Sky Anytime
 

Virgin today announced on their Facebook page that Sky Anytime is coming to Virgin Media.
But what is Sky Anytime? I did think it was like VM on demand but must be wrong if were going to be getting it.

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But the question is when as Virgin are masters at being very vague with their press releases and dates.

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Sky Anytime is what Sky called their 'On Demand' service and all it means is that their programming will be getting added to the VM On Demand service. i.e. Sky One, Sky Living programmes being made available on the VM Catch Up TV service.

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Care to make a wager Stephen on how long it is before people are complaining it is not ready yet, And as a second wager how long before the first date is posted as a rumour which then becomes FACT because it was heard from the CEO's office cleaners cat third removed :LOL:

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While it's good to have a more comprehensive catch up, I'm not too interested by this, to be honest - I series record shows I want to watch and most first run shows I watch on Sky tend to have a repeat you can catch if you miss it.

Of course if it lets us watch Sky Atlantic shows we've missed on On Demand then that would be something worth shouting about

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I agree. Especially as the repeats are in HD whereas (presumably) this isn't.

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I think this is very good news. There is a thread on the VM Help and Support Forum http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ia/td-p/623187. Apparently, XL TV subscribers will eventually be getting Sky Anytime +. This is worth it for the on-demand film library alone which will be available to Sky Movies subscribers.

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Always typical of Virgin saying Sky Anytime is coming but officially that doesn't exist anymore so possibly Virgin has signed up to Anytime but that is why Sky have changed it to SkyGo now.

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l can see that famous Virgin fog of its coming soon enveloping us again.

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Doubt Sky will let VM have Sky Atlantic on catchup when VM haven't signed up to carry the linear channel

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Sky Anytime does still exist

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/anytime/

Your getting mixed up Sky Player changed to Sky Go.

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How is it always typical?

Also it does exist still

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/anytime/

Sky Go is something else entirely

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/sky-go/

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Correct and why should they.

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Stand corrected it was just the website address I used to use for anywhere has changed to Go so presumed it had moved to all under the same banner as it was under anywhere before.

As usual its a coming soon though.
I do sometimes think they just do not learn from their previous announcements.
If they had not mentioned it or had said it will be there from next week everyone would be like that's great instead of a month later saying well where is it etc???

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sounds good just got to wait for it now

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Have you not learned that its best just to chill out and it will eventually appear. Stop getting so worked up over how long coming soon may actually mean.

Keep Calm and Carry On.

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Sorry the wager is off they have started already :D

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Many Sky shows are available on Sky Anytime in HD.

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I was meant to add some sort of wishful thinking smiley to that, obviously VM won't have Sky Atlantic on Sky Anytime as VM have decided not to procure that for their customers despite what their wishes may be.

As another poster says, why should Sky let VM get Atlantic programmes through the back door.

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Are films in HD? That would probably be something I'd use.


Keep Calm its Coming Soon.

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I don't have Sky Anytime+ as Sky have this stupid thing about having to use Sky BB to receive it but on Sky Anytime I have now about 9 movies and there all HD , they download the Sky Premiere films every week on Friday so you can watch them anytime of day and they are always in HD.

Here's a list of films I currently have on Anytime

Planet of the Apes Sky Sci Fi/Hor HD
Escape from planet of the Apes Sky Sci Fi/Hor HD
Last Tango in Paris MGM HD
Shrek Forever After Sky Prem HD
Takers Sky Prem HD
Secretariat Sky Prem HD
Knucklehead Sky Prem HD
Bolt Sky Showcase HD
How to train your dragon Sky Showcase HD

These are updated and changed through the week.

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More content is good, stop complaining! lol

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that is one of the limitations with using a saterlite signal to transmit tv signals ,by using a BB line then the customer can have more choice where as with Anytime every sky customer gets the same content and no choice such as BBC i player or On Demand content .

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Ether way you must admit that SkyAnytime is a great addition to VM's offerings. Although it has taken its time to get over to VM.

Don't forget Sky have customers taking there services via the VM network EG Customers who take sky services like Skysports/Movies or Sky's entertainment channels.

Wether directly or indirectly these people are customers of Sky and quite often pay more for less than a Sky customer getting there services via satellite.

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I know what you mean but I'm not to bothered about catchup I have this on my VM M TV , PS 3 and connected TV however I would like Anytime+ for boxsets and larger choice of movies.

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As I say I already have access to Go/Anytime anyway as I use my folks account with multiroom so this is free and they are old and do not use anything like this.
So personally doesn't matter how long or quick it is but all I'm saying is Virgin never mention a date and say coming soon and I would have thought they would have learnt their lesson now with stuff like this.

