General : Virgin TV (2025)

[1701-e]

Who or what is GreyHorse?

[TimeLord2018]

Sure isn't Greyhound?

I know Greyhound Racing is available on Sky Sports Racing the from red button on Sky.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by 1701-e

Who or what is GreyHorse?

Originally Posted by TimeLord2018

Sure isn't Greyhound?

I know Greyhound Racing is available on Sky Sports Racing the from red button on Sky.

No other information is known.

[Media Boy UK]

UPDATE:

Virgin Media UK are maybe set to launch ''Greyhound'' via the red button on Sky Sports Racing HD for their Premier Greyhound Racing.

Premier Greyhound Racing has been shown on the red Button since Sky Sports pick up the right last year.

Some Premier Greyhound Racing are shown on Sky Sports Racing HD when no horse Racing are on or about about to go off.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Media Boy UK

GreyHorse is set to launch soon on Virgin Media UK.

https://bsky.app/profile/ukctvc.bsky.../3lh2e6oauhc2d

First time i've been on Blue Sky, is this the replacement for Twitter after Musk bought it?

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by TimeLord2018

Sure isn't Greyhound?

I know Greyhound Racing is available on Sky Sports Racing the from red button on Sky.

The Service Name is GreyHorse. Surely Virgin TV don't make mistakes.

...speaking of Virgin Media "mistakes" they have ignored the last 2 rebrands of Sky Cinema Action, so it continues to be listed on the EPG with the name of a former rebrand.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

First time i've been on Blue Sky, is this the replacement for Twitter after Musk bought it?

Long story short it was set up by the original Twitter management to test decentralisation of the platform. Decentralisation doesn't suit Elon, it would restrict his ability to manipulate platform content. Since Elon's acquisition, Twitter has severed all links to Blue Sky. Blue Sky's user count has been rapidly increasing, attracting users dissatisfied with Elon's promotion of far right movement's such as Germany's AfD.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by epsilon

The Service Name is GreyHorse. Surely Virgin TV don't make mistakes.

...speaking of Virgin Media "mistakes" they have ignored the last 2 rebrands of Sky Cinema Action, so it continues to be listed on the EPG with the name of a former rebrand.

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Long story short it was set up by the original Twitter management to test decentralisation of the platform. Decentralisation doesn't suit Elon, it would restrict his ability to manipulate platform content. Since Elon's acquisition, Twitter has severed all links to Blue Sky. Blue Sky's user count has been rapidly increasing, attracting users dissatisfied with Elon's promotion of far right movement's such as Germany's AfD.

Sounds good to me, are people tending to close their Twitter accounts when they join Blue Sky?

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Sounds good to me, are people tending to close their Twitter accounts when they join Blue Sky?

im keeping both at the moment.

hoping more people come to bluesky. i'm not even going to mention politics but the bot situation on twitter is ridiculous. all the bluetick accounts using chatgpt to tweet generic replies via some sort of bot system. majority i find are Indian based accounts. They're so obvious to spot but people reply to them!

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

im keeping both at the moment.

hoping more people come to bluesky. i'm not even going to mention politics but the bot situation on twitter is ridiculous. all the bluetick accounts using chatgpt to tweet generic replies via some sort of bot system. majority i find are Indian based accounts. They're so obvious to spot but people reply to them!

I am keeping my X feed but using BlueSky for UK Base story's.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

First time i've been on Blue Sky, is this the replacement for Twitter after Musk bought it?

It was started by the bloke behind Twitter but is making the same mistakes and is still a corporate entity with big money backing pretending it’s not.

Today happens to be Global Switch Day actually.

Switching to publicly owned digital media is the way to protect against the corporate control of our information.

So —> Twitter/X to Mastodon, Instagram to Pixelfed, WhatsApp to Signal, Reddit to Lemmy, Facebook Messenger to Signal, Facebook to Friendica, YouTube to PeerTube, TikTok to Loops.

