Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

1 day to go then! Will there or won;t there be some announcement of some sort????

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

one day to what!!!:confused:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Can't we just end the sky vs virgin talk?

If you want quality HD goto Sky and if you want the same free channels you've had forever (but hardly watched) stick around because Virgin will soon have them in HD.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

ZEE Muzic to be rebranded 'Zing'.

ZEE Network's music channel, ZEE Muzic, will be undergoing a major revamp in India and will be rebranded Zing from April.

The new look will be unveiled later this week in India with changes expected in the UK in weeks to come.

Zee Music is shown on Virgin Channel 811 in Ex-ntl areas.

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http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsar...uzic_to_be.php

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Didn't Berkett promise us all 4 new HD channels by the end of March or some such? If they don't all arrive by tomorrow, then the man is an even bigger liar than we thought.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Jacqui smith says thare should be some porn HD channels coming soon on vm,as the standard of picture her husband had to put up with was scandulous for a fiver,so she is urging ofcom to rule on that very quickly indeed.:D:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

LOL:gpoint:
ps: as long as we dont get jacqui smith in an hd porn our eyes will be safe

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Yep your right moroboshi have a look, also at the bottom there is even a reference to Cable Forum.:)

http://vmhd.blogspot.com/2008/12/ber...annels-on.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

12:15 pm and nothing.... this really isn't going to happen is it LOL... not EVEN Chnl4 or ITV HD...which would be better than nowt.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

If it was going to happen today we'd of heard something from the VM PR department. Plus the channels would already be on the EPG but displaying a message like the Sky ones last November.

If the HD channels appear today I'll eat my hat.

P.S. I don't own a hat so I'd have to go buy one before eating it! :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

If the HD channels appear today I'll buy you a hat...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I know it's not that important and i shouldn't care but i feel really let down. Now even "Coming Soon" means nothing and for those who just say "Go to Sky!" well that's not really the point (even though i actually can't move).

It's about being able to trust a company who says it will do something and then doesn't and THEN won;t even have the good grace to mention WHY they haven't done it. There is nothing. Silence on the issue.

If we can't trust them on this, that lack of trust filters down into simple things like getting your bill correct (lol) or fixing your TV (lol) or getting the red button to work (lololol).

It look shabby, inefficient, backward and untruthful.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

i'll buy everyone on page48 of this thread a hat if VM added ITVHD and Channel4HD today!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I don't think milliners will be doing much business today then ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I thought this thread was 'coming soon to virgin' and not HD chat?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Today was the deadline VMs CEO gave for the arrival of 3 or 4 HD channels, you can't get much closer to "coming soon" than that.:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

^^ What He Said!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Maybe they are working on it.
Must admit though we had to have our v+ swapped yesterday due too a ticking harddrive and the engineer rung me 20 mins before to say he was on his way but what made me giggle was he said so i will be coming soon seems vm now pump there sayings in to their techs.:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

poor Virgin :( everyones always moaning about them! They arent putting HD on because they cannot tell the difference when their eyes are filled with tears!

shame on you, shame on you all ;)
:monkey:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

For the most part i think they are a great company and have said as much on other threads, but this is really letting them down.

I so feel shamed.... but not as much as My Burkett should....

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I doubt Mr Burkett gives a damn about what people want or even what he said before.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

LOL ah well... looks like he played a blinding April Fools Joke on us... indeed he planned it since last December...that takes some going eh!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

No hat eating for me! :) but :(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I know :( I guess we all DIDN'T see it "Coming Soon" but feel the let down anyway...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Oh well, I guess another CEO of a large organisation has taken months to produce...well nothing!

Fair play to him, paid lots of money for doing nothing - I wouldn't take that away from anyone but I am paying for this service and I WAS SOLD HD when I took on VM.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Up to four more linear high definition channels will launch on Virgin Media's digital cable service over the next few months, Digital Spy was told today.


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...sed-on-hd.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

They said this 3.5months ago, why on earth should we believe them now? They already have the rights for channel4hd. Just wish there was more competition than just virgin over cable, i'd love to swap providers, but its 1 big monopoly now, virgin own nearly every cable company, 2 monopolies, sky and virgin and pretty much no-one else.

Bt cant compete as adsl is too slow to deliver lots of hd content, looks like the consumer's will be dictated too for many years to come.

