General : Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2

[Bananaman_007]

Yes the have shown a fair bit of sport on Quest. They showed some pre season games of football, seem to remember some snooker and Tennis and rallycross. Tends to be weekend afternoons when they show sport on Quest.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Bananaman_007

Yes the have shown a fair bit of sport on Quest. They showed some pre season games of football, seem to remember some snooker and Tennis and rallycross. Tends to be weekend afternoons when they show sport on Quest.

Interesting, thanks.

Isn't Quest usually ex pay TV Discovery material?

According to this tweet, Made in Liverpool will launch on sky on 9th January:

https://twitter.com/MadeLiverpoolTV/...47175725654017

What's the state of play with regards to VM?

[Horizon]

Didn't know sport was on Quest either. Snooker on tomorrow afternoon. Perhaps the aim is to gradually turn the channel into a more mainstream general entertainment channel??

[ozsat]

It isn't anything new - during 2015 they have Superbikes and Rallying. In 2014 they have a live football tournament with Newcastle and West Ham involved.

Originally Posted by Horizon

Didn't know sport was on Quest either. Snooker on tomorrow afternoon. Perhaps the aim is to gradually turn the channel into a more mainstream general entertainment channel??

[Bananaman_007]

When Discovery won the rights to the Olympics there was a commitment to showing 500 hours on Freeview. Everybody assumed this would be achieved using the Quest and Quest +1 slots. However Discovery got a sizable offer from the BBC which they took instead. I think Discovery see Quest as a sort of ITV4 and will only further look to boost Quest with live sport due to its presence on Freeview.

[RichardCoulter]

4Seven HD is coming to VM, no word on Channel 4 +1 HD yet.

These channels were initially Freeview exclusives in order to help fill the two temporary HD muxes and to drive take up of Freeview HD boxes, so this must have now come to an end.

[Aguero9320]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

4Seven HD is coming to VM, no word on Channel 4 +1 HD yet.

These channels were initially Freeview exclusives in order to help fill the two temporary HD muxes and to drive take up of Freeview HD boxes, so this must have now come to an end.

Please could you define your source. This is something I'd like to see!

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Aguero9320

Please could you define your source. This is something I'd like to see!

It's been added off the EPG.

[Itshim]

[QUOTE=RichardCoulter;35869986]Info from another thread:

Eurosport announced today that it is going to show Pro12 rugby.

For those on the M/Player package MB says that some games will be on Eurosport Extra (AKA Quest).

Just in case rugby fans dont know this is extended highlights of Division 2 French games

You can also watch schools rugby on s4c Rygbi Pawb Wednesday @10pm
Commentary is english ( S4c is set to english if available)

[Frazz]

The Pro12 isn't division 2 French games.

It's teams from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy

[QUOTE=Itshim;35870240]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Info from another thread:

Eurosport announced today that it is going to show Pro12 rugby.

For those on the M/Player package MB says that some games will be on Eurosport Extra (AKA Quest).

Just in case rugby fans dont know this is extended highlights of Division 2 French games

You can also watch schools rugby on s4c Rygbi Pawb Wednesday @10pm
Commentary is english ( S4c is set to english if available)

[RichardCoulter]

[QUOTE=Itshim;35870240]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Info from another thread:

Eurosport announced today that it is going to show Pro12 rugby.

For those on the M/Player package MB says that some games will be on Eurosport Extra (AKA Quest).

Just in case rugby fans dont know this is extended highlights of Division 2 French games

You can also watch schools rugby on s4c Rygbi Pawb Wednesday @10pm
Commentary is english ( S4c is set to english if available)

Cheers Itshim.

If you still spend a lot of time abroad, you obviously won't be able to get Freeview, so 4Seven HD will be useful if it's a channel you use.

[Media Boy UK]

Media Boy Sources has confirm that 4Seven HD is now in full testing on Virgin Media UK.

[RichardCoulter]

Motors TV is to close it's SD channel on VM channel 545 (and all other platforms) from March 2017.

Thereafter, it will only be available via VOD in HD.

Is this the start of the shift to On Demand viewing that some have predicted?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report...ors-tv-channel

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy Sources has confirm that 4Seven HD is now in full testing on Virgin Media UK.

It's not encrypted either from what I have heard, presumably encryption will be added shortly.

I've not actually had time to analyse the last scans I received in much detail but I did notice that they show that Kix has been added to the SDT, no video, audio streams etc available at present.

---------- Post added at 22:17 ---------- Previous post was at 22:13 ----------

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Motors TV is to close it's SD channel on VM channel 545 (and all other platforms) from March 2017.

Thereafter, it will only be available via VOD in HD.

Is this the start of the shift to On Demand viewing that some have predicted?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report...ors-tv-channel

It will be nice to see how this develops, the report is a bit vague. Maybe the new HD channel will be coming soon to VM. I guess March 2017 is "soon" as far as this thread is concerned.

[theone2k10]

Source suggests that E4Hd will become fta in 2017