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typo.

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In other news:

One of my New Channel testers has told me that Channel AKA is still testing off the Virgin EPG.

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Channel AKA what type of channel is it

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So erm even though we all appreciate the info there seems to have been no point in you telling us about the three channels coming then really?

It's kinda like when your a kid and someones says "nah nah nah I know something you don't know" :p:

Crappy rap/rnb/hip hoppy channel but more focused on the uk scene

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I cant win!!!

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Ah sorry I didn't mean it in a negative way.

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If channel AKA is testing then we may also get Starz channel, which is a pop chart sort of texting in channel. Starz channel also owns AKA channel.;)

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I'd be quite happy with more of the missing +1 channels, until VM roll out a 10-tuner V+ box. :D

The CBS channels would be nice as well.

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If this happened, I would purposely just record 9 just because I can :P

lol

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Doe anyone know if we will ever get Fox News on Virgin?

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i sure hope not!

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I doubt anyone knows. Certainly not anyone who posts in these forums. I would say we are less likely to get it than the Sky HD channels and nobody knows if or when we will get those either. The thing is, unlike the HD channels only a tiny minority are bothered about getting Fox news (IMHO).

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Honestly, why would you want Fox News? George Bush and Nick Griffin might be avid watchers but it's only purpose is for the comedy value.

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You are either trolling, have no idea what Fox is, or are not the sort of person anyone here would want to associate with.

Fox News is a hateful, offensive, ultra right wing, homophobic, pro-religion, pro-war, neo con propaganda channel which will offend anyone with a functioning brain. Nothing it says can ever be considered rational, truthful, or indeed fair and balanced.

I hope Virgin are never stupid enough to carry it.

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M.B any asian channels?

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and murdoch owned

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wonder if a hd channel might be accomdaing the new sd channels media boy is talking about ;)

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No Asian Channels are coming anytime soon AFAIK.

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unlikely i say only 3% max of virign customer want the asian channels there jsut no profit for virign to do it, they might add more in the future but it will have to make commerical sens, no point adding 1 channel that maybe 10000 people will watch and virign pay 1 million ofr it and makea lose of 900000 on it. by the way there are just mystical figure nto real one just trying to make a point

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I'd just like to say thanks to MB for letting us know that there is more in the pipeline even if you can't tell us what it is. Your hard work and dedication, I am sure, is appreciated by most.

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Don't beat about the bush. Do you like the channel or not?

Joking aside I totally agree with you.

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thank's for info:clap::clap:

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I don't like Fox News, but each to their own and all that :)

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Thanks for the info guess well have to wait till tomorrow to find out what channels are coming

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The current asian pack on vm is value for money its a shame they won't be getting any more channels they could do with at least adding the missing channels from Star and View Asia pack.

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Maybe Virgin might not have an new announcement tomorrow as I have been told that we might get an new Channel announcement either once a week or every other week.

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I think any announcements this week will be saved until the 4th results.

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That will be on Feb. 25th.

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d'oh, think what week we're in Musicbravo. Same comment then for next week's announcment

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This question is for media boy. On the 16th Febuary 2010 V+ boxes did a firmware update in Lewisham area. Do you know what the update fixes were?

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This update is for moving onto the N3 system. I think there may have been other small tweaks but I don't know what they are

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This question is for musicbravo is the N3 system the new cisco network?

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Sorry i'm not that technical mate. The info i gave you originally was posted on another thread. Someone like ShadowTD may be able to answer that one for you or Digital Fanatic

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yes and no

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The N3 system is the new encryption which is to be used with the new NGTV network, you know if your on the NGTV network if you have BBC Radio 4 LW, BBC News Multiscreen and BBC Radio London AFAIK

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not excatgelhy that is only if your xntl, if your xtw it is when you lose the lcoal radio channels and gain some others cant remeber which

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And Ex-Telewest will get BBC One Wales (Channel 862), BBC Radio Wales (Channel 931) and BBC Radio London (Channel 937).

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If it is ITV HD I wouldn't get to excited, I have just downloaded the Freeview HD app for the Iphone/Ipod touch and found a majority of their programmes are in standard def :(

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correct but the full itv 1 hd channel has not fuklky launched yet, and it wont be untilt he world cup it matter and that what most peopel want it for

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[QUOTE=moroboshi;34964980]You are either trolling, have no idea what Fox is, or are not the sort of person anyone here would want to associate with.

Fox News is a hateful, offensive, ultra right wing, homophobic, pro-religion, pro-war, neo con propaganda channel which will offend anyone with a functioning brain. Nothing it says can ever be considered rational, truthful, or indeed fair and balanced.

