Thread: 4K UHD on Virgin Media
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Old 04-09-2020, 21:28   #1241
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Re: UHD on Virgin Media

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Originally Posted by cheekyangus View Post
Red Button UHD was available on Sky when the VM/Sky deal was announced. The wording of the VM/Sky deal, to my recollection and interpretation, was that new UHD that Sky was still to launch themselves was part of the VM deal. Which suggested to me that linear UHD channels were on the way. I assumed this would be one 4K Cinema channel and one 4K Sports channel, and an outside chance of a 4K Entertainment channel. Though I really didn't expect the latter.

The wording of the announcement (as I remember it) implied was that it was something that wasn't currently available via their own satellite service at the time of the Press Release.
Here is a press release from Sky at the time.
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