Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Yeah, this is what I mean. I'm glad I make some sort of sense...sometimes anyway lol :-)

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Forgot, I also did it with the 1st TiVo.

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Do you mean that you put a larger HDD in or recycled the old existing one?

How difficult was it to get it open?

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I put a larger disk in, downloaded the software and away I went.

A word of caution though, this was a series 1 TiVo long before VM started using TiVo software. I seem to remember the only problem might have been that TiVo software couldn't calculate the space used on each recording correctly (but not entirely sure about that.

I changed from a 40gb disk to a 120gb disk from memory.

There were instructions how to do this on the Internet at that time.

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Here is one sky are renaming the racing uk channel in 2019 to sky sports racing, will that be joining the sky sports pack

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

No they are not!

Sky are renaming At the Races to Sky Sports Racing.

Racing UK is a different channel.

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I upgraded my original S1 TiVo as it was way too small and there were lots of help pages at the time back in the early 2000s.
I seem to remember the biggest faff was getting the software onto it.
I still have it in my garage along with the remote and should probably just bin it as no good for anything else now.
I had the lifetime subscription on it also :cry:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Same here, but it had a good run - don't remember any particular issues loading the software - but it is a long time ago

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

The page that originaly stated the Champions League Final would be in UHD on Virgin has had the comment removed:

Not good news.

http://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-tv...gue-final.html

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Except that we will still get it in UHD on YouTube

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is there a link for the youtube page?

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Wow YouTube can get it in 4K and we don’t pay anything and we pay monthly to virgin and they can’t

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BT have elected to make it available free on YouTube

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Well, to be fair, Virgin do bring this to you, via You Tube. No need for a separate channel, even if BT let us have it.

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Give it a watch and if it's anything like the Europa Cup Final feed you'll be unimpressed.

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It is only going to be on Youtube as BT have decided to show it via that platform as well as the BT website

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It's all they need to do, really. A neat solution.

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Well putting this to one side what have virgin given us uhd as part of what we pay for

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You need to be patient. There are technical issues with UHD which need to be put right. You will have read on these forums that the quality of some of these broadcasts leaves much to be desired.

It is very likely that up to three UHD channels are testing already on Virgin Media and they are likely to launch this year. However, don't get yourself too excited, there's not a lot of content to be had yet. So I don't know whether the programming on these channels will appeal or not.

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The technical issues must be to do with the 'UHD ready' V6 as sky have been showing live premier football for most of last season.

About time Virgin sorted out access to these games in UHD.

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Media Boy HQ can reveal that V Boxes are being removed from the network from August 1st.

We have been told to upgrade to TiVo by July 31st.

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Liverpool VS Real Madrid will be shown on FOUR Channels live.

-It will be shown is SD on BT Sport 2 (Channel 532) and BT Sport Showcase (Channel 548)

-It will be shown in HD on BT Sport 2 HD (Channel 528) and Channel 100.

-It will be shown in UHD on YouTube and maybe even V6 boxes via the red button*

*Testing right now.

All channels broadcasts will be from 6pm to 11pm.
Also Football fans can WATCH "History of Football" on Channel 100 from 6pm on May 28th.

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The French Open will be available on Eurosport's temporary UHD channel and will be availzble on Virgin Media from 27 May.

https://www.a516digital.com/2018/05/...ch-on-sky.html

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Thanks for the link, OB.

Even though I don't follow tennis, it's good news and possibly means that UHD content will start to appear more frequently.

I'll probably have a look to see what the V6 can do when put to the test :D

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Presumably the V6

1) will be able to record this channel?

2) be able to downscale the UHD channel onto a non-UHD tv

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1) From the reports - it does seem to be a proper channel so I guess you can record

2) The coverage is being simulcast on SD and HD channels

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Radio Times: Movie news.

Talking Pictures (Channel 445) is three years old on Saturday (May 26th)

Also from May 26th:

Sky Cinema Family will be known as Sky Cinema Animation until June 10th.

Sky Cinema Hits will be known as Sky Cinema Pirates of the Caribbean - TiVo has confirmed end date will be on June 2nd.

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Agreed.

If you are thinking of recording UHD, you'd better make sure you have plenty of space available because you won't have much left when it's finished!

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That was the point of doing it - to see exactly how much space it takes.

I also want to see if the down scaled picture is better than HD picture.

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Sky are getting it as a channel for virgin you can’t record as it’s red button only

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Typical - virgin are the poor relations as usual

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This article says the UHD version will also be on channel 100.
I'm guessing it might be red button as well though, else what would Tivo/V Box customers see?
https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2018...nal-in-4k-uhd/

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Good article, thanks for sharing.