So you don`t like it then?:shocked: sounds just the antidote to Auntie but for the last sentence, which could easily describe their news ( at least when reporting on Welsh news) :(

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New tv channels added this morning in Edinburgh, no new smart card change yet

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Hope Racing UK comes back free to air as i bet not many are paying £20pm

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it was the channel choice after collapse of setenta

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Yeah it's basically a teenage chav channel where kids send in photos posing. Imagine facebook crossed with the box:rolleyes:

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I was thinking about what I would want in regards to HD

Nevermind the usual suspects, sky sports, movies et al

I want a channel that shows reruns of baywatch

Watching all that running in HD...hrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Apologies to any women viewing, but on the bright side (for you, not me), David Has would be on too :)

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Haha yeah all those "I think I am pregnant" texts during the day and then the myspace posed pictures of boobs and night.....it's chavtastic

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My Dad was telling me lots of guys that he works beside, with dodgy boxes, came into work this morning freaking out as they had lost all their channels :woot:

Not sure if that's a side effect of over night updates but sure made me laugh :)

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Thanks for info...

You will also find the following has also launch on your box.

928. Radio: Magic 105.4
931. Radio: BBC Radio Wales
932. Radio: BBC Radio Ulster
936. Radio: BBC Radio Cymru
937. Radio: BBC Radio London
963. Radio: Kiss 100

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hi sir MB

any news on NASCAR 2010 Rights

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I have not seen any news on the Web about NASCAR 2010 UK Telly rights.

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any news on NASCAR 2010 Rights[/QUOTE]

wasnt it on sky sunday night?

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that was just 1 race of the nascar 2010 season i think, there are many races, like with formula1.

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Sky Movies rebranding again http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...-showcase.html

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Thanks for info.

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There is still no announcement regarding live NASCAR coverage on UK TV. Sky are showing highlights shows, but no live racing. Last I heard, ESPN were in talks about it, but evidently nothing has been agreed.

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On a side note, to those who watch, Monster Jam are back in the UK this September at Birmingham and Manchester.

Keep up the great work MB, just about to start reading the blog of yours!

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It's really that poor isn't it?:D

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Sorry if this has already been mentioned

Sky & Virgin both closer to signing the deal

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...nels-deal.html

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Yeah already discussed in News section :)

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Look like NGTV is coming to my area soon then.

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what is supposed to happen when our area is switched over, no picture??

Our virgin box has been pixelating and dropping picture for the past 3 days, i've go no new virgin card through the door tho, phoned virgin they said wait 24hrs and if it isn't fixed then phone again for an engineer.

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The switchover shouldn't cause any of the issues you describe... we ask you to monitor for 24hours, while a team monitors jobs coming in for your area, and if we see a trend then we can raise an outage for the area. If no more jobs come in then you need a tech to call to your home as it is likley a single viewer issue.

HTH :)

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Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: More news on the Sky's Virgin Media Television takeover.

I have been told by my Virgin Insider that Virgin Media wants Sky Red Button and Sky HD Channels as part of any deal to sell The Virgin Media Television Channels to BSkyB.

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nice, i hope virgin don't back down! I would sooo love sky hd channels:) Not bothered about the red button.

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This could turn out fantastic in the end! :):angel:.
Come on Virgin Media don't back down with this offer you may get it. :shocked:

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Sounds like a much more of a fair deal imo!

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Get in there VM.... don't back down.

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If these deal goes ahead I suspect Virgin will demand red button and HD, access to all Sky channels at launch, access to all 3rd part channels that Sky helps launch and a clause that ensures that VMTV channels are always available on cable and that that the Sky channels can never be removed.

I would also expect that there would be a clause that would forbid VM from entering the content business again or at the very least for a number of years.

Hopefully VOD will be factored in as well as Sky seem to by VOD rights to all its US shows. and if we really want to dream how about a tie up where Sky customers can get Virgin cable to access VID via their Sky box?

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ive had the same on my two boxes for the last 2 days ive not had new cards yet.

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Also pixelating for a few days for me. I noticed it particularly on ITV2 and History channels.

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We had a network issue with those channels yesterday on exTelewest, should be ok now. HTH

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I really can not see Sky allowing Virgin Media access to their HD channels it would only have a bad impact on the sky platform. Some people subscribe to sky hd purely because sky have those channels. It's one of the few usp's sky has against virgin.

That's not what i would call a fair deal at all. I don't want to have to pay for HD with Virgin. I wouldn't watch the Sky channels when they came over, in HD or otherwise. Virgin must know that they a usp over Sky retailing their HD to their customers for free. If Sky HD channels come over to Virgin and there is then a £10 subscription fee thrown on top of it i can see a lot of people being extremely miffed. Virgin are far more likely to get more customers by signing more HD carriage deals and keep adding them for free to their XL pack.

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I was expecting this kind of deal so i Hope its true. This year is getting more and more exciting for virgin tv subscribers. Keep it up VM.

Duke

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There is no way this is going to happen, they're not suddenly going to become friends, they are businesses. They will want to keep their usps for themselves. If we do get Sky HD channels then no doubt we will have to pay a sub fee for them like sky customers have to, otherwise it would mean VM suddenly looks way more attractive than Sky. Plus VM would have to do their own seperate deals with content providers for ondemand rights, they can't share the rights it wouldn't be fair on the seller.

