Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

There you go Andrew, an autumn we can all agree on;) nobodies noticed yet though that VM have failed to mention which year this autumn will fall into.;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I'm not sure I follow you.

TV content is, by and large, in my opinion, terrible. Occasionally there will be a gem like Planet Earth, and some of the US dramas are good (Mad Men in particular), but I struggle to find much else. Maybe I just have high standards.

It doesn't help that Virgin's ridiculous lack of high-def means that often when something interesting does come along I'll have to acquire it from other sources to see it with a watchable picture quality.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

well what did you expect is not the first time weve all been had :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

TV has been around for over 100 years and only in it's infancy was it unwatchable. Since around 1946 576i technology has been available making tv broadcasts more than watchable. Anyone would think we were still stuck at around 18 lines technology (possible in 1884). Give VM a break. HD will come, meanwhile if you have a HD tv allow your v+ to upscale or move elsewhere as afterall HD terchnology is a small pin prick in the history of TV.

EDIT: Apologies for the rant but the same argument is being covered over and over again.

---------- Post added at 00:05 ---------- Previous post was yesterday at 23:49 ----------

So is anything coming soon to Virgin TV? This used to be what this thread was about?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

HD isnt a small pin prick, its a giant leap! The quality of 1920x1080i vs 720x576i is gigantic, makes sports and nature docu's watchable instead of pixelated and no more distortion around text on the screen, just clear text like on a pc monitor, its how tv should have always been and HD has been out for around 10yrs in america, uk was 7yrs ish late to start to jump ship.

All i really want is eurosporthd, itvhd, channel4hd and would be nice for fxhd, sky sports1-3hd if possible.

itv's quality is rather poor generally, especially for football so hd is a giant improvement, channel4 is much nicer in hd too and a little better pic qual for the upscaling (mainly due to higher bitrate rather than the actual upscaling).

i would have liked setantahd but that wont be happening hehe :P its a shame they could charge £15/month for setantahd and make a much better profit. lets see if sky or epsn buy out setanta and see what they do with it. would love to see ufc, boxing and football in hd.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

To say that HD is just a small pin prick is ridiculous, I don't think that expecting a decent HD offering from the UK's second largest pay TV provider is asking too much, especially when it was this company that "first" offered an HD service.
Then again maybe you meant to say that VM's current HD offering was equivalent to a "pin prick", because of its paltry offering.;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Well it's 1:37am and Setanta still going strong, I'm pleased to say, as I enjoy the channel.

As for the nice surprise coming from VM, and when Autumn starts, it really is laughable. People debating when one season begins in the faintest hope that a single measly hd channel may start broadcasting on VM.
As I'm one of the people who want to have the option of HD channels, I have to say I'm sort of pleased the choice has been taken out of my hands. I'm moving to a place with no cable, and will take sky at the end of August (Or mid to late Autumn for AndrewCrawford23's sake).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Why is it so hard for them to give dates for things. I would rather they say something is coming in six months rather then coming soon.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

So we don't have any ideas on what the suprise is or when it will be?? Just V1 saying a suprise is coming before Chuck (or whatever its called) began and then...nothing??

So what the flippin heck is going on???

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

the problem is if they announce something before a contract is signed then customers will sign up because of that. As such whoever they are negotiating with will have them over a barrel. Also if the deal falls through then again this can make VM look bad.

It's not just a matter of VM ring up Sky and saying can we have some HD channels and then paying them a set amount

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The surprise last night was the rebranding of Virgin 1 and the new puppet called Red.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

There was a small red lindt chocolate below my tele when I got up this morning. I assume Richard Branson left it there for me ;) Didn't you all get one?... or was it only for people who don't keep harping on about HD:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hardly worth all the fuss and build up though Stephan, all that for a glove puppet and new logo, if VM call that marvelous what on earth are they going to call HD..."cataclysmically groundbreaking development on par with the second coming"?;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

To be fair to VM, they never claimed that this V1 rebrand was a major thing, they just announced it a fair while ago and people who didn't know about it thought that was what their surprise was.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

EXACTLY... O.k THIS is what has annoyed me. Virgin Media FULLY knowing the annnoyance their customers feel about lack of linear HD make a big fuss about a "Suprise" on the launch night of the new (though WTF is new i dont really know) V1 channel and all it is, is a red glove puppet.

PATHETIC!