"David Bouchier, chief digital entertainment officer at Virgin Media, said: “The UEFA Champions League final is the biggest night of the year in international club football and we know our customers will relish the opportunity to get as close as possible to the action by watching in Ultra HD. Showing this game in Ultra HD is another example of our fantastic sports offering and look out for more exciting announcements to come in the near future.”

Exciting announcements in the near future? ;)

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Indeed, this is just the start. Expect a lot more good news this year. Some will be surprised!

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Lets hope you are right OB.:)

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Red Button only.

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TiVo has reveal that Pop Power is set to stop broadcasting on June 2nd at 2am.

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Media Boy how is that an exclusive when it's all already been announced by VM and by numerous online sources.

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We reveal it on May 16th on both Cable Forum and Media Boy Blog:

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...&postcount=779

https://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/...gin-media.html

some time before other outlets.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

I may be late to the party on this, I was looking at the listings for possibly the first time as they have a football themed couple of weeks coming up, but how come we have H2 in HD but not the History channel?

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And for some reason H2 (SD) is on a lower TV package than History. I'd have thought the main channel would always try to be the most widely available.

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There have always been these anomolies. We don't always come out worse than Sky, though.

For example, we get Eden and H2 in HD, whereas Sky viewers can only access the SD version of these channels. The reverse is the case for History and CI channels, both of which are available in HD on Sky satellite.

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What you mean the exclusive Theone posted several months ago about UHD and most on here called him a liar?
I can see why he and others don't post here anymore, bit of egg on your faces now isn't it?

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Well said, Callum. Some people just have the mindset that everything will stay the same and nothing can be changed.

Theone's contributions to Cable Forum will indeed be sorely missed. He was a pretty good source of information, so that's our loss on a thread which so many rely on to get information on what may be happening behind the scenes.

As stuff doesn't seem to get announced officially these days until it's about to appear (or even until after it appears), we can ill afford to lose guys like him.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

The champions league news was also posted 1 day before the so-called exclusive as well

https://www.a516digital.com/2018/05/...champions.html

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l have not seen them yet.;)

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UHD test to be carried out tomorrow:

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...-channels/p131

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I know. That's the nature of a prediction, Den. Can't be proved until it happens.

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Wow this 4K looks really amazing and a match hasn’t started, the colour is so deep details are amazing, but with sky locking away movies, sports and entertainment from us virgin customers ( blacklist was amazing in 4K) after the French open what do we have available apart from niche material

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I have a 1080p TV and have yet to invest in a 4k TV

However I have to say that the BT 4K picture looked considerably better than the picture on BT Sport 2 HD on my TV.

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I thought that - tried it for a couple of minutes, trying to ascertain if the down scaled UHD picture would be better than HD.

Shame we couldn't record the UHD - possibly because Virgin didn't want us to see how inadequate their disc size is?

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Good to hear it downscales well. Didn't bother going for a UHD when bought a replacement TV last year, didn't seem any point.

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More is coming...

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Any little snippets of hope, I’m not wanting red button sport I don’t watch or animal documentaries. People want movies and entertainment. Any hints

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People like animal doc's and sport to!

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Correct but virgin need to cater for different people and maybe even a record ootion

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Well good luck to you if you intend to record in UHD! You would probably need a 5TB box for that!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Why I have a 2TB box and regularly record/download in UHD.

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But other then that how much do you record on a regular basis?.

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Part of this problem was caused by VM themselves as they first announced the UEFA Final would be in UHD on TV Edit, then withdrew the statement from the page a couple of days later.

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Live sport is the future of UHD - it will drive acceptance or otherwise.

I understand you don't like sport, but a lot of people do so to say "people want movies and entertainment" is your opinion not fact.

In reality people, especially those who have or are about to invest in a UHD TV want more UHD channels and content of all varieties (not the odd thing hidden on the red button)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

The point of that Exclusive was to

A) Confirm the launch date of Eurosport UHD
B) At time of posting on May 16th we did not know at a516Digital has an story up about BT Sport UHD.
C) If you look up all my posts I did not called Theone an liar.

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I don't think the comment was necessarily aimed at you, MB. The point is that theone gave some useful information on some intelligence he received and he was rubbished by some members of this forum, which seems to be the kneejerk reaction we get from flagging up what may happen in the future. Strange, given the nature and intent of this thread and the fact that if we relied on official announcements, there would be virtually no news to report most of the time.

As a result, we lost a good contributor to this forum, because he was pretty upset by the remarks made. But he was quite right - events have now proved it. Cable Forum's loss.