Bluesky is owned by VCs and crypto backers. It is NOT public social media.

.. or just dont use any of them.

Aside from Mastodon, I've never heard of any of those alternatives, so I doubt many people would move to them.
If they did somehow become popular, they'll probably get bought out by a "corporate entity with big money" anyway.


[ Not sure what any of this has to do with Virgin TV .. ]

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Sounds good to me, are people tending to close their Twitter accounts when they join Blue Sky?

Many have but it does mean losing contact with those who refuse to migrate, so the norm seems to be using both platforms.

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Originally Posted by cheekyangus

It was started by the bloke behind Twitter but is making the same mistakes and is still a corporate entity with big money backing pretending it’s not.

Today happens to be Global Switch Day actually.

Switching to publicly owned digital media is the way to protect against the corporate control of our information.

So —> Twitter/X to Mastodon, Instagram to Pixelfed, WhatsApp to Signal, Reddit to Lemmy, Facebook Messenger to Signal, Facebook to Friendica, YouTube to PeerTube, TikTok to Loops.

Bluesky is owned by VCs and crypto backers. It is NOT public social media.

Bluesky is run as a benefit corporation so favours making a positive impact on society c.f. Elon's negative impact and the increase of hate filled content on Twitter. It is also decentralised like Mastodon, although it is still in its infancy so doesn't have quite the same level of "federation". There is a small amount of blockchain funding but not enough to be a big influence. Blockchain funding seems to be increasing with small media organisations too but they don't seem to gain very much traction so probably not the best way of funding. Mastodon is fine, it doesn't get the level of engagement needed to be a success and the links between fediverse networks can be tenuous. Signal took a similar path to Bluesky, being set up by one of the founders of Whatsapp. I'm not sure how much I would trust Signal, probably more than Whatsapp under Meta's management and certainly more than I would trust Telegram. The others you mention haven't reached critical mass.

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Originally Posted by Paul

.. or just dont use any of them.

Aside from Mastodon, I've never heard of any of those alternatives, so I doubt many people would move to them.
If they did somehow become popular, they'll probably get bought out by a "corporate entity with big money" anyway.


[ Not sure what any of this has to do with Virgin TV .. ]

Well, yes, you do make a good point.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by epsilon

It is also decentralised like Mastodon, although it is still in its infancy so doesn't have quite the same level of "federation".

And it won’t. Many “instances” on the other Fediverse platforms have either refused to federate it or have set interactions to a minimal level to monitor that service’s actions based on their current way of running things, especially as Bluesky and Threads have said things that that imply they would collect & use the data of accounts not on their services, and take any interaction with their service’s users as authorisation to do so.

Bluesky and Threads look like they are doing the Decentralised equivalent of Green-washing.
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As for how this ties into TV Paul, it’s about information sources (particularly accurate, official and reliable ones) and where they can be found, so it ties into virtually every subject imaginable.

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

And it won’t. Many “instances” on the other Fediverse platforms have either refused to federate it or have set interactions to a minimal level to monitor that service’s actions based on their current way of running things, especially as Bluesky and Threads have said things that that imply they would collect & use the data of accounts not on their services, and take any interaction with their service’s users as authorisation to do so.

Bluesky and Threads look like they are doing the Decentralised equivalent of Green-washing.

We'll have to see, it hasn't even been open to the public for a full year yet. The problem with depending on poorly funded alternatives means there is no guarantee of continuity. Your posts could be here one day and gone the next as your choice of federated servers fails. As we have seen with botsin.space.

[epsilon]

Overnight changes:
Eurosport 3 HD to Eurosport 8 HD removed.
Encryption removed for Sky Sports Active SptsETV01 to SptsETV03 following the removal of PMTs and elementary streams (video & audio).
FAST services Eggheads & Hell's Kitchen relaunched on channels 233 & 253.
Baby TV, SONY SAB HD & red button services TNT Sport 6 to TNT Sport 10 have switched transport streams and are now available in HD.
Further details:
https://ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com