Do you supplement your VMtv with another platform?
 

Soon I will be moving and this is to a VM cable area so I can continue my current sub.

However my family will be expanding and so my parent will be around more often. It would be nice to have tv channels they can watch too. There are quite a few channels that they watch that are FTA so VM don't carry them. My options are Freesat (but some channels still missing) or FTA by Sky which includes all channels but if I'm paying for a dish I may as well ditch VMtv for Sky as it would be cheaper this way. But then I will lose a couple of features I like on VM (VoD and ESPN) so this is a bit confusing.

So I was just wondering if any of you guys have an additional platform to your VM? If so which one and how do you find it?

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Additional to VM and tend to flick between FreeSat and a FTA Sat system depending on my mood. Handy for the extra news channels and music channels which VM don't carry.

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I have a Sky box that I use for Premier Sports

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I use a SkyHD box for the free channels.

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I use FreeviewHD here. I use the VM box for on demand only now.

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I have the internet and a bunch of TV torrent sites to supplement my VMtv :D

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Freeview in the bedroom.

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You naughty boy LOL :D

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Setup your Virgin box through Windows Media Center then the recorded programmes will be viewable in any room with an Xbox or PC. Combine with Freesat and Freeview tuner cards in a main htpc and wa-la.

Kind of expensive but if its for the long term then why not.

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I have a Dell Zino running windows 7 through my Tv how do I set my box up with Windows media centre ?

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Hauppauge HD PVR. If you have a SA V+HD box then you can plug that straight in, otherwise you'd have to buy a HDFury (for HDMI to Component) which does make you question the cost.

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Do you have two separate dishes and STB's?

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I dont know if any one is interested, but i have one of these in very good nick that i have been meaning to put on ebay for ages...

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P.S. Freesat HD, we have (most) of the sky movies channels in HD, but my mrs just watches true movies...? On Freesat you can get True Movies 2.

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I suppliment my Sky TV with VM

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I use a Humax Freesat HD PVR. It has a few niggles but has proved very reliable and rock steady. It has two tuners just like the new Tivo.

OK DF I know that there is a possibility that a third tuner may be "Coming Soon" to the VM Tivo.;)

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No, TiVo has a 3rd tuner already, it's just not activated until next month. ;)

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I use a Freesat HD box in my bedroom,conected to a recordable dvd player with built in freeview.Serves me very well as a supliment to my virgin services.

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What channels do you get on there that you don't get on XLTV?
I guess you don't care about Sky Atlantic then!

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Ha! No - I just unscrew the sat cable and swap it over :tu:

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[QUOTE=brooza;35180837]What channels do you get on there that you don't get on XLTV?

Quite a few music channels , CBS more news channels , couple of kids.

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Yes, the WDTV & Samsung Lovefilm-app platforms. ;)

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Yes, I use an Apple TV linked to a US iTunes account. It lets me rent the latest films, and TV episodes cost only $0.99 per episode - lots of BBC stuff available too. Using Apple TV I can also stream movies and iTunes music from my computer to watch on my HDTV and listen through my surround sound system. All very seamless and a bargain at 99 quid!

Note Apple TV does not do live TV.

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Got Freeview HD as a back up in the living room if V+ dies, I also have Apple tv playing iTunes content through home sharing with my mac, don't rent them but iTunes HD film rentals are 50p cheaper than FilmFlex. In the bedroom I have a split second roof ariel feed into my mac using Eyetv Freeview tv solution.

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Got a WD TV Live and a 4TB NAS box for christmas and am loving it. I do have fight the kids who are working their way through every Peppa Pig, Mr Men and Clangers episode I've ripped from DVD...

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I have a Sony HD TV that is hooked to the internet via my VM Cable Modem. This gives me access to some VOD and films (Lovefilm and others). Interestingly a lot of the VOD stuff, e.g. BBC Iplayer shows recent stuff quicker than VM does on its platform, which is useful if you just missed something.

Quality seems as good at VM VOD for IPlayer at least if you choose the high def option (which is not true HD I know).

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I have a twin tuner Freeview + with dynamic epg and a 500GB hard drive which upscales everything to 1080i and a DVD recorder as back up. I also can use my laptop to access all sorts.

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I think I'll probably go for Freesat for the news channels and a couple of other channels not on VM.

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I use apple Tv as well and tvcatchup on my ipad for freeview channels not on vm like movies4men. The catchuptv airplays video to the apple tv too.

Regards

John.

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only freeview as it is builtin to tv

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I mostly use the freeview tuner in my Sony DVD/HD recorder .. the Virgin service I use rarely these days!
I've only got the standard box that came free with the phone service to be fair though.

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I also use my old Sky HD box as a Freesat HD box.
They call it Freesat from Sky and you get more channels
than a freesat system and it's free if you have an old
sky box and card.