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I do want something for everybody and sky do have the content available and also little things on a red button don’t impress and worse showed how good it is, and is the same quality or better as uhd on sky

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

More is coming....

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For starters There needs to be a dedicated UHD channel, where any UHD programmes of any genre are available to record if the customer wants to.

As more UHD programmes become available then more UHD channels should follow.

If sky can do regular football in UHD then Virgin should get it, or people will vote with there feet

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Sky shows Football and F1 in UHD but viewers with Sky Q have to press Red to view it.

Sky UK or Ireland do not have an UHD broadcasting channel.

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The content is still recordable so I'm not sure on your point.

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I did not know that.:dunce::)

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Is there a dedicated red button channel on the EPG, muppetman?

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On SkyQ you can either press RED or select via the menu system.

The menu system also gives you recording options.

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This happens with red button options on sky - sometimes there may be 3 rugby matches on the same channel, with the menu option you could record all 3 with the requisite number of tuners available.

Really useful unlike virgin's offering

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

That could chamge, I should imagine. When the Olympics were on, VM allocated channel numbers in the 900 series for red button options, which meant you could record from them.

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The scenario I am talking about happens regularly on sky sports - virgin is way behind in this aspect.

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It’s true I get the feeling virgin will for a while on 4K play catch up with red button random sports and stuff sky doesn’t want. We pay for sky cinema sadly then 4K which is a big section we don’t get but we pay as much or more

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Maybe Virgin will get the rights to Sky Sports UHD when it deal is up with Sky. The old Five year deal is up in May 2019.

https://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/...ike-major.html

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Virgin Media is set to update V6 Boxes in the coming months so that scenario - of taping Red Button things - will maybe be added soon for all we know.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

If you mean the roll-out of the software level that is being piloted in some areas, that doesn’t include recording from red button.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Virgin Media Ireland to takeover Casey Cablevision.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/...ator-1.3511086

We are on an look out for the full list of channels for Casey Cablevision so we can work out what may close when Virgin Media Ireland take the keys.

If anyone can help PM me with info.

Thanks for any help.

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Can virgin not ask for a early review and what about sky cinema deal

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So recording red button or any sort of UHD is a long way off

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Personally l cannot see this happening but then again what do l know..

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Virgin can if their wanted to but their run business like Telewest - they do not add channels until it deal is up.

Virgin Media's deal with Sky for all Sky own Channels is up in May 2019.

Sky own Sky Sports, Sky Cinema (It was called Sky Movies in 2014) and Sky Basic (Sky One, Sky News and Sky Sports News)

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Try asking on boards.ie. It's the home of everything Irish.

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Been looking all night on that web site but with no luck.

Talk about the luck of the Irish.:D

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Will not happen Discovery Inc own 50% of UKTV.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Not yet! The BBC has two weeks left to buy Scripps' 50% share which it can then sell onto someone like ITV or keep for itself
There is a change of ownership clause in place for UKTV. So when Discovery purchased Scripps, the BBC has the option to acquire Scripps' 50% stake.

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News to us - thanks for info.

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The article says that the BBC has an automatic 90 day window to purchase the stake following the sale to Discovery. There are 2 weeks left for them to do so - the BBC would then immediately sell the share on to ITV.


Edit: Cross-posted with 1andrew1!!!

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I simply do not know how VM run there business. They don't add channels until a deal is up.

What a way to run a company. Customers want new channels to come onto the next network. Does this mean that VM wont add SA until 2019 ?

If l was running a company, and there were channels out there that customers would want. I would contact that company - discuss a deal and then put the channel on.

No wonder customers are looking elsewhere for companies with better service and better channels

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So then virgin could ask to review deal to try and get customers UHD, what they waiting on, its another year 2 and a half years since i got v6

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Exactly remember for 2 years the only HD channel we had was BBC HD

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

More on that UKTV story.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-it...-idUKKCN1IT22Q

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

With the recent UHD offerings on the V6 box, has there been any word on the HDR update?

I guess it depends on if the UHD trials are going well

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

A case of trying to run before Virgin can walk?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

THe HDR update is in the latest software which arrived here several weeks ago. Netflix has it working fine.

But there are no HDR channels available - no even on Sky.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Actually, reading your post did remind that when I used Netflix on the V6 app, the tv did go into HDR mode.

I usually use the Netflix app on my TV so completely forgot :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Not much on cable Tv, but here's the BB website.

http://www.cablesurf.com/

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Thanks for link.

But we did see that web site yesterday.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

..and go bankrupt after a couple of years.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

You reckon his business would last that long :shocked:

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I doubt it would even launch. :D