Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

I'm just winding him up i think he clicked on i was winding him up hehe.

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Ah he assumed i called him a fanboy i didn't actually mention any names :p: Anyway i think he cottoned on i was just winding him up lol.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

At somepoint over the weekend my blog pass the 1 Million mark.

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Thanks for rumour.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

Well done oh great one.:nworthy::nworthy:

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

I would like BT to win - due to the UEFA rights coming to BT in 2015/2016 season.

Do anyone think we will see Channel 5 being rebranded again?

If BT wins I think Channel 5 will be rebranded as BT One.
If Turner wins I think Channel 5 will be rebranded as TNT.

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Radio Today: All new Smooth Radio from March 3rd.

Simon Bates and Lynn Parsons are leaving Smooth Radio to make way for a new line-up as the station re-launches under Global Radio.

http://radiotoday.co.uk/2014/02/bate...th-relaunches/

You can hear Smooth Radio on Virgin Channel 916 right now (Known as Smooth fm).

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

Why ? What difference will that make ? BT haven't paid the vast sums they did to make these games FTA they need a return on their considerable investment and subscriptions are what will drive that.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

They hope, i can't see hordes of people paying any extra for the CL or UEFA Cup.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

BskyB and Discovery Channel have Joined Togeather to Buy Channel 5 From Richard Desmond.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

link http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...livery-content

Watchdogs have 'grave concerns' over Netflix deal with cable giant Comcast
• Netflix pays Comcast to ensure smooth delivery of content
• Free Press president: ‘As a customer you are in the dark here’
theguardian.com, Monday 24 February 2014 17.52 GMT

Netflix HBO Comcast
Netflix is the world’s largest video on demand service.
Consumer groups and media watchdogs on Monday expressed “grave concerns” about Netflix’s landmark pact with cable giant Comcast for improved internet service.

Netflix, the world’s largest video on demand service, announced at the weekend that it had made an undisclosed payment to Comcast for direct access to the cable company’s broadband network, in order to ensure smooth delivery of its content.

The deal came just 10 days after Comcast, the biggest US cable firm, announced a takeover of Time Warner Cable, the second biggest, in a $45bn deal that would hand it the accounts of 30 million cable customers. Netflix had previously accused Comcast of slowing its service in order to favour its own video-on-demand service.

The companies said Netflix would receive “no preferential network treatment” but would benefit from “a more direct connection”. Terms were not disclosed.

Craig Aaron, president of internet rights lobby group Free Press, said he had “grave concerns” about the deal.

“As a customer you are in the dark here,” he said. “Was Comcast degrading Netflix’s service to people as a negotiating tactic? To people, I’d add, who were paying month after month for Netflix’s service.”

Aaron said it looked like Netflix had decided it “better get in now” before Comcast becomes even more powerful, while Comcast appeared to have decided to make a deal that would “silence a major critic” as the regulatory authorities review its mega-merger.

John Bergmayer, senior staff attorney at the consumer rights group Public Knowledge, said: “From what information is public, it appears that the largest ISPs [internet service providers] are demanding payment from networks that deliver content and services that residential broadband consumers demand.”

He said the fact that terms of the deal are secret “raises the question of whether they have something to hide”.

“One way to prevent competitive problems from arising, and to reduce the need for future regulation, is to prevent ISPs from holding other networks hostage. This raises concerns in light of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger,” he said.

Public Knowledge has objected to the merger. Bergmayer said that in the light of the Netflix deal the Federal Communications Commission, the Justice Department and Congress should move to “ensure that the broadband market continues to meet the needs of its users, and allows companies like Netflix (and the next Netflix) to offer the services that users have demonstrated they want.”

Comcast is currently legally obliged to treat internet traffic equally – meaning a video stream from Netflix should be as fast as one from its own video service, Xfinity. Recent studies, however, have shown that Comcast users were receiving their Netflix media at significantly slower speeds than those using other internet service providers.

Comcast was obliged to make sure all traffic was treated equally – a concept known as “net neutrality” – after its 2011 merger with NBC Universal. But the agreement expires in 2017 and many consumer groups have expressed concerns that the cable giant’s ultimate goal is a tiered internet service that would make it expensive for new startups to compete and raise prices for consumers.

Netflix is by far the largest generator of internet traffic in the US – accounting for a third of broadband traffic.

“There is no question that there are reals costs to that,” said Bergmayer. “There are servers, wires, labour associated with managing that. What concerns us is not money changing hands but what that money is for. Is it for improving the network or is it about ISPs saying we are selling you access to our customers, we are hedging against losing our cable customers to your services?”

He said the deal could well have been favourable for Netflix.

“There’s no way of knowing,” he said. “But even if it was, what does that mean for Netflix’s competition? Does the first one to get the deal pull the ladder up behind them?”

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Maybe Netflix well buy into virgin network at some point in the future

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

Not really the right thread for this, but take a look here for a different perspective.

http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/...ics-wrong.html

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They don't need to; VM already have Netflix's Open Connect, as do many other UK ISPs.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

TNT are pretty keen to return to the UK there was a rumour awhile ago about TCM being rebranded to TNT. I think BT will get CH5.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

I'd be surprised if they were allowed to vary the name very much and it would have to include '5' or 'Five' somewhere in the name.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

I hope you are right. Sky's Pick TV is a good example of what to expect if Sky win it.

I would like to see BT win the contract because, with BT Sport, this will give them a good foothold in TV and it should enable them to become a credible general entertainment provider as well as providing more competition for Sky to think about.

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Not sure about that; after all, ITV are not forced to be 'Channel 3'. I think they'd be OK to call it something else.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

True, but ITV and channel 3 have been associated as the same thing for years, so are interchangeable.

Five or 5 are the fifth terrestrial channel and have always been known as 5 or five etc.

I know pretty much nothing about these things, but it seems to me that whoever owns it should include a 5 of some kind in the title.

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

I guess you missed this part of the article

Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
 

BBC did report the following when BT got an exclusive £897m three-year deal to broadcast live Champions League and Europa League football matches.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24879138

What is Sky1 showing on Wednesday night?