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andrewstevenson 23-04-2016 14:09

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 
When the new TiVo box launches will this include Virgin or will virgin be the only company not allowed

The deal will cover a variety of Sky services, from subscription channels such as Sky Movies and Sky Cinema, to transactional services such as Sky Story and Sky Select, and finally streaming services such as Now TV and Sky Online.

In other words, anywhere you can currently watch a movie on Sky will be covered by this deal. As for UHD, Sky promises it will be switching on 4K for Q customers this Summer.

blue666666 23-04-2016 14:45

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praying that virgin are able to give me a 4k channel even its a sky or BT one not just a add on like net flix.

andrewstevenson 23-04-2016 14:47

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That's the question will Virgin be allowed to carry sky movies 4k and considering the upcoming price rise it be cheeky not to

blue666666 23-04-2016 15:19

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the question is were the content comes from the only 4k on BT is football is there a enough 4k moives for a channel.hopefully virgin are working on this.

andrewstevenson 23-04-2016 15:40

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Quote:

Originally Posted by blue666666 (Post 35833898)
the question is were the content comes from the only 4k on BT is football is there a enough 4k moives for a channel.hopefully virgin are working on this.

But sky have just signed a deal with Sony with includes 4K content

theone2k10 23-04-2016 16:06

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Quote:

Originally Posted by blue666666 (Post 35833898)
the question is were the content comes from the only 4k on BT is football is there a enough 4k moives for a channel.hopefully virgin are working on this.

No 4k content for vm info at this moment in time.

DaMac 24-04-2016 10:18

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VM will probably get access to sky 4k when 8k is set to launch... Oh dear.

denphone 24-04-2016 10:21

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Nice to see the pessimism setting in again....;)

1andrew1 24-04-2016 10:30

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35834000)
Nice to see the pessimism setting in again....;)

:D Two new Tivos to be launched and an expanding network and people are worrying about hypotheticals! And a month's free football for everyone in the UK with Euro 2016 starting in a couple of months. Let's see what the year has in store before getting too negative about deals that haven't even been discussed yet.

theone2k10 24-04-2016 11:33

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Originally Posted by DaMac (Post 35833997)
VM will probably get access to sky 4k when 8k is set to launch... Oh dear.

More like when 128k is launched :p:

muppetman11 24-04-2016 13:47

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Quote:

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35834000)
Nice to see the pessimism setting in again....;)

I'd say more realistic , whilst you can never say never I'd be amazed if any of Sky's 4K content arrives on anything other than its own platform.

RichardCoulter 24-04-2016 14:18

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DaMac (Post 35833997)
VM will probably get access to sky 4k when 8k is set to launch... Oh dear.

Some analysists say that 4k is viewed merely as a stepping stone to 8k, with many companies bypassing it altogether.

In March 2014 VM were in "wait and see mode" to see if 4k would be popular enough to be worth investing in.

passingbat 24-04-2016 14:49

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35834055)
I'd say more realistic , whilst you can never say never I'd be amazed if any of Sky's 4K content arrives on anything other than its own platform.

I have to agree.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35834068)
Some analysists say that 4k is viewed merely as a stepping stone to 8k, with many companies bypassing it altogether.

.

People need to start reserving a full wall for their TVs then, given that experts say that 4k, at normal viewing distance gives no significant picture quality unless the 4k TV is at least a 65" set. ;):D

RichardCoulter 24-04-2016 14:54

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Yep, I think that's the way it's going.

With 8k supposed to be the maximum that the human eye can appreciate, it wouldn't surprise me if TV technology then went holographic.

OLD BOY 24-04-2016 14:59

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35833914)
No 4k content for vm info at this moment in time.

I would be surprised if the new Tivo did not have 4K capability.

If so, it stands to reason that we will have 4K content, just maybe not courtesy of Sky.


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