Happy Virgin Media day to you all
 

Happy Virgin Media day to you all:) :) ,

Now where is my new EPG (joke),

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Same to you.

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:cleader: I think we should make this a national holiday !
Time to play around on the new website and then go out and build a snowman in the snow. :)

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errm, great? :confused:

I'll wait and see. Action words louder etc.

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Channel 999? ;)

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I'm sure a lot of people will be flocking to this forum today to discuss the launch. It's going to be a big day. Let's hope it is a success.

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The official name is V-Day :)

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i car't wait what time do u think they will put it on

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The Virgin menus is SCARILLLYYYYYYY the same as ex-Telewests, but a colour change!

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Probably early morning......sometime around 6am or so.....basically once someone wakes up I guess.

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Well, Telewest always beat the pants off NTL, so that makes sense...

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Once upon a time it had to be something very significant to get this level of excitement, now it's a different coloured EPG?

Dumbing down seems to work :monkey:

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whats going to be new on it

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Yes I can't wait either. Unusual for me. ;)

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I suspet people are getting excited because they think there will be more fundamental changes than the EPG.

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I think over the coming months its gonna be a damn sight more than a new EPG.

If it was just that, they would have launched VM last year when NTL brought Virgin Mobile. Today is a BIG day for UK cable (probably the biggest day ever), hence some excitement and hopes for the future are to be found.

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Yes I expect that is it. Well i saw the channel 999 advert just now. So it's started. But more probably it's just the EPG.;)

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I just reset my modem and I don't know if it is me or not but my pages are loading A HELL of a lot faster. I think it might be me :s.

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Did you check the modem pages for info on your speed. ;)

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on it are we going to beable to rewind and pause live tv

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...Same speed so far but a couple of my friends on WLM are saying they have 20mb but I think they are lying to me.

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Yeah my speed is still the same. 2meg on my 250 modem.;)

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Yes, this is probably the biggest day in the history of UK cable services. Certainly bigger than ntl's acquisition of Cable & Wireless's consumer division, for example.

Combined with the launch of new services like VOD and the TV Drive, and with broadband generally ticking on nicely with 10mb available in most areas, things look rosy for cable services. For the first time in ages the TV service is getting close to Sky and is realising its potential.

Let's hope that the ongoing changes in the company (don't expect it all to happen overnight, today is just one more part of the process) can finally allow the cable industry to realise its potential and start making some money!

I'm not currently 100% convinced by the marketing for the new brand, or even the name, but I'm fully behind it and hope that is a success.

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I see the service status site is now Virgin Media.;)

http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/ServiceStatus/

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Nice find there!

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They killed selfcare.blueyonder.co.uk :o


Edit: ooo the holding page has errors. GREAT start :P

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Ya lol such as "Good new is" should be news. LOL.

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hey all if u have telewest press home then press red it has help for the new virgin media adverts

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http://ebill.telewest.co.uk/twebpp/MainPage.jsp also shows Virgin Media.

And is down till Feb 13th lol.

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hey all if u have telewest press home then press red it has help for the new virgin media adverts they cool

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Damn I wanted to check my BLUEYONDER email, I'm gonna COMPLAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Joke x x x :Yikes::Yikes::Yikes::Yikes::D:D:D:D

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Lets hope VM brings awesomeness to cable now.

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That depends on the advert, most times when you press that you willget the BBCHD listings and it says "Press Red to view the world in HIGH DEFINITION"

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press the guide on a telewest remote then press red and it will show all the help screen but with virgin media

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use POP or IMAP then ;)

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Lets go on the BLUEYONDER help site to find out how to configure this, oppsn not found, LETS COMPALIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jokeies :D :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:Yikes::Yikes::Yikes::dunce::dunce:: dunce::dunce::p::p::p::p:

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Does anyone else think that the Virgin Media logo looks like a giant Pringle? :/

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go to 999 now on telewest its on

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v0id first time I saw it I thought... hmm I fancy some pringles all of a sudden lol.

