Originally Posted by jj20x (Post 35851090)

The head of tv acquisitions has apparently been reading old posts on the coming soon thread and has been busy acquiring foreign language content to entertain viewers during drunken evenings in their boxrooms. :D

Originally Posted by jj20x (Post 35851119)

*sigh*

Misunderstood completely as the frequency tests are actually channels although not "new to virgin" just duplicates of VMs internal preview channels. I've also said that the BBC Olympic channels are running in the background.

Fox News, Arabic Hafla and the additional NDTV channels have been added to Service Description Tables. A quick explanation, the SDT lists service names, the type of service (TV or Audio basically) and it also lists the transport stream that the services are carried on and the service IDs. (A blind scan on a tv with a cable tuner would read these tables and add placeholders for the channels in case they ever appear).

On checking the transport stream IDs referred to in the SDT, the service IDs for Fox News, Arabic Hafla and the additional NDTV channels don't exist. It really depends on what you call a test. If you feel that the presence of a channel name on internal SI tables qualifies as a test, then feel free to consider this a test. If you feel that a test would involve carrying actual video and audio streams across the national network, these aren't tests.

I really wonder if you actually read my comment before submitting that reply. If you consider these to be tests, then testing a tv channel without video and audio wouldn't be a very advanced stage of testing.

It's a bit like being handed a treasure map, making your way to a remote island and finding an empty hole someone had started digging. The treasure isn't there yet!

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35851125)

When we get info from Media Boy Sources that new "SDT" names of channels appear we like to tell everyone unless we are told Do Not Post.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35851122)

This is about all that Nollywood is fit for. The other night there was an amateurishly made film on. It seemed to be about an uncle in a black family where it couldn't be decided if he had been possessed by an evil spirit or had become mentally ill!

The reason? He had taken to wearing womens clothing and shouting back at those who were shouting at him. There wasn't really an ending...

I imagine that these are the sort of people who would complain about prejudice based on race/colour :shocked:

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35851162)

The biggest problems that l have with VM.Is pure and simple.

There staff are rude and pathetic. The CS, is one of the worst departments that l have ever had to deal with.

There Engineers, are poor. And when my mother In Law, had trouble with her box. The guys that turned up didn't have a clue at what to do.

And l have seen some of there handiwork.

And VM treat customers as if we had bottomless pockets. And give us crap channels. Instead od channels that the customer wants.

Each day l go to Hounslow, l see the Sky guys offering deals. I always try and get my wife to switch back to Sky.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35851162)

The biggest problems that l have with VM.Is pure and simple.

There staff are rude and pathetic. The CS, is one of the worst departments that l have ever had to deal with.

There Engineers, are poor. And when my mother In Law, had trouble with her box. The guys that turned up didn't have a clue at what to do.

And l have seen some of there handiwork.

And VM treat customers as if we had bottomless pockets. And give us crap channels. Instead od channels that the customer wants.

Each day l go to Hounslow, l see the Sky guys offering deals. I always try and get my wife to switch back to Sky.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35851162)

The biggest problems that l have with VM.Is pure and simple.

There staff are rude and pathetic. The CS, is one of the worst departments that l have ever had to deal with.

There Engineers, are poor. And when my mother In Law, had trouble with her box. The guys that turned up didn't have a clue at what to do.

And l have seen some of there handiwork.

And VM treat customers as if we had bottomless pockets. And give us crap channels. Instead od channels that the customer wants.

Each day l go to Hounslow, l see the Sky guys offering deals. I always try and get my wife to switch back to Sky.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35851197)

Yes, if you are polite to them, they are polite and helpful back. I have absolutely no complaints about Virgin's customer services.

Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35851176)

Be wary sometimes the grass isn't always greener on the otherside.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35851162)

I always try and get my wife to switch back to Sky.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35851207)

Spot on. Go in with the right attitude and you'll get the right results. No harm in charm. :)

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Yes, your current provider has a really bizarrely extreme range of views ranging from excellent to poor. http://www.broadband.co.uk/broadband...s/sse/reviews/

Originally Posted by heavyside (Post 35851184)

I do wish Virgin Media were as quick to introduce new technology as their principal rival.