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What channels do you get on your sky freesat that isn`t on the other one? Also,if I bought one from e-bay with a sky card included do you know if it would work straight away(conected to my freesat dish) or would i need to pay sky to re-activate the card?

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Freesat listing
http://www.freesat.co.uk/what-you-get/our-channels
Listing taken from here for Freesat from Sky
http://www.wildsat.com/
ENTERTAINMENT
101 BBC 1
102 BBC 2
103 ITV 1
104 Channel 4
115 BBC Three
116 BBC Four
118 ITV 2
119 ITV 3
120 ITV 4
131 ITV 1 +1 hour
134 S4C (C4 Wales)
135 Channel 4 +1 hour
136 E4
137 E4 +1 hour
138 More4
139 More4 +1 hour
146 CBS Reality
147 CBS Reality +1 hour
148 CBS Action
149 CBS Drama
157 Film 24
166 Information TV
168 BBC Alba
179 ITV 2 +1 hour
180 ITV 3 +1 hour
184 BEN
188 True Entertainment
189 Information TV +1 hour
190 Open Access 3
191 BET
195 Propeller
198 BET +1 hour
199 Open Heavens TV
200 Controversial TV
201 Showcase
203 Showcase 2
204 HiTV
212 Sumo TV
218 Vox Africa
219 My Channel

LIFESTYLE & CULTURE
251 Travel Channel
252 Travel Channel +1 hour
262 Food Network
263 Food Network +1 hour
266 Wedding TV
267 ?TV
271 Luxury Life
275 Body In Balance
280 Horse & Country
281 The Active Channel
282 Fitness TV

MOVIES
315 Film4
316 Film4 +1 hour
319 Horror Channel
320 Horror Channel +1 hour
321 True Movies 1
322 True Movies 2
323 Movies4Men
324 Movies4Men +1 hour
325 Movies4Men 2
326 Movies4Men 2 +1 hr

MUSIC
365 Chart Show TV
366 The Vault
367 Flava
369 Vintage TV
370 Channel AKA
371 Starz TV
372 Bliss
374 Scuzz
376 Dance Nation TV
378 Lava
382 NME TV
383 Clubland TV
385 WTF


NEWS
501 Sky News
502 Bloomberg
503 BBC News
504 BBC Parliament
505 CNBC
506 CNN
508 Euronews
510 CCTV News
512 Russia Today
513 France 24
514 Al Jazeera English
515 Press TV
516 NHK World TV

DOCUMENTARIES
539 Community Channel

CHRISTIAN
580 GOD Channel
581 Revelation
582 Wonderful
583 TBN Europe
584 Daystar
586 UCB TV
587 Inspiration Network
588 Loveworld TV
589 EWTN
590 Gospel Channel
591 Word Network
593 Faith World TV
594 KICC TV
596 Believe TV
597 Olive TV

CHILDREN’S
613 CBBC Channel
614 CBeebies
616 POP
617 Tiny Pop
621 CITV
625 Tiny Pop +1 hour
626 Pop Girl
627 Kix!
629 Pop Girl +1 hour

SHOPPING
640 QVC
641 JML Direct
642 JML Cookshop
643 TV Shop
644 Ideal World
645 price-drop.tv
646 Pitch TV
647 Retail Therapy TV
648 High Street TV
649 Best Direct
650 Jewellery Channel
651 Ideal Extra
652 Gems TV
653 JML Home & DIY
654 bid tv
655 Jewellery Maker
656 Gems TV Extra
657 Pitch World
658 QVC Beauty
659 Shop on TV
660 Thane Direct
663 Stop + Shop
664 V Channel
665 Speedauction TV
666 Rocks & Co 1
667 JML Choice
668 Ideal & More
671 Create & Craft
677 Celebrity Shop
680 Screenshop 2
682 Entrepreneur

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
781 B4U Music
785 PCNE Chinese
787 mta – muslim tv
789 Zing
792 PTV Prime
793 MATV National
796 Abu Dhabi TV
801 Record TV (Brazil)
802 DM Digital
803 Hidayat TV
805 Venus TV
806 ARY News
810 PTV Global
813 Islam Channel
814 Channel ‘S’
819 Noor TV
820 Peace TV
822 Music India
823 Al Jazeera Children
826 Iqra TV
827 ATN Bangla UK
828 Ummah Channel
830 Sunrise TV
831 NDTV Imagine
832 Glory TV
833 Brit Asia TV
834 Nepali TV
835 Supreme Master
836 Ahlebait TV
838 Madani Chnl
840 Sikh Channel
841 Peace TV Urdu
842 Ahlulbayt TV
843 UCTV
844 Channel i
845 Takbeer TV
847 Sangat
848 Sikh TV
849 Aastha