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999 live on ex-telewest CONFIRMED, by me ! :D

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My sister said that the other day!!!! Shes calling it the PRINGLE box now :p

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http://allyours.virginmedia.com/

:D

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i allready posted it

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That anit a bad name for it. "Move over, Show-and-show is on the PRINGLE" lol.

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10mb has 384 upload.. that better be a typo!

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Once you pop....

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i think sky two coming to telewest
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...nels_full.html

have a look at the channel list

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Happy Virgin Media Day! The upload on 10Mb looks shocking and there are grammatical errors in places... Looks rather, unprofessional in places.

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looks like those exNTL 10Mb customers are going to get their upload speed dropped from 512k to 384k instead of exTelewest 10 meggers getting an increase :(

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Wouldnt that seem stupid when NTL have been giving 4mbit users 512k uploads today? (only certain areas right now)

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Virgin Central, a revolutionary new TV channel is coming soon.

see here http://allyours.virginmedia.com/webs...ervice.do?id=1

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*Please note some channels may be subject to regional availability.

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Hopefully that's a typo. Well check your modem website for speed and upload later.

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http://allyours.virginmedia.com/whychooseus/index.html you can see the TV ads.

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The upload could be a typo. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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Hmmm, there a VIP: Complete package now that includes:

• Broadband Size: XL
• TV Size: XL
• Phone Size: XL
• Sky Sports and Movies
• Additional V set-top box
• V+ HD set-top box
• Talk International
• Talk Mobile

Virgin Mobile

• Pay Monthly Mobile
• Any handset from our range - including Lobster 700
• 500 minutes
• 1000 texts
• VIP bonus - £60 free airtime voucher

Price: £125.

The existing VIP package (for £85) is the VIP Standard pack.

Re: Happy Virgin Media day to you all
 

do we still have to get the v+ box to be able to pause live tv

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I noticed that although thats a bit too much for me although it is an awesome price for what you get.

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Too pricey for me, but I'll probably get a Virgin Mobile with 300 mins for a tenner.

You still have to enter your account number to apply for that offer I see, and then it takes to a seperate Virgin Mobile site. But the UK section of THAT site features the new VM logo and offers for TV, Broadband and Home Phone on the front page.

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Some areas have not ye tbeen uploaded it seems :p.

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....yes it is, but I wish Virgin concentrated more on the lower packages most of us are on.

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The new AUP I don't like the look of :p:.

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All bets are off regarding the new channel:

"Virgin Central, a revolutionary new TV channel is coming soon."

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Ya wonder what it is.

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Looks like they have made some mistakes on the screen with the Virgin iD channel as the Virgin media slide between the demonstrations have a bit BLURRED out at the bottom right hand side.

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Where is that?

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On Channel 999, it between demonstartion the VIRGIN logo pops up and has a small blurrered rectangle in the bottom right hand side.

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Hmm mine says virginmedia.com in the corner.

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I've noticed that on the EPG previews on the channel that ITV1 is actually named ITV1 instead of just ITV on the ex-telewest network.

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ON certain slides, SOME are blurrrrrrrrrrrrred :D

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I watched it for 15 minutes and everytime mine has virginmedia.com in the corner :s I am watching on ntl.

BTW Nice service you have their... pringle media.

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Yep.

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Im on ex-telewest and heres a image

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9467/dsc00282rv8.jpg

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That is weird. On that small spot everytime mine is showing virginmedia.com and im wtaching on the ex-ntl network if you can call it that

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Right I am off now ^_^ need to sleep long day tomorrow, I wonder what we will wake up to!!!

Goodnight to everyone.

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Virginmedia.com IS LIVE!

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Just saw as I was going off, I dunno why the SERVICE STATUS is password protected though!

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Isnt for me.

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Broadband extra also faisl to work with ex-telewest usernames and passwords.

Night.

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http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/964...estatushu7.jpg

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IF That is TRUE, im off to ADSL.

Im not saying that as a threat, its a promise.