We should be able to get our money back for them missing their 3 month deadline i reckon.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I can't believe they have the balls to announce that on the very day the "3-4 HD channels" were to be released, so effectively the last 3 months were a waste of time as I've no doubt the next 3 months will be, its just lies to stop those of us who want HD from leaving.
A truly despicable business practise...there's an old saying that I think would certainly apply to Neil Berkett at present, "if your not going to crap get off the pot".
And at the moment his been sitting on that pot promising a movement for months and still nothing, to expand the analogy "his all pee and wind".

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

He should have said 3 months "subject to contract negotiations" then the first announcement would have been more credible. Contract discussions are always difficult and can overrun which seems to be the case, so he should have been clearer on the obstacles to go through. That said, if we do finally get extra HD channels then good, but it has taken far to long and VM seem to finally waking up to the fact that we are all now getting HD ready TVs and so want to watch HD if it is available.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hi KKevin666, someone on this forum with sense.

As l have said before, when there is a pink elephant flying past my house and lands, that is when l will beleive, there will be HD channels on VM, we have specnt a few quid on getting the V+ plus, with the intention it will give us HD channels etc, and it is hogwash.:mad:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

If you haven't seen the following new thread about HD yet you may find it interesting.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...-re-vm-hd.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Its not a waste of time at all. More than likely the contract negotiations are taking longer than expected and rather than say nothing at all they are just letting everyone know they are still working on HD stuff and hope no to have some channels within a few months.

Also more analogue channels are getting switched off so they are freeing up the network for the extra channels to come.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

:Yes:

My annoyance was very much that we just hadn't heard anything even though it was obvious the 3 month date was going to fall through. So at least we have some recognition from VM about the cock up.... That said i still dont get why 4 and ITV HD are so difficult to negotiate....

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

In regards to the statement released today from VM about adding more HD channels I have the following to say;
I can understand HD not being the biggest priority of VM at the moment but it is clearly important to some customers. It appears that they just recycle that "comming in the next few months" line, which to me seems completely insulting to customers who they've retained through making this statement in the past. And what's worse is that they make no reference to the fact that they have failled to deliver.
When Berkett made the statement in December, I didn't have a V+, and only got one in January, therefore had never taken much notice of what had been offered/promised in the way of HD, therefore I took this statement in good faith. But now to see it churned out again I wonder if it's just for the benefit of customers who don't yet have or only recently got a V+ and won't aknowledge the fact that it has been said all before.
P.S I think this is the first negative thing I've posted about VM on this web site.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Wedding TV on Virgin Media update:

In email I got a following:

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Virgin On Demand news:

On Sunday (April 5th) Paramount Comedy will be removed from TV Choice but will relaunch on May 8th as ''Comedy Central''.

http://www.virginmedia.com/customers/comedy-central.php

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

No Paramount comedy for a month? That is probably my favourite channel, I love King of Queens, Frazier, The Office:American, infact to many to list.
I hope it's just a name change, and the programme doesn't change to much.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

No.

Its only On Demand

The TV Channels will rebrand on Monday with:
Paramount 1 being Comedy Central and Paramount 2 being Comedy Central Extra.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Thanks for clearing that up. What a relief.
... I made a mix up... nothing new there.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I have never heard so much crap in my life concerning VM statement on HD channels, We get this statement from Niel Berkett, that this is plans for HD channels, in the next few months, This was in December, VM have no intention of bringing HD channels this year, they are more intent on the ' On Demand ' service, then pleasing there customer database, These so called ' contract negoiations ' is a white herring, If they have to contact Sky, for them, well that is going to be long drawn problem, Its about the CEO of VM pulled his finger out and gave the customers want is wanted,.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

doesnt matter to me... i dont have a v+ box, and no channels are broadcast in full 1080p HD, so i'll stick to my blu rays, when virgin get their hd channels they will get them, continuing to moan every other day that they still havent arrived will not make them arrive any quicker, now like many other posters have said i thought this thread was titled 'Coming soon to virgin media' hd channels are coming but not as soon as you all wanted, now lets get this thread back on track shall we?

When i say i dont have a V+ box i mean i dont have a v+ box connected to my 1080p TV :P

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It has nothing to do with the CEO there are contracts that need signing, he cant magic up HD channels without contracts signed....

