Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009) - Page 22

hansi · 19-02-2009, 06:56

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Has anyone got any ideas, when ITV on demand is coming to out boxes, or HD for that matters, VM are so slow, l think a snale could beat them.

What's a snale?

Woodite · 19-02-2009, 08:14

A Snale is a like a Snail but only slower because it is blind due to the fact it has no eye!!

hansi · 19-02-2009, 08:29

Eye, eye, got you

daveetwo · 19-02-2009, 09:39

Next tuesday sounds like a wished for date according to media boy in another thread i believe.

Rillington · 19-02-2009, 18:58

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Originally Posted by demented

Geez, that's really bad. That should definitely get sorted.

Indeed, hence me eqnuiring as whether VM customers in former ntl areas will ever be getting the BBC News multiscreen.

Felim_Doyle · 19-02-2009, 22:13

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Originally Posted by Rillington

Indeed, hence me eqnuiring as whether VM customers in former ntl areas will ever be getting the BBC News multiscreen.

It's very frustrating when they say "If you're a digital viewer ...", which I am, but I don't have the feature that those in other areas or on other platforms do have.

What is the reason for the absence of BBC News Multi-Screen in ex-NTL areas anyway? Surely the STB can't be the problem so it must be this Bromley/Langley platform business then, is it?

Media Boy UK · 20-02-2009, 12:53

Discovery is to launch a new channel called 'Discovery Shed' next month, it has been announced.

The new service, which goes live on March 20, aims to be "the place for men who like good old practical activities to escape to".

The new addition takes the number of distinct channels in Discovery's UK portfolio to 12.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas...d-channel.html

Story from Digitalspy.

Media Boy thinks: unless Discovery Shed is an new name for Discovery Realtime Extra it may not launch on Virgin TV.

20-02-2009, 16:06

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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

It's very frustrating when they say "If you're a digital viewer ...", which I am, but I don't have the feature that those in other areas or on other platforms do have.

What is the reason for the absence of BBC News Multi-Screen in ex-NTL areas anyway? Surely the STB can't be the problem so it must be this Bromley/Langley platform business then, is it?

I dont get it either as we can get sports multiscreen... so what's the diffference???

frogstamper · 21-02-2009, 23:54

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Media Boy thinks: unless Discovery Shed is an new name for Discovery Realtime Extra it may not launch on Virgin TV.

The sad fact is Media Boy they never do....yet another new channel for Sky.

dodgem22 · 22-02-2009, 08:43

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Originally Posted by frogstamper

The sad fact is Media Boy they never do....yet another new channel for Sky.

Totally agree every time i hear of a new channel about to launch my heart sinks when 9 out of 10 times it will be sky only. Granted some of the channels that launch are not worth having but a lot of them are.

cablestrider · 22-02-2009, 10:46

it's just so annoying that we miss out on a lot, even if an individual thinks they're not worth it anyhow. But that's not the point - a certain channel might not appeal much to me so i think it's not worth having, but it might appeal to another... iyswim? There's no excuse, cable should get the channels. Really angry at Sky/VM!

Andrewcrawford23 · 22-02-2009, 17:10

its nothng to do with sky or virgin it to do with teh broadcaster they only need to pay for a epg slot on sky and need to negeotie amunt they want virgin to pay them for the channel and sometime sthey are quite unrealistic

huxleypiguk · 22-02-2009, 18:42

I do think folks don't get how these channels are launched. An epg slot costs a tiny amount but Virgin have to pay for the channels. Of course they will go to Sky first, it's a lot more simple to just set it up and away you go.

If it was a level playing field then I would agree, but it's a bit like Man U playing Merthyr Town with Merthyr having their legs tied together !

demented · 22-02-2009, 18:55

That's all very well, however there's a long history of stuff not coming. Sci-fi and History channel wait was years on Telewest. As was the extra movie channels. Still waiting for TCM2 here, it's nearly 3 years! A couple of months is understandable, things measured in years is not, that's why people are so cheesed off on the HD issue too.

Arthurgray50@blu · 22-02-2009, 20:45

We always have this problem with new channels coming, All Sky viewers have this luck, that when a new channel comes out, it goes onto Sky.

This is why VM are so far behind in the media business, each time l switch on Sky, there is a new channel, but with VM you have to wait months or even a few years, all this talk of new channels coming on, so where are they.

I was told by an engineer, that we have the tech' to get as many channels as possible.