General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3

[Doug P]

Originally Posted by Horizon

[/COLOR]Of course having a choice to watch something is far better than not having a choice if the channels are not available. But this is a long running thing with VM and its predecessors...

VM don't seem to understand that having a logical order for channels, aides useabilty and makes the service easier to use. If they did, they might actually get a lot more tv customers, rather than it being flat growth for years and allowing a new competitor like BT to park their tanks on VM's (tv) lawn.

Really do not agree that channel order has any relevance to customer numbers.
BT have come into the market primarily to use sport to gain broadband customers and their chief target remains BSkyB. If not they would never have agreed to let their sport onto the XL pack....

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Originally Posted by telegramsam

Right so now we have Sky Sports 3 & 4 in HD the moan now seems to be the channel numbers not being logical? Guys... DOES IT REALLY MATTER ONE IOTA?
Personally I wont be getting them in HD so long as the 7 quid charge remains but that`s just me.

To me Sam no it does not matter one iota.... :-)

[smallclone]

Confused. I cancelled the sport last month as it's a quiet summer.

What are my options? What is this £150 thing?

[Doug P]

If you are on or order the Big Kahuna package you can prepay £150 for ten months of Sky Sports in SD rather than it costing £27.25 per month......

[smallclone]

Ah right I see. Thanks. Can you do a similar thing if you want HD sports?

[blue666666]

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i watch a lot of news too

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great news for people with a iphone ipad ect

http://my.virginmedia.com/customer-n.../sky-apps.html

Watch Sky Movies and Sky Sports on the go – available mid-August
For your viewing pleasure, this summer you'll be able to access Sky Movies and Sky Sports through their fantastic new apps. From mid-August just download the free Sky Movies app and Sky Sports apps for iPad, for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store. Just in time for the Barclays Premier League.
This means that instead of watching Sky Movies and Sky Sports through TV Anywhere, you’ll now be able to enjoy them on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch anywhere is the UK with a WiFi, 3G, 4G connection.
Don’t worry though – you’ll still be able to watch all your other channels on the go with TV Anywhere.

Then you can enjoy over 800 blockbusters, live movies, live sports, news clips, match highlights and in app cinema finder and loads more great features!

[Doug P]

Originally Posted by smallclone

Ah right I see. Thanks. Can you do a similar thing if you want HD sports?

Yes you buy the SD season ticket save the money and then pay the £7 per month HD fee....

[blue666666]

Android well come later in the year.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by blue666666

Android well come later in the year.

Typical but not surprising.

[Doug P]

Android always last....

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Doug P

Android always last....

And the thing is more people are using Android operating system phones then Apples operated phones.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by denphone

And the thing is more people are using Android operating system phones then Apples operated phones.

maybe the iphone are easier to do apps for don't know

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by Doug P

Really do not agree that channel order has any relevance to customer numbers.
BT have come into the market primarily to use sport to gain broadband customers and their chief target remains BSkyB. If not they would never have agreed to let their sport onto the XL pack....

I know, I know... it's premium sports and films that drive subscription numbers, not the order of channels. But I expect that is what may lie behind this numbering decision, though.

VM may think that having the "in the clear" Sky Sports News channel in such a prominent position on the EPG may drive new Sky Sports subscriptions. What other reasons can they have for putting a minority channel right in front of the premium channels?

[denphone]

A lot of customers watch Sky Sports News and Sky advertise their sports channels all the time on there so by putting it at 501 they believe it will attract people to subscribe to the Sky Sports premium channels one suspects.

[toady]

Originally Posted by blue666666

This means that instead of watching Sky Movies and Sky Sports through TV Anywhere, you’ll now be able to enjoy them on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch anywhere is the UK with a WiFi, 3G, 4G connection.

So we can watch premium channels on 3G and 4G, but not regular channels like ITV, Sky 1 and Channel 4

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Originally Posted by denphone

And the thing is more people are using Android operating system phones then Apples operated phones.

There is far less variety in hardware specs for Apple devices so it makes it easier to develop for

[blue666666]

Yes, it does toady