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hi, Does anyone know what has happened to Trouble and Trouble+1, Me and my daughter loved watching My wife and kids, Girlfriends, One on one etc.. They were all such a good laugh on a boring Sunday afternoon, instead we have two more boring Living T.Vs i.e Living+2 and Living 2+ why take of two good channels which have been there since day 1, for two more Living channels when we already had three Living channels..
What is Virgin Media thinkinking of?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It's closed

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...s-closing.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I liked watching 'My Wife and Kids' too, but i think its on one of the living channels now.

Even though i don't like watching living and all the model stuff etc, it would make so much sense to have a Living HD chnnel, im sure it's mostly filmed in HD in the US.
I've said it since...well since i got VM a few yrs ago.:td:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Well i think its a real shame Trouble has gone, i have watched it ever since i first had Telewest on the old analogue box, but couldn't VM have found something better than more Living TVs to replace it with, i mean three of them was more than enough, its just repeating all the time getting as bad as Sky..

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Living is their most watched channel and they felt like we needed all the extra Living channels.

However you can still find some of the programmes from Trouble either on Virgin 1 or Living.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The extra Living channels are just placeholders, temporary channels until VM rebrand all their channels later in the year.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Do you, or anybody else for that matter know, with the rebrand will this channel now start broadcasting in widescreen?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Does anybody know an exact date when Alpha ETC Punjabi will be coming to ex-telewest areas as well as all other ex-ntl Channels?

It has dragged on for a while now and it's getting a bit annoying waiting for it.

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Sorri forgot to mention that Alpha ETC Punjabi is now called Zee Punjabi

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I thought a deal had been signed for Channel 4HD, i recall seeing about it few weeks ago but still nothing on when its coming ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Comedy Central is having an Freeview month on the M package until the 4th of May.

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---------- Post added at 11:29 ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 ----------


The latest I have is on my list in post one.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I think you will find that will be when Old Nick buys himself a set of snow shoes;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

This weeks list update now online see post one.

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It look like ''Zee Gujarati'' and ''Zee Radio'' will not launch on Virgin Media after all as Zee Network are to axe the both of them on Sky from April 30th.

Info from media247.co.uk

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Any news if VM are doing a deal with A & E to broadcast Military History in the near future as they are in talks with them for HD channels. I know its a separate contract but as there in the same room talking logic would be to discuss the matter.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I have not been told anything new since last month.

Dr. Who update:

Dr. Who will be broadcasted on Saturday and next Monday (Not Sunday as posted in my list).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It is in fact three showings over the weekend.

Saturday on BBC One at 6.45pm. This broadcast will be simulcast with the BBC HD channel.

A second showing on BBC Three at 7pm on Easter Sunday.

The final showing will be on BBC One on Easter Monday at 5pm

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Eurosport 2 (Channel 525) is now broadcasting in widescreen.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Not on mine it isnt......

Just switched over to live european hocky and it isnt in wide screen.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Some european channels do not broadcasted in widescreen and Eurosport is using an local TV network to broadcast the game.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Ahh... it all becomes crystal clear. Thanks, as ever.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Watch TV Channel has changed their DOG logo BIG BIG Eyeball

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

UKTV unveils Home and Really in latest phase of its rebrand

30 April- UKTV to launch 'Home'
19 May- UKTV to launch 'Really' :rolleyes:

UKTV Gardens will be axed with some of the programming moved to Home.

Incidentally, the tagline for 'Really' is 'you couldn't make it up'. :D

UKTV Food is expected to rebrand this quarter.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/89...e-its-rebrand/

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

This news has been posted before see my list on page one in post one and here http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34760916-post592.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hmm! Not sure how I feel about that. It depends on who might take them over. I think 'better the devil you know' as I would hate to see drastic changes to the programming on most of these channels. Any thoughts?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Who on earth comes up with the names for these old UKTV channels?? I'm imagining some executive sitting in a meeting telling the advertisers that he wants something "cutting edge", "pro-active" something "out of left field".
Then after all this blue sky thinking they come up with...Watch, Really and Yesterday.:)
I wonder how much all this "out of the box" thinking cost them?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

"Blue sky thinking" and "Out of the box" are no longer politically correct. The former being atmospherist and the latter being storagist. Please could you refrain from using such phrases.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

the word is brainstorming.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Sorry you can't use brainstorming anymore. It upsets epileptics. You need to use "thought shower".

