The VM HD Discussion Thread - Page 2

LiamTG · 24-02-2009, 19:39

I agree, what investment?

Basically VM appear dissinterested in HD - they appear very interested in all these pants +1 channels. The on demand gear is brilliant, although the HD stuff needs updating (no not movies). All in all they would rather have 50mb broadband which no one really needs, wants or could really take advantage of.

Gadgie · 24-02-2009, 19:57

The subject of the amount of people switching over to Sky for the H/D content, is being discussed on another thread called "I have switched"
Yet, you are right about VM being more interested in the 50Meg Internet.

Stephen · 24-02-2009, 23:49

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Originally Posted by LiamTG

I agree, what investment?

Basically VM appear dissinterested in HD - they appear very interested in all these pants +1 channels. The on demand gear is brilliant, although the HD stuff needs updating (no not movies). All in all they would rather have 50mb broadband which no one really needs, wants or could really take advantage of.

Virgin are more interested in HD than you think!

Things will certainly get a lot better in the next 2 months thats all I shall say.

50MB is not all they are working on or care about!

sammyjayuk · 25-02-2009, 00:14

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Virgin are more interested in HD than you think!

Things will certainly get a lot better in the next 2 months thats all I shall say.

I, for one, would love to be able to believe you - but I've built up enough pessimism in the time I've been with VM to sink an aircraft carrier, and I've only been with them since last October! And anyway, they've left it so late that anything they do now is just going to be seen as playing catch up to Sky.

So what if they're secretly working on something amazing? Customers are losing faith, and that's not a position VM can afford to be in. They're being as secretive as Apple, yet not delivering - most tech companies that *do* deliver great stuff can't get away with being so secretive, so why do VM think they're anything special?

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Originally Posted by Stephen

50MB is not all they are working on or care about!

Well I should hope that they care about *all* their services, but I upgraded my broadband from L to XL 2 days ago and my internet is now significantly slower - so it seems that it's not just HD that VM appear to be ignoring!

Sam

demented · 25-02-2009, 00:18

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Virgin are more interested in HD than you think!

Things will certainly get a lot better in the next 2 months thats all I shall say.

50MB is not all they are working on or care about!

Bit of a brave thing to say 13hrs before the announcement we all know is coming!

Views vary from pessimistic that they'll be 0 HD channels for months to my own view that we will get 4 but they'll miss the deadline for some of them, right through to the (completely crazy) other end of the scale that the 15 Sky HD channels will somehow arrive in the not so distant future.

sammyjayuk · 25-02-2009, 00:31

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Originally Posted by demented

Bit of a brave thing to say 13hrs before the announcement we all know is coming!

Views vary from pessimistic that they'll be 0 HD channels for months to my own view that we will get 4 but they'll miss the deadline for some of them, right through to the (completely crazy) other end of the scale that the 15 Sky HD channels will somehow arrive in the not so distant future.

Allow me to be the pessimist then, and opine that investors will again be told that all manner of vague and fanciful things are "coming soon" - but nothing even so flimsy as the press release about Channel 4's HD content back in October 2007 will actually be announced.

I'd love for you to be able to feed me my words, though!

Sam

demented · 25-02-2009, 00:34

I'm sure "coming soon" will be in there somewhere. We should take bets on word counts

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sammyjayuk · 25-02-2009, 00:45

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Originally Posted by demented

I'm sure "coming soon" will be in there somewhere. We should take bets on word counts

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Well in that case, allow me to be the first to assure you that we'll hear "next generation *" at least three times! Funny how absolutely none of us "civilians" have any idea what that means, and also how VM never seem to elaborate...

Sam

cnewton2k · 25-02-2009, 08:13

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Originally Posted by demented

Bit of a brave thing to say 13hrs before the announcement we all know is coming!

Views vary from pessimistic that they'll be 0 HD channels for months to my own view that we will get 4 but they'll miss the deadline for some of them, right through to the (completely crazy) other end of the scale that the 15 Sky HD channels will somehow arrive in the not so distant future.

What a announcement is this then?

EBD3000 · 25-02-2009, 08:26

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Originally Posted by Solventcandy

What a announcement is this then?

VM's quarterly results are due today. They like to time big announcements like Sky Basics coming back or 50Mb broadband in these presentations. People are hoping its HD this time.

mr,m · 25-02-2009, 09:09

Even if they just did regular updates to the on demand HD stuff that would be a start,it's been the same content for months now.
No chance I know, but Sky sports HD would be a mouthwatering prospect!

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Out of interest does anyone actually need 50mb bb,apart from maybe business users?

danny85 · 25-02-2009, 09:21

vm have announced there fourth quarter results not a single reference to hd see here for the statement http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...781&highlight=

alexcopeland · 25-02-2009, 09:22

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Originally Posted by mr,m

Even if they just did regular updates to the on demand HD stuff that would be a start,it's been the same content for months now.
No chance I know, but Sky sports HD would be a mouthwatering prospect!

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Out of interest does anyone actually need 50mb bb,apart from maybe business users?

People that need to download illegal copies of movies and music using P2P.

sherer · 25-02-2009, 10:17

according to the latest figures from VM there are 521,500 V+ users of of 3.6m which is 14.4% so higher than on Sky but some of those users could be just using the service for the DVR side of things and not the upscaling \ HD side

ShadowTD · 25-02-2009, 10:53

Danny85: It's the conference call at 1pm that usually yields the interesting stuff