Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

[braysoj1]

renamed channel VIVA starts @ 4pm

[scorpionatthepc]

Originally Posted by braysoj1

new channel VIVA starts @ 4pm

Not really new just renamed TMF.

[Media Boy UK]

This weeks list of Football games live on Virgin TV - now online.

http://footballonvirgintv.blogspot.c...s-week_26.html

[faisalabadi]

any new channels

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by faisalabadi

any new channels

As far as I know no new channel is testing on Virgin Media.

[braysoj1]

Virgin plans Yorkshire smart card swap

Virgin Media has confirmed plans to start sending out new smart cards to its cable TV customers in parts of Yorkshire.

Letters have been sent out today by the firm to Virgin Media households in Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate and York informing them about planned upgrades to their service.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...swap.html.html

ps good news 4 me

[Nook29]

Good news, should arrive this week then.

[TMLeafs]

ESPN America could be going widescreen on the 28th more here with screens of testing http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1149054

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by braysoj1

any news on the fa cup rights

FA Cup update:
http://setantasportsuknews.blogspot....fa-cup-to.html

[Felim_Doyle]

Last week, Virgin launched a short instructional video about how to change smart cards, which led to rumours of a national card swap. However, the exchange is purely localised to parts of Yorkshire.

So are we to deduce from this that people in the Yorkshire franchise areas are the biggest threat in terms of dodgy boxes and theft of services?

I think they call that 'profiling' in the justice system.

[TheDon]

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

So are we to deduce from this that people in the Yorkshire franchise areas are the biggest threat in terms of dodgy boxes and theft of services?

I think they call that 'profiling' in the justice system.

It's not called profiling, it's called a trial area. It's not going to be limited to that area, it's going to be rolled out nationwide on an area by area basis.

[Media Boy UK]

Setanta Sports UK Fall out: BREAKING NEWS: ITV and FA.com to broadcast first two round of FA Cup.

http://setantasportsuknews.blogspot....cup-to-be.html

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by TheDon

It's not called profiling, it's called a trial area. It's not going to be limited to that area, it's going to be rolled out nationwide on an area by area basis.

Yes, agreed.

I did quote my post with 'sarcasm' marks .

My point was that the quote from the DS news item was misleading, suggesting that there was no nationwide rollout and that it was local to the Yorkshire area for no apparent specific reason ( other than Yorkshire people can't be trusted but surely that's the Welsh as in "welsh on a deal"? ).

Presumably the rollout will be on a head-end by head-end basis as each is upgraded to support NagraVision 3 (with NV1 backwards compatibility). One could further speculate that the rollout might be subdivided by franchise (ex-C&W, ex-NTL, ex-TW) and might also coincide with analogue switch-off at those head-ends but, then again, all of these things could be totally independent of each other.

I'm having trouble locating a historical schedule of the VM switch-off, listng areas already switched off and those yet to be done. Does anyone know where I can find one?

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

Yes, agreed.

I did quote my post with 'sarcasm' marks .

My point was that the quote from the DS news item was misleading, suggesting that there was no nationwide rollout and that it was local to the Yorkshire area for no apparent specific reason ( other than Yorkshire people can't be trusted but surely that's the Welsh as in "welsh on a deal"? ).

Presumably the rollout will be on a head-end by head-end basis as each is upgraded to support NagraVision 3 (with NV1 backwards compatibility). One could further speculate that the rollout might be subdivided by franchise (ex-C&W, ex-NTL, ex-TW) and might also coincide with analogue switch-off at those head-ends but, then again, all of these things could be totally independent of each other.

I'm having trouble locating a historical schedule of the VM switch-off, listng areas already switched off and those yet to be done. Does anyone know where I can find one?

Try this:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/10...-schedule.html

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Two channels missing on Virgin Media's ''Total Channels''.

http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com...in-medias.html

I'm down to 297 from 299 in an ex-C&W/ex-NTL area.