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Sorry the word "though" and related terms like "think", "reason", "investigate" are now deemed dangerous by the "Reelect Our Beloved Gordon" committee.

Gordon is great and wise, please simply watch your television and leave the running of the country to him.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Or just write scurrilous emails...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

That is not a very nice thing to say about epileptics, being a suffer myself the word brainstorming does not upset me.but what you have
said you could be report under the dda , if you had said that in public.
does not bother me though. sorry for going of topic .

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Murphy's Law dictates that this will be the week when all of the really exciting things happen on VM TV and you won't be around to report on them! :(

We'll probably get five HD channels, widescreen on every channel, Demand Five on TVoD, two free Sky Movie channels etc. (Wishful thinking!)

Anyway, enjoy the time off and have a Creme Egg or two.

Thanks and looking forward to next Monday's bulletin (with all of the above announcements :D).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

What did he say?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

this Sorry you can't use brainstorming anymore. It upsets epileptics.


any way this is way off the thread subject . so lets get it back on track

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I wish you were on the love in training course I was on and you could have pointed out the errors of the PC brigade.

Happy to get back on topic hopefully with some news

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

This is a wind up? Yes? (Are you allowed to say "wind up" or is that being offensive to watches and clocks? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

how about getting back to tv news on virgin tv . and forgeting all thi
rubbish in the last dozen or so posts .

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Chill out! There is no news. We need something to cheer us all up;):D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Yep, you've lost me now.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I don't think anything much will happen in relation to Virgin TV until they finally put down Analogue TV once and for all on their platform (it has been dragging on for to long).

Analogue TV RIP PLEASE :mad:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I believe analouge has been switched off in all the digital areas now, only analogue only areas still exist but these i think cant be or wont be upgraded.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Urban legend Epileptic Societies has said it is ok to use it. It the PC brigade again!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Well, here's a coming soon item just to interrupt the back biting on here, VM's bosses are to award themselves up to 100% of their base salaries. Not bad for a company in several billion pounds worth of debt...:

http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php...-up-again.html

Clearly, VM is no better than its predecessor companies and although we've had the recent launch of ITV on demand we've had no new channels launched on the platform since August last year when the +1s of Hallmark and Diva appeared. This excludes the launch of Sky's channels in November which were simply a reinstatement of missing channels.

So nothing new since August, HD is coming "soon", as it always is. The basic functionality of of using cable tv is as crap as ever, channel change is still slow and only 1 day of tv guide data and that's when it works. But yet VM's bosses have enough money to spend on themselves.

Cable is still "the best platform" or will be "soon", but yet cable insiders have been saying this for 20 years now, when cable first started...The sooner a viable and large enough fibre optic competitor(s) comes on the scene, the better.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Good find Horizon, there certainly is something sickening about the fact that we mere customers have just had another increase in prices, just as top brass at VM award themselves bonuses of up to 100%:td::td:
As the link says, countless CEOs of VM, Telewest and NTL, all of which to a man has failed, have walked away with fat golden handshakes for being a failure.
Each of them telling us how great the network is, and to a man each one of them promised jam tomorrow, but tomorrow has never come.
One of these "failures" came up with the statement in 2005 that soon would be dozens of impending HD channels on the network...four years later VM still have only one HD channel.
Hopefully the shareholders will put a stop to these money grabbing failures, nowadays its accepted that bonuses should only be payed to successful executives, how they justify up to 100% bonuses for themselves in the current economic climate will be entertaining indeed.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Lets look at this in a bit more detail. Right now they don't have any bonuses, they need, in the longer term, to earn them.

So to earn anything this is what they have to show they have achieved:

(i) cash flow; - make it so people spend more and turnover more cash = better services
(ii) net present value of customers; - see above
(iii) customer satisfaction; = make the company work for the customer
(iv) fault rates; - see above (what will we have to complain about if this happens)
(v) employee engagement; = talk to the "little man" on the front line and find out how they tick
(vi) achievement of various operational objectives; = actually make the things happen they say they do
(vii) operating cost controls. = get rid of waste (see analogue)

If all the above happen, better services (HD anyone), less faults, understanding what is happening at the front line and making the company work then IMHO they will have earned their bonuses !

