Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Old 14-10-2009, 11:26   #3807
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Post Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Originally Posted by cwj2008 View Post
spoke to vm this morning and they say that the viewing cards are Not being updated.
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Originally Posted by cwj2008 View Post
was not just CS i rang 151 as well to see what they said and also they knew nothing about this , so the video on utube must be a wind up
There is a big difference between "are not being updated" and "knew nothing about this" and it is not unusual for CS or faults to be (almost) the last to know about such changes.

Never believe a rumour until it's officially denied.

Has anyone tried to access http://www.virginmedia.com/smatrcards/ yet? Maybe I'm just jumping the gun and it's not an official page for public consumption yet.

Anyway, Sky have been issuing new cards, chorus:ntl (upc) in Ireland have already done so therefore one would expect VM to follow suit fairly soon.

I've never had my ntl: branded card changed even when I had a replacement STB so I guess I'm due a shiny new one. I don't know why, but it has £32.00 credit on it. I think money does come off it if you buy a movie but is then miraculously credited back at some stage. I wonder if I bought ten movies in one day / month if it would say I was out of credit.

Yes, postal disputes and Christmas are likely to interfere with any planned rollout of smartcards but I imagine that a goal of year end would still seem desireable and achievable to VM.

I don't know if any of this applies to FreeSat or FreeView as none of their programming is encrypted but I imagine they still have viewing cards in the boxes.
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