Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Old 23-06-2009, 08:16   #1467
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Post Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Originally Posted by LiamTG View Post
We DO deserve them - the majority of people were SOLD HD by Vrigin Media. Remember the ads? HD: VM1 : Sky0

Or is this another sweep under the carpet thing. Stop lying for VM - they don't give a damn, they are up for sale for crying out loud, they will NOT upgrade any channels they will sell up as they are.

Best thing that can happen is for Sky to buy them out - which won't happen as the only things in the UK that can have a monopoly are banks and Tesco!
Surely by now we are all aware of the distinction between Virgin Media (www.VirginMedia.com), provider of Broadband, Mobile, Telephone and Television services, and Virgin Media Television (www.VirginMediaTV.co.uk), broadcaster and owner of Living, Bravo, Virgin 1, Challenge and their variants (the Virgin Media Television Channels).

As for the UKTV channels ...

UKTV is a joint venture between the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, and Virgin Media Television. Both companies additionally wholly-own a number of other channels, broadcast domestically or internationally.

Channels under the joint venture are Alibi, Blighty, Dave, Eden, G.O.L.D., UKTV Food, Really, Home, Watch, Yesterday plus a number of timeshift services. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televis...d_Kingdom#UKTV)

Let's try to distinguish between VM TV (currently up for sale) which may launch HD variants of their channels (e.g. Living HD) on some or all platforms (e.g. Freeview, FreeSat, Sky, VM etc.) and VM (not currently up for sale) which may carry HD channels from a number of sources including BBC, ITV, C4, Five, Sky, VM TV and various other sport, movie and documentary channels.

There is a similar but less distict division between the Sky television channels and the Sky satellite service. You can have the Sky channels without having a Sky satellite dish by watching them on VM cable and you can have the VM TV channels (e.g. Living, Virgin 1 etc.) without having VM cable by watching them via a Sky satellite dish. Other viewing platforms, carrying a subset of both the Sky and the VM TV channels, are also available.
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