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royaltiger · 19-06-2009, 12:03

Virgin had the choice to go with mpeg4 but opted to use mpeg2 instead, that was the first sign of a lack of inteligence and investment in technology from virgin, what they should be doing now is replacing the old V+ and passing that onto customers with just the standard samsung set top, and introducing a V+ with the latest technology built in, including a blu-ray player and a hard drive capacity of at least the size of a terrabyte, then people might start to take them seriously but we all know its not going to happen, when you cannot negotiate to get ITV HD or channel4 when its launched you know your on a loser. Unfortunately the latest technology offering from Virgin is +1 channels which they seem to think is the icing on the cake in their tv department, I think I have now come up with a better technical offering, and it will alse free up this so called precious bandwith,why dont we scrap the normal channels and just keep the +1 channels but treat them as normal channels , I am sure it will work ,until some bright spark of course reintroduces the +1 system again.

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royaltiger Inactive Join Date: Nov 2005 Services: 50mb Broadband Ambit VMNG300 modem, Tivo, V+TVDrive Extra Large and NTL phone, Virgin mobile Posts: 689	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009) Virgin had the choice to go with mpeg4 but opted to use mpeg2 instead, that was the first sign of a lack of inteligence and investment in technology from virgin, what they should be doing now is replacing the old V+ and passing that onto customers with just the standard samsung set top, and introducing a V+ with the latest technology built in, including a blu-ray player and a hard drive capacity of at least the size of a terrabyte, then people might start to take them seriously but we all know its not going to happen, when you cannot negotiate to get ITV HD or channel4 when its launched you know your on a loser. Unfortunately the latest technology offering from Virgin is +1 channels which they seem to think is the icing on the cake in their tv department, I think I have now come up with a better technical offering, and it will alse free up this so called precious bandwith,why dont we scrap the normal channels and just keep the +1 channels but treat them as normal channels , I am sure it will work ,until some bright spark of course reintroduces the +1 system again.