GAMING & DATING
860 Jackpot Games
861 Gala TV
866 Super Casino
869 SmartLive
875 Dating Channel
876 GayDate TV
877 Gay Network
878 Chat Box

SPECIALIST
883 Renault TV
885 Watch Me TV.TV
886 Psychic TV
888 Ocean Finance

ADULT
902 Tease Me TV 2
906 Babestation
908 Babeworld TV
909 Get Lucky TV
910 Lucky Star
911 RedLightZone 1
914 Elite TV 2
920 Dirty Talk
921 Filth
922 Cream
933 Girls Gone Wild
948 RedLightZone 2
949 House of Fun
950 LivexxxBabes
951 Blue Kiss TV
952 The Other Side
954 Northern Birds
955 Essex Babes
960 Live 960
965 Elite TV
966 Club Paradiso
967 SportxxxGirls

REGIONS
971 BBC 1 Scotland
972 BBC 1 Wales
973 BBC 1 N.Ireland
974 BBC 1 London
975 BBC 1 North East
976 BBC 1 Yorkshire
977 BBC 1 E Yorks & Lincs
978 BBC 1 North West
979 BBC 1 West Midlands
980 BBC 1 East Midlands
981 BBC 1 East (East)
982 BBC 1 East (West)
983 BBC 1 South East
984 BBC 1 South (So’ton)
985 BBC 1 South (Oxford)
986 BBC 1 West
987 BBC 1 South West
988 BBC 1 Channel Islands
989 BBC 2 England
990 BBC 2 Scotland
991 BBC 2 Wales
992 BBC 2 N.Ireland

AUDIO
0101 BBC Radio 1
0102 BBC Radio 2
0103 BBC Radio 3
0104 BBC Radio 4 FM
0105 BBC Radio 5 Live
0106 Classic FM
0107 Absolute Radio
0108 Talk Sport
0109 Capital
0110 Planet Rock
0111 Heart 106.2
0112 LBC 97.3
0113 XFM
0114 Choice FM
0115 BBC World Service
0116 BBC Radio Scotland
0117 BBC Radio Wales
0118 BBC Radio Ulster
0119 BBC Asian Network
0120 BBC 6 Music
0121 Gold
0122 WRN Europe
0123 Premier Radio
0124 LBC News
0125 UCB UK
0128 Smooth Radio
0129 Solar Radio
0130 Panjab Radio
0131 BBC Radio 7
0133 Sunrise Radio
0134 UCB Bible
0135 UCB Gospel
0136 UCB Inspirational
0137 BBC Radio 1Xtra
0138 TWR
0139 BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
0142 RTE Radio 1 Extra
0143 BBC Radio 4 LW
0144 BBC R5 Live Sport Extra
0146 Real Radio (Wales)
0147 EWTN
0150 Sukh Sagar
0151 Khushkhabri
0152 BBC Radio London
0154 BBC Radio Cymru
0156 Calvary Chapel Radio
0158 Gaydar Radio
0159 Family Radio
0160 RTE Radio 1
0164 RTE 2FM
0165 RTE Lyric fm
0166 RTE R na Gaeltachta
0168 Amar Radio
0169 Desi Radio
0173 Kismat Radio
0176 Amrit Bani
0177 Chill
0178 Kiss
0180 Magic 105.4
0184 NME Radio
0185 Spectrum 1
0186 Liberty Radio
0187 Punjabi Radio
0188 Insight Radio
0199 Radio Caroline
0200 Absolute 80s
0201 Absolute Classic Rock
0202 Jazz FM
0203 Absolute Radio 90s
0205 RCR
0206 Record Radio (Brazil)
0207 Rainbow
0209 Yorkshire Radio
0210 Newstalk (Ireland)
0211 BFBS Radio 1
0214 UCB Ireland

HD Channels
140 Channel 4 HD
143 BBC One HD
169 BBC HD
171 Channel 5 HD
273 Luxury Life HD

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As off now Freesat + HD and V+ free channels and espn added on plus sony blu ray player for other on demand content in the living room and a freesat HD box in the bedroom must admit it took me and the missus a lot off thought dumping the pay side of tv and must admit it was the best decision we have ever made and not looked back since.

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Very true sky have a bigger listing most off the fta that are not on freesat can be added via non freesat mode also if you have a sky + box you have to sky £10 per month to record with freesat its free.

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Yeh that is correct but was just really to show that if you have your old
sky box you can get this lot at no extra charge

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True.;)

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thanks for that

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If I could get some legal version of football online I would cut my services from VM. I currently sup my Virgin with Lovefilm. With this latest Amazon thing in the US and with them buying Lovefilm as well the TV and film market is going to get very interesting. The blur between TV and IPTV is bluring all the time.