The 5HD appeared from nowhere and everyone loved it.
They may as well do that or state a date that is all I'm saying.

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This post was brought to you by Sky's Marketing Department - thank you for reading this advertorial. :D

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So glad i dont see his rubbish now :)

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More like The Conservative Party and Sky's Marketing Department.

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Me too, by quoting him people are feeding the troll.

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oh well in that case ...
My wife and i are extremely disapointed in the lack of choice and content delivered by Sky Anytime and since Anytime+ is not a workable option in my area i think the whole thing is pants and does not compare to VM's on demand service in any way

yours
a disatisfied sky customer who cannot wait till Vm comes to the area

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Indeed.

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Yeah thats a really good point Martyh, although Anytime is a push on demand service and can't really be compared to the far superior VOD offering from VIRGINMEDIA.

Again Sky's Anytime+ service is a full "pull" ondemand service comparable to VM ondemand service.

But again if you're too far from your ADSL exchange you won't get the speeds needed to stream HD content and in some case's even streaming SD content will struggle.

Where as VM has the cable network to stream its content almost ensuring a flawless hi quality service. Hopefully as openreach roll out fibre then this will improve users experience of Anytime+ and vm customers will find some great content for them on anytime as it rolls out fully.[COLOR="Silver"]

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Dont forget tho...

1. Anytime + uses sky broadband connection so if you dont pay for the premium broadband then you can only watch 3 x 30 min programmes and do nothing else on your pc all month....

2. depending on download speed it can still take a while to download the content..

VM neither of these apply. Also u can just have the TV product on its own and still get on demand...

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i don't mean to pee on anyone's parade but Sky Anytime will be a handful of programs.

its Sky Anytime+ that has the vast catalogue of stuff on demand but none of its HD.

And there you have a in a nutshell why OFCOM is a disaster

the HD content from Sky could be delivered by Virginmedia but Sky won't allow them to.

and its not technically possible to be delivered by Sky so there own customers don't get it either.

dreadful state of affairs.

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Well nothing surprises me with that big bully Sky.

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I'm sorry but I disagree , Sky Anytime has plenty of HD content and Sky have also started to include HD on Anytime+ granted there is more SD but over time more and more HD will be added , I believe many HD movies are now added to Anytime+.

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the Sky Anytime offering is pitiful.

and the anytime plus stuff would buffer and have you over your download threshold in next to no time.

dreadful all ways round.

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Won't on VM as I doubt they'll throttle the connection to the STB nor does TV content effect your (non existant) download limit.

No idea about content, I only have your and muppetman's views to go on for that. The Sky site always seems to show quite a bit available on it though.

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How would it have you over you download limit :confused: the 7.50 unlimited service allows you to watch Anytime+ content with no restrictions. Anytime+,is a pull service meaning the programme won't play until enough is downloaded , it then plays and continues downloading, I've used this at a family members house and it worked flawlessly on his 4-5mb connection. I respect your opinion we'll have to agree to disagree LOL :-)

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Is this something new as my in laws are on the basic internet with Sky and were told they could only get Anytime+ with the unlimited broadband package. They have the full movies and sports package so if that's true they really are missing out.

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that is exactly what i was talking about you have to take the top tier broadband to get it so it doesn't affect the download limit.

if you have the top tier broadband you'll have to wait on it queueing up the download before it plays - dreadful.

As for anytime the selection is so minimal it doesn't bear thinking about and that is with the top package on sky so....

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Is there anymore news on this? Think the fact we're getting a slice of Sky Anytime+ is a very good move on Virgin Media's part. A very surprising move but extremely good!!

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l think we will get it in the next couple of months but MB or MM might know more on this.:)

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Sky Anytime has launch on Virgin on Demand on TV Choice for XL Viewers but note Sky Living is only on it.

I have been given no info on when the rest will launch.

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Yes l know we have Sky Living on there but wondered whether there is a date for when the much increased content comes on there.

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Update from insider:

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Thanks MB.:D

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thanks media boy. At some point will we get sky 1 and will sky sports be on there?

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yes http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/.../623187/page/3

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thanks

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Autumn, I'll add that to the coming soon pile then :o:

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More likely that they will add it in a large update alongside the TiVo fixes and Dave/Watch HD so they can make some flyers.

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Yes you could be right.

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and Good Food HD and Eden HD as well

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Yeah but they've been on Sky for ages and aren't exactly in prime locations on the EPG. I doubt old non-entertainment section channels will get much fanfare.

sky anytime
 

Can I ask is it the full sky anytime package or will it be limited

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It has to limited as Sky Anytime and Anytime+ contains content from Sky Atlantic , Nat Geo , Disney , Discovery etc. It will more than likely be Sky Sports and Sky Movie content for the relevant subscribers and content from Sky Arts , Sky One , Sky Living.

