Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009) - Page 121

13-07-2009, 15:06

Sky and VM are in 'active negotiations' over getting Living HD on Sky platform - makes sense to me... VM for once have some leverage. They may be able to negotiate a HD like for like "swap" ... maybe Sky One HD on the XL package???

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...living-hd.html

Andrewcrawford23 · 13-07-2009, 15:13

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Originally Posted by Mobes

Sky and VM are in 'active negotiations' over getting Living HD on Sky platform - makes sense to me... VM for once have some leverage. They may be able to negotiate a HD like for like "swap" ... maybe Sky HD on the XL package???

Yip

virign will want ti on sky but at the same tiem they are goign to use it to try get some of the sky hd channels the big ones, sky one, sky sport s possibel the movies, not sure of the otehrs if they are big enough to try and get but sky will want it because they do not want people possible leaving for one channel

---------- Post added at 16:13 ---------- Previous post was at 16:07 ----------

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Originally Posted by Stephen

1. Living Should launch by September
2. Launch due end of July.
3. HD Channels will only be on XL package.
4. Correct to the first part.

3. You mean like Luxe HD or CH4 HD

(no i am not sayign tha tthe ones in quesiton they are jsut examples)
4. Unless sky negetoite a price for living hd before it launches it will be a virign exculsive and that will be a good thing for virign to use.

13-07-2009, 15:14

Thats one big swap Andrew LOL

I think myself it will more likely be Sky 1 HD. Not sure Living is leverage for Sport ore Movies. Hell (or Ofcom) will freeze over B4 we get that.

Andrewcrawford23 · 13-07-2009, 15:19

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Originally Posted by Mobes

Thats one big swap Andrew LOL

I think myself it will more likely be Sky 1 HD. Not sure Living is leverage for Sport ore Movies. Hell (or Ofcom) will freeze over B4 we get that.

Well true but you can get what i mean, virign have got some power to play with sky now, sky will want livign hd as they do not want to be saying they do not, look how they mad esure they got itv

To be honest i think they will try get the sports an sky one the movies they can easily claim they have film flex which is better (i say that what they will claim not wha ti say)

TheDon · 13-07-2009, 15:43

With a deal for living HD we'll see Sky one HD and the other Sky basics HD channels coming the same way at most. There is zero chance that VM could get Sports or Movies from offering Living HD, Sky would just laugh at them if they went to the table asking for them (and rightly so).

13-07-2009, 15:48

Sky ONeHD would be very cool for the last series of Lost... apart form the odd Simpsons episode i don't really watch Sky 1.

Still hoping for Eurosport HD myself... just think on the VM headlines

"SPORT IN HD ON VIRGIN MEDIA"

It would make a lot of sense...

Andrewcrawford23 · 13-07-2009, 15:57

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Originally Posted by TheDon

With a deal for living HD we'll see Sky one HD and the other Sky basics HD channels coming the same way at most. There is zero chance that VM could get Sports or Movies from offering Living HD, Sky would just laugh at them if they went to the table asking for them (and rightly so).

Depends how much sky want living hd either way i ssupect virign will make sure they ge a really good deal out of it

sherer · 13-07-2009, 15:59

not sure how much leverage VM will have with Living HD. As we know from the past deals VM have to get their channels on Sky for the advertising revenue and reach. They can't really afford to play hard ball and lose out on viewers, even Sky found this out when their channels weren't available to VM and htey have a lower subscriber account than Sky

TheDon · 13-07-2009, 16:02

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Originally Posted by sherer

not sure how much leverage VM will have with Living HD. As we know from the past deals VM have to get their channels on Sky for the advertising revenue and reach. They can't really afford to play hard ball and lose out on viewers, even Sky found this out when their channels weren't available to VM and htey have a lower subscriber account than Sky

It's entirely different with HD channels though.

A HD channel gives you limited extra ad revenue, the adverts are the same regardless of if it's SD or HD, and if a HD channel isn't on the platform then viewers will be seeing the same ads on the SD version instead.

There's very few people that will only watch HD to make any sort of increase in the ad revenue a channel generates.

Ben B · 13-07-2009, 16:07

I was just checking if there were any channels testing (there wasn't btw) and there is a channel number 510 called Security Fraud Information, it's provisioned but you can't view it if you type the number in on the EPG. Does anyone know what this is?

Media Boy UK · 13-07-2009, 16:10

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Originally Posted by Ben B

I was just checking if there were any channels testing (there wasn't btw) and there is a channel number 510 called Security Fraud Information, it's provisioned but you can't view it if you type the number in on the EPG. Does anyone know what this is?

You will only see that if your box and cable is not from Virgin Media.

Ben B · 13-07-2009, 16:12

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

You will only see that if your box and cable is not from Virgin Media.

Ah I see, is that so that people who haven't are told they are being bad? lol

Stephen · 13-07-2009, 16:19

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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

3. You mean like Luxe HD or CH4 HD

(no i am not sayign tha tthe ones in quesiton they are jsut examples)
4. Unless sky negetoite a price for living hd before it launches it will be a virign exculsive and that will be a good thing for virign to use.

I was replying to Media Boy's post with regards to the channels announced today only being on XL.

Living TV will not be a VM exlusive as far as I know.

sniper007 · 13-07-2009, 16:27

What a joke the four announced channels are

Why are people defending VM's HD offering by suggesting that atleast they have brought some channels and that they are popular to a lot of people!? Err no. They really aren't.
The priority channels are clearly things like:

Terrestrial 1 - 5 and associated channels
Eurosport 1
Eurosport 2
Discovery HD channels

Even some music/film/sky 1 - 3 channels/bravo etc would have been better than the tripe they are getting first. I agree it is embarrasing and should have waited until they had atleast ONE decent channel to headline them with.

I'm off to get excited about watching the food channel in HD. Yay.

musicbravo · 13-07-2009, 16:31

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Originally Posted by sniper007

What a joke the four announced channels are

Why are people defending VM's HD offering by suggesting that atleast they have brought some channels and that they are popular to a lot of people!? Err no. They really aren't.
The priority channels are clearly things like:

Terrestrial 1 - 5 and associated channels
Eurosport 1
Eurosport 2
Discovery HD channels

Even some music/film/sky 1 - 3 channels/bravo etc would have been better than the tripe they are getting first. I agree it is embarrasing and should have waited until they had atleast ONE decent channel to headline them with.

I'm off to get excited about watching the food channel in HD. Yay.

This is your opinion, I and a lot of other people are happy about this anouncement, owing to the fact this shows VM are no longer dragging the saga out and meaningful HD is on its way (BTW I still only have an old CRT TV so HD wont affect me yet, but at least I am getting more of a reason to by a new tv)