Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

[busboy125]

Originally Posted by LiamTG

OK,

I see this as possibly the best thread on here and I have spoken a little out of turn about members/staff etc and when needed appologised.

I wish we could simply drop the pops at each other and in fact lets lave HD out of this thread all together - it's clearly a hung decision!

Peace

Liam

Here, here

[Media Boy UK]

This weeks list update now online - see post one.

[Media Boy UK]

The BBC web site has now got this up:

WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU
ESPN's matches will be available on BSkyB.
You will pay an extra amount for the ESPN matches.
Games likely to be on a new branded ESPN channel - separate from the existing ESPN Classic and ESPN America.
ESPN wants it on platforms other than BSkyB and is in talks with Virgin Media, though BT is yet to comment.

Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8113702.stm

[virginruinedntl]

it had better not be 544x576 and fullscreen! hoping for 720x576 widescreen and 4mbps+ bitrate. ESPN HD would be nice, rather unlikely i think though.

[Nook29]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if ESPN HD is available on Virgin Media in time for the new season. It's a given.

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by Nook29

I wouldn't be at all surprised if ESPN HD is available on Virgin Media in time for the new season. It's a given.

I can absolutely assure you Nook that nothing is a given when it comes to HD and VM, your right that it should be a given but after so so many false dawns the safest bet is to expect absolutely bupkis.

[virginruinedntl]

+1

[Nook29]

Originally Posted by frogstamper

I can absolutely assure you Nook that nothing is a given when it comes to HD and VM, your right that it should be a given but after so so many false dawns the safest bet is to expect absolutely bupkis.

ESPN will do what they can to get a HD channel onto as many services as possible, and VM will want it too.

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by musicbravo

Sadly i am not joking about the choice of music thing. It really does go along the lines of press 1 for dance press 2 for rap press 3 for indie/rock etc. I doubt this was the suprise though. Maybe this is the unlimited music launch we have been hearing about of late

VM have had the music preference option for years. It's not the 'big surprise' but it is a minor but novel improvement on other call handling systems.

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

You are confusing VMtv and VM. They are only loosely related. Living HD is a priority for VMtv, because it is one of their channels, unlike History, NatGeo and Discovery. This tells you nothing about the priorities for VM.

On the other hand, Living is more popular than the other three put together, so maybe it should be a priority

Based on what statistics?

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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

but bear in mind that technolgoy can advance very quickly this is esitmate on the current technology advancments

Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

It applies equally well to most technologies.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

Based on what statistics?

These

[sherer]

Originally Posted by Nook29

I wouldn't be at all surprised if ESPN HD is available on Virgin Media in time for the new season. It's a given.

and where exactly is your source for this ? Is there even any mention of ESPN filming or even launching a HD channel ?

Not saying it isn't going to happen but with no source of confirmation you've basically just made that statement up

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by LiamTG

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.

[Sir John Luke]

Originally Posted by sherer

and where exactly is your source for this ? Is there even any mention of ESPN filming or even launching a HD channel ?

Not saying it isn't going to happen but with no source of confirmation you've basically just made that statement up

http://www.espn.co.uk/

So it looks as if Sky will not have the sole rights to this new ESPN channel...In which case VM really has better pull out all the stops to get it on their platform.

It may be their only chance to get (what some perceive) to be the most popular sport i.e football in High Def on their platform withbout being beholden to Sky.

If they fail to deliver ESPN HD then it really does show that

1)They dont give a stuff about us or HD
2) They will happily look a gift horse in the mouth.
3) Thy're just a bit rubbish really when it comes to TV HD

[ilovehd]

Dont get to excited it does just say a selection of games in hd!