Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

I remember the Harry Enfield series of adverts but I'm strangely having difficulty remembering Sir Richard. Maybe vaguely.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'finally got his hands on Mercury' as the consumer division of Cable & Wireless was sold on by NTL to NPower and is still in operation. The VM telephony service may run on legacy Cable & Wireless exchanges and infrastructure backbone but I don't think that is really the Mercury side of the business that we knew..

The business part of Mercury was sold onto Npower, but the residential telephone part of Mercury is part of Virgin Media, that never went to Npower. Although as you point out, backbone telephone services (ie 999) are provided by Cable & Wireless.

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by Horizon

The business part of Mercury was sold onto Npower, but the residential telephone part of Mercury is part of Virgin Media, that never went to Npower. Although as you point out, backbone telephone services (ie 999) are provided by Cable & Wireless.

I'm pretty sure that our Mercury 2300 service eventually became an NPower service with the little magic routing box (which I have in front of me as I type) but maybe not. Perhaps when the Mercury service ended we signed up with NPower for a while on our BT line.

I remember it was not a happy time with NPower but I can't remember why (my other half might but she's away). I think it was problems with billing and repeatedly getting the Direct Debit details wrong so that the payments never went through.

I know we had to have the magic box replaced once or twice too and I believe that this was a common occurrence. Also, I heard stories of people receiving boxes programmed with the incorrect routing prefix code or account number. All a bit vague now.

Those were frontier days pioneering the deregulation of telecomms with all manner of gadgets, gizmos, prefix codes and calling cards. Back to the future!

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Originally Posted by Nook29

Well, I wasn't just talking about people my age either, but people older and even your age still play games. And games for younger ones are advertised all year round too.

I mean games like KerPlunk, Operation and Buckaroo* not some plug-in for a Nintendo DS Lite! Those oldies only rear their defective plastic heads in the run up to Christmas.

*Interestingly now all made by MB Games - that's Milton Bradley, not Media Boy!

[Nook29]

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

I mean games like KerPlunk, Operation and Buckaroo* not some plug-in for a Nintendo DS Lite! Those oldies only rear their defective plastic heads in the run up to Christmas.

Ah, when people say 'games', I assume they mean video games. They're usually called 'board games' these days. Can't remember the last time I played one, it was probably Risk or Monopoly, two of the best.

[devilincarnate]

Hey i have just seen this over on ds :
Virgin Media to rollout new IPTV platform

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...-platform.html

[Media Boy UK]

Pick my new logo:

Vote now at: http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com/

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Who said anything about History or Eurosport HD? The only one that has been mentioned is Living HD

Europsort HD was testing....why would they test it and then stop Ben???

[Andrewcrawford23]

Originally Posted by Mobes

Europsort HD was testing....why would they test it and then stop Ben???

to test the network, but most fo the times when the test it because there close to agreement

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Pick my new logo:

Vote now at: http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com/

The 9-11 logo didn't last out the day.

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There was a heated discussion here a while back about the relationship between Sky and Pace. This article Pace aims to become world leader may be of interest. It also relates to the VM IPTV announcement.

[Horizon]

The "Zone" channels are to be rebranded by CBS in a joint venture between CBS and Chello Media:

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/i...005560.article

So, goodbye Zone Horror and hello CBS Horror??

[Media Boy UK]

Setanta Sports UK fall out: England qualifier could be shown pay-per-view on newspaper websites.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009...r-websites-pay

[Media Boy UK]

ZEE Network UK to rebrand ZEE Muzic as Zing on Friday 2nd October.

ZEE Network UK has confirmed to BizAsia.co.uk that Zing will fully replace the ZEE Muzic brand on Friday 2nd October.

Virgin viewers can view Zee Music on Virgin TV Channel 811 (Not in Ex-Telewest areas.)

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsar...uzic_trans.php

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

ZEE Network UK to rebrand ZEE Muzic as Zing on Friday 2nd October.

ZEE Network UK has confirmed to BizAsia.co.uk that Zing will fully replace the ZEE Muzic brand on Friday 2nd October.

Virgin viewers can view Zee Music on Virgin TV Channel 811 (Not in Ex-Telewest areas.)

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsar...uzic_trans.php

Wow Zingle has his own TV channel!

[Media Boy UK]

Eurosport to show Twenty20 CL games,

British Eurosport has agreed a broadcast deal with ESPN Star Sports to show action from the inaugural Airtel Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas...-cl-games.html

[Media Boy UK]

Teletext PLC to axe Teletext - new information.

On ITV1 Text page 139 it says that Teletext will now close in December 2009.

No date on when Teletext is going to close in December is given.

New logo news.

My new logo got 86% of vote from 105 who voted.

So thanks to everyone who took part.

[Sonna]

ESPN pull out of talks with Blue Square Prem

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...remier-setanta