grim. Not a good way to go at all!

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If my memory is correct, Media Boy advised that this is LGI's intention. Whilst I've not seen anything from LGI itself, I've not looked for it. It makes commercial sense to me.

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The Content Acquisition teams are already merged, but shared content only makes sense for markets with similar culture and language, e.g. UK/Ireland, Germany/Austria/Switzerland, and Belgium/Netherlands.

I can't see much call for Romanian channels in Puerto Rico ;)

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Sirius on Dspy has posted this A channel called Forces TV is testing.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=1259

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Sound interesting, army channel? or do virgin use code names

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Could be this then http://www.bfbs.com/tv/

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Could be that tricky, but would be able to show all that it offers the forces here in the UK.

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Aye, they are being rather optimistic aren't they!

That's what I was thinking. Maybe MB meant standardisation between VM, UPC and Smallworld?

Interesting, they did say that some content would be cable exlusive. BFBS radio is on DAB, don't think it's on VM though.

I do wonder if the TV version will be encrypted to all but forces personnel though. An ex army person once told me that (due to rights issues) there were large notices outside the TV recreation room stating that non army employees were forbidden from watching the channel dedicated to the armed forces.

Our own Sirius and Hugh are ex forces, I wonder if they or any other members who are ex military can confirm this?

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Indeed. Obviously rights issues are a stumbling block to pan-European channels.
I was thinking that if they get eg Universal Channel HD Germany for the German-speaking countries then they would get a better deal on eg Universal Channel HD in English for UK, Ireland.

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Any more news on any new channels coming this week or next week?

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Doubt it would be bfns as they show live premier league football, along with other sports

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Information TV on Sky and Freesat shows British Forces News at 6.30 daily so maybe the new channel will just do this and LGI is providing carriage on a non-commercial basis?
http://www.information.tv/News/?NewsId=60

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They are a charity, but pay their way. Any profits are used to help in the welfare provision of forces personnel.

Of course, it could be on a non-commercial basis as you say eg if LG have been caught up in the 'Help For Heroes' campaign or are doing it as a PR exercise.

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Given that I've read the government are struggling to recruit as many 'territorial' replacements for 'full time' forces personnel as they want. Isn't this more likely to be a recruitment channel?

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Never thought of that, it could be yes.

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So let me get this straight VM are going to launch an "army channel" for one hour a night which will just be a looping advert?

christ we're scrapping the barrel here arent we with channel launches!

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Morning All,

hahah I couldnt agree with you more, Vince

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Don't say the C word we will end up with a new channel that broadcasts for a hour on a Sunday morning.

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Oh dear Vince is one unhappy man now.:)

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any channel launching this week

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Nothing as far as i know mate.

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:nono:

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Do anyone know if VM are still trying to incorporate Netflix into their TV packages?

Would be great if there were still trying to broker a wholesale deal.

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Still hoping for f1 HD by the of the week so can watch Monaco.

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That would be awesome. I thought maybe Virgin would push for this date as it's a popular race to watch, even amongst some non die-hard F1 fans

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No new channels are set to launch this week.

Some unconfirmed things may happen.;)

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I don't think they've ever intended to do this.

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When are you hoping to the Infor tobe confirmed

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Ah...I must have mis-read the articles a few months ago. Never mind, thanks for clearing it up :)