General : Virgin TV (2025)

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Sky Q is guaranteed to be functioning until 2029-30, when the transponder contracts run out

As has already been pointed out to you, Sky Q can function quite happily without the transponders.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Paul

As has already been pointed out to you, Sky Q can function quite happily without the transponders.

Not if Sky decommission the box you can't. Satellite TV will not be here for much longer, I'm afraid. Google it and you will see.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Not if Sky decommission the box you can't. Satellite TV will not be here for much longer, I'm afraid. Google it and you will see.

Another of your made up posts.
Show us evidence that Sky intend to 'decommission' Sky Q boxes.

Also, you really should try reading what people actually post.
Perhaps you just failed to comprehend, Sky Q can work just fine without satellite.

As to "much longer" even if satellite ended in 2029 (which is possible) that's still years away.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Paul

Another of your made up posts.
Show us evidence that Sky intend to 'decommission' Sky Q boxes.

Also, you really should try reading what people actually post.
Perhaps you just failed to comprehend, Sky Q can work just fine without satellite.

As to "much longer" even if satellite ended in 2029 (which is possible) that's still years away.

You are arguing about nothing. I know very well that 2029 is years away - four years, to be precise, which is not long, is it?

And I would point out that if Sky failed to renew their transponder contracts, which is highly likely, given the expense, there would be no satellite TV.

But the boxes will still work - big deal. But Sky will want their subscribers to move over to Sky Stream to keep the income coming in. That’s why the likelihood is that they will decommission the Sky Q boxes.

It’s amusing when someone says "to be precise", then gives a rough* figure…

* "four years", instead of (to be precise) 3 years, 10 months, and twelve days

[OLD BOY]

https://www.digital-tv.co.uk/guides/...0around%202030.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by 1701-e

I still don't see where you are getting the threat "withdrawal of sky sports" from.

Do you have a link?

It's what they did last time a STB was decommissioned in order to transfer people across in an orderly fashion.

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

https://www.digital-tv.co.uk/guides/...0around%202030.

That's just someone's opinion in an article about it. I read the other day an article where Sky themselves said that Sky Q would be around for the foreseeable future.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

https://www.digital-tv.co.uk/guides/...0around%202030.

Thats not an official sky site, so just speculation.

However, since you love vague quotes ... it states ....

Sky Q will remain in place and operational for the foreseeable future.

Lets not forget as well ;

While Sky will push new customers towards its newer streaming-based services, you can still get Sky Q if you choose.

or

For current Sky Q customers, you won’t have to worry about losing access to your service or being forced to upgrade when you’re happy with what you have.

So to use another vague phrase you'll love - its not going away anytime soon.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Paul

Thats not an official sky site, so just speculation.

However, since you love vague quotes ... it states ....


Lets not forget as well ;
or

So to use another vague phrase you'll love - its not going away anytime soon.

Yes, I know all that. But the ‘foreseeable’ future is 2029/30 according to all the reports I have seen. Yes, it is true that formal announcements from Sky about what happens after that date have not been made, but the writing is on the wall.

Hope springs eternal, I suppose, so you keeping on wishing and hoping and praying - but it would be nice if members of this forum would give realistic advice to those requesting it. The commitment given by Sky is time limited. Anything beyond that is wishful thinking.

[Media Boy UK]

Notts TV set to close down after more than a decade of broadcasting

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/...wn-9951337.amp

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Hope springs eternal, I suppose, so you keeping on wishing and hoping and praying.

You really do live in your own little world.
Do tell me, what exactly am I "wishing and hoping and praying" for ?

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

but it would be nice if members of this forum would give realistic advice to those requesting it.

LOL, ok, thats nice - so do tell us, when do you finally intend to start doing this ?

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Paul

You really do live in your own little world.
Do tell me, what exactly am I "wishing and hoping and praying" for ?

AT
At a guess, live TV channels forever?

Originally Posted by Paul

LOL, ok, thats nice - so do tell us, when do you finally intend to start doing this ?

I am giving practical and sensible advice that there is no guarantee that satellite TV via Sky Q will still be available after 2030 (possibly a little earlier).

I think you are providing false hope in suggesting that this is unlikely.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

At a guess, live TV channels forever?

A poor & inaccurate guess. Over 90% of what I watch I download.
The rest is football. Over 50% of that football is now streamed (On Sky Q !).

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I am giving practical and sensible advice that there is no guarantee that satellite TV via Sky Q will still be available after 2030 (possibly a little earlier).
I think you are providing false hope in suggesting that this is unlikely.

I have quite carefully stated (at least twice) that Sky Q will function without satellite.
Nowhere at any point have I stated what you keep trying to imply.
You are just making up what people say as you go along (and I'm pretty sure you also mean 'likely', not 'unlikely').

This also has nothing at all to do with Virgin TV, so time to move on, you're wasting my time, and everyone elses.

[Media Boy UK]

Virgin are set to launch FIVE FAST Channels soon (Channel will be on when launch).

*Sky Artist of the Year (Ch 239)
*Wonder (Ch 240)
*Sky Sports Stories (Ch 558)
*Sky Sports Classics (Ch 559)
*Sky Sports Vault (Ch 560)

[RichardCoulter]

Another channel on Virgin to close:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/334541...ing-notts/amp/