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this is what virgin media will get

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All we have to wait for now is wait for the day we are actually going to get it.

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and when will that be?

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Well that is the sixty four dollar question.

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that sounds pretty encouraging.

but it will all be On Demand - the anytime+ part - Sky Anytime is push video that gets recorded to the Sky box.

They don't make it clear if its HD though?

Sky Anytime+ isn't HD is it?

Will Sky allow a Virgin Sky channel customer HD Movies , Sport etc on demand but not their own?

That would cause uproar.

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Sky Anytime+ has some of the movies in HD , but most other content is SD.

Any news on sky anytime news has dried up

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Coming soon :)

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:LOL: are you ex NTL

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This month?

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HHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM :confused::confused::confused::confused:

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I could arrive 'Anytime':erm:

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I am.

You do realise we never had that EPG?

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Soon very soon :)

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Lets hope so.

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I have the feeling if anyone know it's essjay. ;)

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Yes I would have to agree 100%:D

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I just came on to look for threads on this, as I just heard an advert on Sky 1 advertise a program as available 'On Demand' as opposed to 'on Sky Anytime' as they usually say. Perhaps a sign that it could be soon?

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Sky Movies Anytime on Virgin Media TV but where because l cannot access it.


http://www.virginmedia.com/movies/fe...rgin-media.php

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It's not gone live yet.

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Grr. It says available now on the website


Sky Anytime now on Virgin Media

Virgin Media and Sky Movies customers can now access loads more movies at no extra cost...

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So why is it saying that on Virgins website essjay.

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Maybe its going live today :shrug:

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One can only hope.

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Well when it does go live I will be very happy to have it. My little V+ is struggling with all the HD I record, and I have deleted many a film because I have been running so low on space. (Recording Big Brother, X-crapper and coach trip in HD for the mrs.) I will be getting Tivo but not until the new year due to financial restraints.

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I have only read the first and last pages of this thread, but it appears that I'm the only person here with Sky+ HD.

Sky Anytime is a number of selected popular programs that are available for a limited time. You can either select to watch them whenever you want, or (and this may only apply to a Sky box), you can record them and they will be stored for a limited time on your hard drive.

It appears that most of the programs that are normally on HD channels are available in HD on Sky Anytime.

In my opinion, it is a good service, but could do with increasing the number of programs available at any one time.

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Yes having a Tivo was something that l had to have as its has far more storage and many other options that their other boxes do not have.

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Essjay will we also get Sky 1 and Sky Sports added to Sky Anytme ?

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Please read post 84.

You don't add things to the list of programs on Sky Anytime. They are popular programs that Sky select. However I don't know for sure, but the list of available programs may be longer, the more channels you subscribe to.

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According to the Virgin Forums we will
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/.../623187/page/3

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Its not live yet but when it does there should be Sky One and some Sky Sports prgramming on it.

---------- Post added at 12:36 ---------- Previous post was at 12:34 ----------

VMs version will not work the same as Sky's mainly due to our VOD servers being a lot better than the way Sky operate the servicer.

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Stephen, any idea with it being posted on there own website if it will be today when it goes live?

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Is it going live today or later this week ?

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I can't say for certain but it could just be a small mistake and the webpage went online early. I haven't heard that it will be launching today or this week.

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According to that link Sky Movies on Anytime will have up to 500 Movies available so what Virgin are getting is the equivalent to Anytime+ rather than the more limited Anytime service of the Sky+ and Sky+HD boxes

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I think that it will go live for tomorrow? Just my guess?

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You are all missing the point about Sky Anytime....you don't choose which programs are available for you to view. So for example, just because you have the sports package, and your football team's game was shown on sky sports, this doesn't mean that it will be available on Sky Anytime.

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Where has anyone said they are expecting that?

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Have you not seen the info on the intranet about content?

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The Anytime+ Service VM are getting is not the same as it is on Sky. You have to download the shows to the STB where as VM have proper VOD servers that store all the programming so its available instantly and there will be over 500 Movies available to start with along with selected Sports content and stuff from Living and Sky One.

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I wonder how long it will be before we start moaning that the movies are not changed regular enough. ;)

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So if it's different from Sky Anytime, then it isn't really Sky Anytime is it?

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No it's Anytime+, which is what Sky call their bigger content service to differenciate it from the limited Anytime service on their boxes

However Virgin don't need to call it '+' as they don't have an existing Anytime service