Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.

[Felim_Doyle]

All of that having been said, I doubt that the quality of, for example, The Professionals or The Saint would be improved by upscaling to HD. They are pretty poor quality in SD as it is.

Overall, if I was looking for additional HD channels on VM, I would be inclined to forgo ITV 2/3/4 for now in favour of channels showing actual HD programming or films.

Regardless of one's viewing preference surely there is more to be gained by getting HD versions of some of the documentary channels than channels showing older, poor video and sound quality SD shows.

[DaMac]

The Saint was shot i think in panavision and i seem to remember when ITV was trialing HD broadcasts a few years ago it was programmes like the saint and space 1999 that they used and they looked pretty good.

[alwaysabear]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Anything shot in 35mm is higher than HD resolution so once scanned in to a computer a 4K master is usually made.

This means that a 1080p copy can easily be made.

Thanks that's a useful piece of info.

[zantarous]

Not easily as you still need to do a lot of work, like cleaning up the old film and usually on very old stuff the SFX would need a lot of work to clean up or redo, so if the show required little or no FX then yes there a good chance that a HD transfer will be done.

[Media Boy UK]

Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: Virgin are in talks with BSkyB for the Sky Sports F1 HD Channel.

My insider has confirmed to me today that Virgin Media are in talks with BSkyB for both Sky Sports F1 and Sky Sports F1 HD to launch on Virgin TV from March 2012.

©copyright 2011 Media Boy 2006 - 2011. An ''Keep it real and free'' Production.

I was told last week that Virgin Media will be having ''Freeviews'' over the Christmas Holidays on Virgin TV starting December 1st.

99% of me thinks Magic TV will be one of them.

Hope to have an update on what channels that Virgin TV will give freeviews to next month by Wednesday Night.

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by DaMac

The Saint was shot i think in panavision and i seem to remember when ITV was trialing HD broadcasts a few years ago it was programmes like the saint and space 1999 that they used and they looked pretty good.

D'oh!

Of course, if you go back far enough, all of those ITC / ATV shows were 'filmed' at Elstree Studios rather than being videotaped and so, ironically, were High Definition whereas later videotaped shows were not.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: Virgin are in talks with BSkyB for the Sky Sports F1 HD Channel.

My insider has confirmed to me today that Virgin Media are in talks with BSkyB for both Sky Sports F1 and Sky Sports F1 HD to launch on Virgin TV from March 2012.

©copyright 2011 Media Boy 2006 - 2011. An ''Keep it real and free'' Production.

I was told last week that Virgin Media will be having ''Freeviews'' over the Christmas Holidays on Virgin TV starting December 1st.

99% of me thinks Magic TV will be one of them.

Hope to have an update on what channels that Virgin TV will give freeviews to next month by Wednesday Night.

The question is MB what package will Sky Sports HD F1 be on and one suspects they will be on the top tier HD package.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by denphone

The question is MB what package will Sky Sports HD F1 be on and one suspects they will be on the top tier HD package.

I think Sky want Sky Sports F1 HD to be free to them with Sky Sports HD in.

[gadge]

Any news on the itv hd channels or is that a mo no for this year now.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: Virgin are in talks with BSkyB for the Sky Sports F1 HD Channel.

My insider has confirmed to me today that Virgin Media are in talks with BSkyB for both Sky Sports F1 and Sky Sports F1 HD to launch on Virgin TV from March 2012.
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Someone posted a link to the VM website where VM said they were in talks a few days ago.

[virginruinedntl]

i'm sure sky sports f1 hd will be a seperate channel or the sky sports hd package and that package would get a price increase.

there is no way it will be in xl and almost certainly won't get it in the sky sports package for the same price as sky will charge virgin a lot of money for it.

[andy_m]

I can't help thinking that Sky are unusually bending over backwards to give this channel to as many of their subscribers as possible with no subscription increase. All Sky Sports customers AND all hd customers must surely be a large majority of their subscriber base. An extra channel for then for nothing? I am clinging to the hope that they are contractually obliged to have this channel available to as many people as possible. To my mind, xl is as close to hd pack as Virgin gets. I live in hope!

Originally Posted by andy_m

To my mind, xl is as close to hd pack as Virgin gets. I live in hope!

Or the Sky Premium HD £7 add-on?

[andy_m]

Originally Posted by Jameseh

Or the Sky Premium HD £7 add-on?

I can't continue to live in vain and unlikely hope if you post sensible comments like this. I'm off to bury my head in the sand...

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Someone posted a link to the VM website where VM said they were in talks a few days ago.

I was thinking just the same

---------- Post added at 17:00 ---------- Previous post was at 16:57 ----------

Originally Posted by virginruinedntl

i'm sure sky sports f1 hd will be a seperate channel or the sky sports hd package and that package would get a price increase.

there is no way it will be in xl and almost certainly won't get it in the sky sports package for the same price as sky will charge virgin a lot of money for it.

My thoughts exactly , sadly I also cant see it being included in XL however I hope im proven wrong.