Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I. - Page 2

Henkesghost · 02-01-2011, 20:20

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

I have been told today by an Insider that the Sky Red button should launch on Virgin Media sometime before April 2011.

Previous insider had said January?

lawe · 02-01-2011, 20:40

Interesting, assume this would include Sky News red button?

Gavin-D · 02-01-2011, 21:13

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Originally Posted by lawe

Interesting, assume this would include Sky News red button?

I beleive it's only Sky Sports 1 and 2.

02-01-2011, 21:30

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Originally Posted by Henkesghost

Previous insider had said January?

Things are complicated, plus he obviously gets told bull at some point. Its still all rumours.

zantarous · 02-01-2011, 21:36

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Originally Posted by Henkesghost

Previous insider had said January?

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

Things are complicated, plus he obviously gets told bull at some point. Its still all rumours.

Or that January could have been the original date, on big projects things change daily and launch dates get pushed back all the time.

Henkesghost · 02-01-2011, 22:00

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Originally Posted by zantarous

Or that January could have been the original date, on big projects things change daily and launch dates get pushed back all the time.

windy · 02-01-2011, 22:41

Bring on the HD channels.

Happy new thread..

muppetman11 · 02-01-2011, 22:51

Sky Atlantic HD won't arrive anytime soon Sky will keep this and will advertise and sell it big time and I personally wouldnt expect Sky sports 3 and 4 HD anytime soon.

DJ-SWITCH · 02-01-2011, 22:56

Its going be a good year for HD channels i can feel it

howardmicks · 02-01-2011, 23:11

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Originally Posted by DJ-SWITCH

Its going be a good year for HD channels i can feel it

I hope so

borrissey · 03-01-2011, 00:50

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Originally Posted by DJ-SWITCH

Its going be a good year for HD channels i can feel it

I really hope your right, always good to get more HD channels, hope we get a slice of Sky Atlantic and the HD version would be great. Also hope we get Sky Sports HD 1 and HD2.

I wonder if Sky will launch Sky Movies Prem HD +1 or is that a waste of bandwidth?

Happy New year all.

Lew · 03-01-2011, 01:08

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Originally Posted by borrissey

Also hope we get Sky Sports HD 1 and HD2.

We already have those. Do you mean HD3 and HD4?

jamiec21 · 03-01-2011, 02:12

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

I have been told today by an Insider that the Sky Red button should launch on Virgin Media sometime before April 2011.

I'd like to believe the recent "coming soon" posts and winking emotions by Virgin staff members mean we'll be getting it sooner than that. I'll certainly be disappointed if we don't at least get an announcement by the end of the month.

I personally believe it's rather bad form to announce this stuff is coming in the form of an all singing, all dancing press release in June 2010 and for no further update to come since then. Either it's an error in the initial press release, or something has been renegotiated since them, but a bit more openness would be nice. IIRC, the only suggestion of Red Button content in 2011 came from one line in a Sky official website article.

andrewbrown · 03-01-2011, 02:20

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Originally Posted by jamiec21

I'd like to believe the recent "coming soon" posts and winking emotions by Virgin staff members mean we'll be getting it sooner than that. I'll certainly be disappointed if we don't at least get an announcement by the end of the month.

I personally believe it's rather bad form to announce this stuff is coming in the form of an all singing, all dancing press release in June 2010 and for no further update to come since then. Either it's an error in the initial press release, or something has been renegotiated since them, but a bit more openness would be nice. IIRC, the only suggestion of Red Button content in 2011 came from one line in a Sky official website article.

IIRC the OFCOM agreement meant that Sky had to offer it, and I believe that the delay is due to technical issues because of platform incompatabilities, rather than any negotiation issues.

03-01-2011, 05:43

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Originally Posted by andrewbrown

IIRC the OFCOM agreement meant that Sky had to offer it, and I believe that the delay is due to technical issues because of platform incompatabilities, rather than any negotiation issues.

That would sound about right to me.

Its funny though QVC,BBC,ITV all get their red button services working on VM i wonder just how incompatable the sky sports red button is with virgin medias platform if its taking all this time to impliment.? although i am hopeful it will arrive very soon please.