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I don't see how the seller of VOD has to be involved, as long as Sky make it clear that they are buying rights to show on other platforms it would all be factored into the cost. Am I am of course thinking best case scenario here and of things and not at all what would actually happen.

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Thats two seperate things Tvtimes

Zantarous hasn't said VM won't charge for Sky HD channels all he's said is that he thinks we'll get them as part of the deal.

I fully expect to have to pay for Sky HD if we get them - there's no way VM could consume the cost and not charge even XL holders for them - we might get some sort of discount but will still have to pay.

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I know he didn't but people are speculating, people are getting excited at the prospect of getting sky HD. I just think if Sky HD does come along we won't get them for nothing. Sky don't give things away especially when it will be detrimental to their own platform.

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The important thing is that we will have the choice which is better then what we have now. if there is a surcharge of about £5-10 for:

Sky 1 HD
Sky 2 HD (coming soon)
Sky News HD (coming soon)
Sky sports 1HD
Sky sports 2HD
Sky sports 3HD
Sky Movies 1-10 HD
Sky Arts

Seems like a choice I would splash the cash for. Although in the past VM have not wanted to take this stance, remeber them refusing Sky to sell its basic channels directly to VM customers.

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Why would Sky absorb the cost for vm? Plus Vm already has loads of deals in place for the ondemand they already offer these would all have to be renegotiated. In an ideal world your idea would be fantastic but this is Sky and Virgin were talking about, they hate each other.

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But if it's less than what Sky charge i can't see Sky being happy at all with Virgin under cutting them on HD. Sky put up a fuss when Virgin used to offer Sky1 free to their medium pack customers and tried to insist it was only available to people paying for their top package.

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I didn't say anywhere about absorbing the cost. Again it would be extra revenue for Sky from selling another service to cable customers. Admittedly VoD is not on the cards at all I am just speculating on what could happen if the two companies actually put hostility aside and shared services, there is money aplenty to be made for everyone.

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Well there is a price point that customers won't pay, £10 on satellite gets you 37 shiny HD channels as there latest advertising campaign says. The Sky sub on cable would only include the sky channels. There could well stipulate that you have to take out the L or above pack before you could subscribe to it. Anything above £10 and they might as well not bother.

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sorry, i read into that, that you meant Sky could buy the rights to the ondemand services and then give them to other providers.

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Sky on Demand is not part of any deal AFAIK.

But I know that Virgin are also looking to sign an longer deal for the Sky Basic Channels as part of any Deal as well.

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I hope, as has been suggested, that there will be clause that Sky could not withhold channels bought from VM if there is a disagreement over price in 5-10 years time.

A lomghaul deal over Sky basics would be very welcome i'm sure.

What still worries me sighlty is that V were able to say in the last dispute:- "This is what Sky 1 bring as far as viewing figures are concerend and you want us to pay £XXXXX for them wheras this is what Living etc pull in."

They wouldnt be able to do that now.

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New Channels to launch next month?

Just found this over on DS:

And as far as I know Spring starts on March 1st.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/upcoming/

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They are launching in April

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Thanks for info.

Any dates yet for them as well as Eurosport HD and Discovery HD?

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Well Eurosport HD is also April. Discovery dunno yet

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1st week in April for Eurosport HD according to CS

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This is great news hopefully it happens so on skysports i can do match choice instead of having to watch the match they choose

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Sci-Fi to rebrand in April

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...i-rebrand-syfy

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I think the people doing the rebranding must be 13. Nat Geo, syfy, it makes me very embarrassed as i'm able to speak engrish.

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lol

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I like this part :

NBC Universal is repositioning its pay-TV channels around five core brands: Syfy Universal, Studio Universal, Diva Universal, 13th Street Universal and Universal Channel.

So as MB says in post one they all may get rebranded at the same time ?

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Yeh, I'd imagine all sorts of deals to get Sky's services would be part of this.

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yeah:rolleyes:

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And if you don't have Sports or Movies, but still want Sky1 HD ?
I'm sure something will be sorted out with the Sky HD channels sooner or later.

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Surely a couple of years down the line HD will be the standard and nobody will be charging a premium for them...... So whats all the fuss

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That couple of years probably many years away. Heck some channels are not even widescreen yet.

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Virgin Media twitter
I know its obvious already that there's more to follow, but at least we do know officially that there will be more announcements shortly :D

and something about 3D eh ;)

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Not really anything about 3D there though, they were just saying how they've already shown some 3D stuff, not hinting at anything new in the future.

And to be honest, VM's 3D offering so far has been average at best, unlike Sky who are using the latest tech.

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Oh yeah, true true :)

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the 3D stuff was a load of garbage especially as there was no way fo getting the 3D glasses anywhere near here. if VM do start broadcasting 3D in the future they need to make sure every custmer gets glasses otherwise its a waste of time.