However having spent yesterday talking to an ex Fujitsu VM internet tech there have a lot of work to do and the chances of any bonuses are slim in the short term.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

just took a survey and when finished got direct to site link below with virgin not the ceo in press conferance stating hd channels comming this year

http://www.virginmedia.com/wehearyou/

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Virgin Media to launch ''Ads on Demand''.

Virgin Media is to roll out targeted ads across its VoD service, following the conclusion of its first trial of VoD advertising to 100,000 Virgin Media-subscribing homes in north London.

More than half (54%) of the triallists reacted positively to the VoD ads, while 65% preferred to view ads before VoD clips. VoD ads lasting 30 seconds were most popular.

Also, 42% of respondents said ads were worth watching if they were relevant to the programmes chosen, for example haircare ads being shown before shows such as Britain's Next Top Model or ads for homewares after Grand Designs.

Virgin has not put any dates on when they will add it.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/8982...-London-trial/

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Liverpool FC TV is having an Freeview day on Virgin Channel 544.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I know we can't call this progress but at least it's an indictaion that they know a lot of us are annoyed by the lack of linear HD.

It's good to know that, at least, they acknowledge it.

A lot of my gripe was that they just didn;t say anything.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The targetr ads are already live i noticed them this morning when watching vod

incase anyone doesnt beleiv eme go to cacth up tv and go to 4 on demand then monday night epsiode at 9pm

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Virgin really need to do some fact checking on these pages.

"On Demand HD content for you to enjoy whenever you choose, including The Sopranos, The Wire and Dexter"

Sounds very promising, until you realise the wire wasn't filmed in HD (it wasn't even filmed in widescreen) as it was filmed on Digibeta which only has the capacity for SD, so just how are they planning on making it available in HD on demand? It's not going to be more upscaled content passed off as HD is it?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

How have they made a lot of old show and films filemd only in sd into HD? its simple they remaster them into HD, however as i do not know the show in question i can not comment on hwo it going ot be done it could be upscalign it could be remastering, it could be its a completely different show ot what you think or it could be something etnerily different.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Old films and tv shows are filmed on normal film. They aren't filmed "in SD", the frames from the film are just sampled at SD resolution to create an SD picture, you can then go back to the original film and resample it at an HD resolution to get an HD picture (part of the remastering process). The HD image is always there though because normal film does not have a resolution.

Digibeta however is a digital format that therefore DOES have a resolution (either SD PAL or NTSC) so to take it from SD to HD the only thing you can do is upscale, and upscaling something then passing it off as HD is extremely bad form as it's simply not in any way shape or form HD.

It's definitely not a different show, there's only one show called The Wire (and you should be watching it nightly on bbc2!)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The analogue service on in Nottingham at the moment begs to differ. Please refrain from posting blanket statements unless you have concrete proof - and not the "donkey" kind either. ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I assume you have never looked at the dictnoary for hte word 'believe' as i tmeans not compeltely certain just what you know.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Oh right, I think I misread that one. You have my apologies, now begone with you. :D ;)

Where it's analogue only TV at the moment, VM have a lot of work to do to upgrade the service to make it digital capable. Some of the areas in London are apparantly hellishly old! :eek:

However, while analogue's on in digital-enabled areas, I'll make use of it, especially as it gives me channels (some timeshared) that I don't get on an M subscription STB. These include ComedyCentral 1, TCM, Nick, Cartoon Network, MTV ONE, Bloomberg, and best of all British Eurosport.

I wonder if they're (Virgin Media) aware that they have some premium channels on FTA analogue at the moment...... :o:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

From April 24th. FX will be available to all customers on Virgin Channel 157 until 24 May.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

at first i thought u were gunna say FX HD was going to be added to virgin:(

Any news on MTV airing in proper widescreen yet? They have lots of shows that are filmed in ws but are aired in 4:3 with widescreen video in it, so that quality is very poor. Surely they could make the switch! Especially as they have an MTVHD channel now, shame the content on there is limited at best.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

yeah I too thought the same.. :-(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

This weeks list update now online - see post one.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hi Media Boy,

When you say "All BBC Radio and TV Channels will launch in all areas of Virgin TV" in post 1, does this mean just the BBC TV areas "England", "Northern Ireland", "Wales, "Scotland" - or will we be getting all the regions (ie. "South East", "London", etc)?

Also does this mean Virgin will finally have BBC Two Wales, etc - or just the BBC One channels?