£35 a month in the 21st Century and not getting even ½meg upload is pathetic.

I had high hopes for Virgin Media as well. Looks like were going to get the shaft of doom people :)

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Still on 10Meg :(

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I edited my proxy tool for the virgin media change :)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...3607408&page=2

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Yea...no 20mbit....still, not suprised, still same company, just a different name.

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I would quite happily take a 384k upload on 10Meg, as long as I was getting upgraded to 20meg shortly ;)

Welcome aboard Richard ;)

Give me another 3.5yrs of quality service like NTL have and u can have my £ no probs.

Upgrade me to 20meg you can have even more of my £ ;)

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I think you will find the 384k upload is a typo. :)

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no epg upload yet in birmingham.

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rofl just a name change oh and color change broadband plus is the same....way to show sky hahaha

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Happy V Day LOL! :D

Had a quick look at the virginmedia website and it looks pretty good, epg hasn't been updated though.

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Have I missed something? Did something happen overnight? Were you lot up overnight waiting for the big changeover? The Virgin Media homepage looks better than the old Blueyonder hpmepage but will it contain more up-to-date news? I give it the thumbs up at first glance. ;) I can still check my email from there even though I use outlook express but my wife and daughter delighted for they never use oulook express. I haven't decided if I will use the new email address when they introduce it. I had a quick look and it seems that my principal address is still a blueyonder one and it can't be changed. Enough for now. Must get my daughter up for school. Life goes on. Looking forward to whatever comes. :D

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i`ve been saying this all along :D

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Give them a chance...

...and they should have done something big today to show Sky, but something big could still happen today

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From experience from the website on my Virgin phone, their website isn't all that promising. Now this, tried a few things and ALREADY their mail forwarding page is not working. Are we to expect more of these?

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As i said, give them a chance to sort everything, it isn't going to be down forever, fine they should have made everything perfect at launch day, but it isn't, let them fix it

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Sales website: www.virginbroadband.com
Portal: www.virginmedia.com

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Didn't like the asound of this:
For now? I thought they'd said it wouldn't change if you didn't want it to?

They need to NOT change existing email addresses. My experience with other companies is that forcing an email change on people can be the final push that makes them change supplier, as it's often having to change addresses that puts people off.

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Yes, I thought that too LOL.


Woo hoooo, It is finally here. Not a bad homepage really.

If you are an NTL customor and you logged on this morning did you all get your free Virgin balloon flight to Australia and signed picture of Richard Branson ?
No ?
Oh what a shame lol.......would have been nice to get a freebie to welcome us :)

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My tv looks the same as yesterday, nothings changed atall

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This was an ideal opportunity for ntl/telewest/virgin to compete with sky and carphone/talktalk.

So what do they do? They keep their pricing the same as before.

All they really needed to do was create a package like carphone/talktalk £20/month for phoneline, unlimited uk calls & broadband and everyone would be happy.

I admit their 2mb broadband is probably better than carphone/talktalk 8mb broadband
BUT
Their TV basic package is not much better than Freeview as far as I can see.
There are plenty of cheap mobile phone alternatives.

So what are they offering new customers?

AND

What are they offering existing customers?

Re: Happy Virgin Media day to you all
 

hi all i got telewest and i am in blackpool it still the same as it was just got 2 channels for virgin media previews

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eh? it's exactly the same, all be it with a new logo and a few colours changed :/



Same here. No fancy new EPG, just that annoying bloke and the family on Channel 890 being replaced with 2 annoying guys on Channel 999

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:welcome: some here in birmingham

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on telewest tv are they not change the menu giving us a new layout couse i just got the 2 virgin media previews channels so what have they done new

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A very disappointing web site. The upload speeds are listed incorrectly - shabby.


http://allyours.virginmedia.com/webs...ervice.do?id=2


And this error is just criminally pathetic:-

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...customers.html


NOTHING HAS CHANGED EXCEPT THE NAME - IT'S JUST A REBRANDING.