Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

[huxleypiguk]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Can someone please answer me this one question, when VM took over, and now everyone should have this network, why some areas don't have the same channels, it does not make sense, surely if VM take over the contract for the whole lot, you keep hearin Ex TW and Ex CW why can't they make it ALL VM if it is the same company..

It is a good question, but comes down to the legacy networks that they put together to make one. Even after this time there are subtle differences that are taking a lot of time effort and money to upgrade

[sherer]

plus surely TW and NTL also had seperate contracts for the channels, they have to wait for those to expire before they can be turned into a VM contract for the whole network.

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by sherer

plus surely TW and NTL also had seperate contracts for the channels, they have to wait for those to expire before they can be turned into a VM contract for the whole network.

Don't think that's even an issue after all of this time. The Answer to Arthur's question, as someone prevously stated, is basically down to legacy inherited hardware and infrastructure. The Next Gen. will level the playing field (so to speak) and, it seems, introduce new features and, eventually, IPTV.

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Oh, no! Now we'll have to refer to it as VM TV TNG! Damn trekkies!

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

Ah! So what other goodies can I expect with the Next Gen. rollout?

Check your radio channels

[Arthurgray50@blu]

Here's a spanner in the works, IF ex TW and CW boxes are the same, as mine hasn't changed since TW, then there should not be a problem, I am not tech minded, then surely, l cannot see any problem, I worked for TW for one day, and what l saw amazed me, here is how they changed your box from Anologue to Ditigal, and l did it, they just add a small metal tube about half and inch in length, which is the same size as a water pipe in your tap, and it was done, and it cost the customer £80.00 for which he got a reciept for, then when it went ditigal it didn't cost a penny, they didn't change the box or anything, Its the engineering side of VM which is taking its time, l will never understand VM, there are customers wanting the same channels as everyone else, but they have to wait, until an engineer pushes a button.

[Guy T]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Here's a spanner in the works, IF ex TW and CW boxes are the same, as mine hasn't changed since TW, then there should not be a problem, I am not tech minded, then surely, l cannot see any problem, I worked for TW for one day, and what l saw amazed me, here is how they changed your box from Anologue to Ditigal, and l did it, they just add a small metal tube about half and inch in length, which is the same size as a water pipe in your tap, and it was done, and it cost the customer £80.00 for which he got a reciept for, then when it went ditigal it didn't cost a penny, they didn't change the box or anything, Its the engineering side of VM which is taking its time, l will never understand VM, there are customers wanting the same channels as everyone else, but they have to wait, until an engineer pushes a button.

WTF - happy hour obviously starts earlier where you are!!!!!! what are you saying ??????????

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by Guy T

WTF - happy hour obviously starts earlier where you are!!!!!! what are you saying ??????????

Was thinking the same! hahahaha

[Andrewcrawford23]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Here's a spanner in the works, IF ex TW and CW boxes are the same, as mine hasn't changed since TW, then there should not be a problem, I am not tech minded, then surely, l cannot see any problem, I worked for TW for one day, and what l saw amazed me, here is how they changed your box from Anologue to Ditigal, and l did it, they just add a small metal tube about half and inch in length, which is the same size as a water pipe in your tap, and it was done, and it cost the customer £80.00 for which he got a reciept for, then when it went ditigal it didn't cost a penny, they didn't change the box or anything, Its the engineering side of VM which is taking its time, l will never understand VM, there are customers wanting the same channels as everyone else, but they have to wait, until an engineer pushes a button.

Arthur yoru comment sinteh past have been weird and mosyly anti virgin, but this is plain i dnt know what if it was that simple virgin would have done iy years ago, secondly there waiting to move it all to iptv

[Arthurgray50@blu]

What l am saying is that if Virgin take over a cable network, you don't expect several years later some areas of that network still under the same old system ie l was with TW, and yet other old networks are still waiting to change over to the VM way of things do you.

[LondonRoad]

I encrypted assuming that aliens is messages to sending am Arthur

[TheDon]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

What l am saying is that if Virgin take over a cable network, you don't expect several years later some areas of that network still under the same old system ie l was with TW, and yet other old networks are still waiting to change over to the VM way of things do you.

Are you aware how much it costs to upgrade a cable network?

They haven't had any need to get every network they took over running on the same equipment and giving the same services before, the differences in them were small enough that it wasn't a huge issue.

If they had of done they'd have had to spend money to get them in line, and would now be spending even more money to upgrade them to the next gen platform.

They looked at it from a business point of view, where supporting several different networks makes far more sense than unification when you know that you're going to be rolling out a next gen platform not that far in the future.

[multiskilled]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Here's a spanner in the works, IF ex TW and CW boxes are the same, as mine hasn't changed since TW, then there should not be a problem, I am not tech minded, then surely, l cannot see any problem, I worked for TW for one day, and what l saw amazed me, here is how they changed your box from Anologue to Ditigal, and l did it, they just add a small metal tube about half and inch in length, which is the same size as a water pipe in your tap, and it was done, and it cost the customer £80.00 for which he got a reciept for, then when it went ditigal it didn't cost a penny, they didn't change the box or anything, Its the engineering side of VM which is taking its time, l will never understand VM, there are customers wanting the same channels as everyone else, but they have to wait, until an engineer pushes a button.

Arthur when I went from analogue to digital they changed the stb, what they added to yours sounds like an attenuator all that does is reduce signal strength. It will not convert an analogue stb to digital.
If that was the case all we would need to watch freeview on our analogue tv's is one of these magical metal tubes.

Maybe that's why you only lasted the day, engineer you were with said you to gullible to work for Telewest.

[Nook29]

This weeks live sport on ESPN.

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Check your radio channels

What am I looking for that wasn't there before?

Of these three listed by Media Boy as missing from ex-C&W/ex-NTL areas ...

911. Radio: BBC Radio 4 LW
917. Radio: RTE Radio 1
920. Radio: WRN Europe

I have 'BBC Radio 4 LW' only.

[spiderplant]

Radio 4 LW is one of the new ones. You've also got BBC London 94.9 now. Virgin Media just keeps on giving...