Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II

[cwj2008]

Originally Posted by mattpafc

I just hope it will be included with no price hike for VIP customers or I shall probably downgrade and do away with sports and movies altogether.

same here but i will downgrade my broadband and keep sports at least

[jimmytboi]

An extra charge!!!! Now this annoys me, what on earth happened to "HD, at no extra fee". If they try to charge me for these on top of already paying for sky sports and sky movies I may well just pack up the lot.

[spankysmagicpian]

Originally Posted by mattpafc

I just hope it will be included with no price hike for VIP customers or I shall probably downgrade and do away with sports and movies altogether.

I've already done that very recently. Maybe jumping the gun but ..... I doubt it.

Originally Posted by jimmytboi

An extra charge!!!! Now this annoys me, what on earth happened to "HD, at no extra fee". If they try to charge me for these on top of already paying for sky sports and sky movies I may well just pack up the lot.

Might be worth waiting just a couple more weeks just to see if there are extra charges for those on TV XL and VIP customers.

Myself i wll not be paying to duplicate channels such as sport which i already take i will make do with sd and V+ upscaling on sports as HD to me simply is not worth an extra charge.

[gadge]

Any news on sky 1 hd ect media boy?.
What does the pre order mean?for sports and movies hd?.

[Joedm45]

Originally Posted by jimmytboi

An extra charge!!!! Now this annoys me, what on earth happened to "HD, at no extra fee". If they try to charge me for these on top of already paying for sky sports and sky movies I may well just pack up the lot.

Yes its annoying but I think you can only complain if there is a price rise for any extra standard HD channels.

I didn't expect the premium HD channels to be included in the 'No Extra Fee' advertising campaign so this news if true comes as no surprise.

Edit: Richard1960 beat me to it

[muppetman11]

Can't see it being a tenner like Sky. If its more than a fiver I won't bother.

[Joedm45]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Can't see it being a tenner like Sky. If its more than a fiver I won't bother.

I agree, a fiver is probably the most I'll be willing to pay too.

I guess the problem for football fans is that we've had a month of HD coverage at the world cup and now we'll have to go back to SD unless we pay more.

[HDFootyMan]

Well, we know Sky are charging VM an 'incremental wholesale charge', I wonder if the charge increments depending on what pack you're on?

Just as an example (and I stress this is based on purely guesswork on my part):

Sky Premium HD charge (per month):

XL: £5
L: £7
M+ £10



You know what will probably happen next, don't you?

Sky will scrap their HD charge, raise the prices of their packs to compensate for the lost income and then scream from the rooftops: "HD is FREE on Sky, those guys at Virgin will charge you extra!"

[ken1234]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy EXCLUSIVE:

Five HD will be on Virgin Media by ''End of August''.

I have just found out that Virgin Media plan to launch Sky Sports and Movies HD on the 2nd August with possibly pre ordering from the 19th July.

There will be an extra charge for this service but still no prices as yet.

that is gr8 news any new about sky sport and move hd anynew about the interactive come to virgin too as you know on sky web site the interactive will not be here till 2011 but know news from virgin on this yet ?

Originally Posted by ken1234

that is gr8 news any new about sky sport and move hd anynew about the interactive come to virgin too as you know on sky web site the interactive will not be here till 2011 but know news from virgin on this yet ?

Yes see my posting 1125! i emailed vm yesterday and in a reply they stated Red Button interactive on sky sports will launch in 2011 although in their reply they stated it was not their fault. Make of that what you will.

So looks like interactive will be here sometime in 2011.

[ken1234]

thanks for the new

[Arthurgray50@blu]

Without the red button on Vm, there is no point in getting Sky Sports, as with Football First, you have to go via the red button. But there again VM never advise you of these things when you go in for it.

[trevrpb]

Obviously not official yet, but don't expect Media Boy info to be incorrect....but its not full info on the possible charging structure....if there is indeed one.

However as I believe I may have alluded to previously, I never expected something for nothing, after all, Virgin will have to pay for taking the HD elements of SSPts and SMvies, and it makes commercial sense to make to charge. I am only interested in SSp HD and will take it even if there is a charge. But I don't think there will be a charge under certain circumstances.

I really don't like specualting or second guessing what a company will do, but I largely think (probably talking tosh as usual....)

1) XL TV already taking SS - No Charge for SS HD
2) XL TV Current No Sub to SS - New SS Sub but no HD - a lower price than current * If taking a new SS + HD, perhaps the equiv price as above + £2 or £3 (but costed not less than scenario 1

Packages other than XL - perhaps slapping a £5 premium to those taking the HD element of SS/SM

[Nook29]

This weeks live sport on ESPN.