Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
06-06-2010, 15:40
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
The only HD channel that is affected by this sale is Living HD
All the other channels are independent of either Sky or VM when it comes to the carriage agreement so Sky cannot force Virgin to change where they are placed.
Whatever you think of Sky I'm not sure why they would do this. The value of the channels is in the brand and the viewers. If Sky wanted to programs to put on Sky 1 they could have just bid for them in the first place.
If Sky 'asset strip' they channels then they are making their own purchase worthless
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I wouldn't be so sure. It's not as if Sky haven't purchased the competition just to asset strip and close it down before..
Remember BSB?
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06-06-2010, 16:03
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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I have just tried your suggestion Ben and it did indeed accept my registration. But why does it reject a valid ntlworld email address, but accepts TEST?
Also if it has registered me with an email address of test@ntlword.com, how will it be able to email me with updates for future TV services to my real email address?
Or am I missing something here 
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Do you have any non-alphanumeric characters in your email address? like - _ or . ?
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06-06-2010, 17:01
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Do you have any non-alphanumeric characters in your email address? like - _ or . ?
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You maybe onto something here, since yes I have a . (dot) in between my first and second initials, do you think that this is causing a field validation problem?
--John
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06-06-2010, 17:52
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by TheDon
Do you have any non-alphanumeric characters in your email address? like - _ or . ?
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I also have a "." too, 3rd character in...
Maybe a good point if those of you who cannot register have any of the above "characters" in your email address.
As a matter of interest has anyone been able to register with any of the above characters...... if so, then that theory is out the window!
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06-06-2010, 18:32
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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06-06-2010, 18:38
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by Sirius
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no it not just ckecked
http://www.tvcatchup.com/guide.html
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looks like sky will be charging for it
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From June 1st Virgin +1 (a timeshift service) will not be available in Freeview homes. Virgin 1+1 will still be available for Virgin Media and Sky customers and Virgin 1 remains at channel 20 in Freeview homes. Unfortunately this does mean that Freeview viewers in Wales will not be able to receive Virgin 1 at all in peak and may need to subscribe to a pay service should they wish to continue to enjoy Virgin 1 in peak.
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06-06-2010, 18:42
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Remember BSB?
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I know you have to take anything on it with a pinch of salt but I don't think that it was as simple as buying BSB to asset strip anymore so than ntl bought Telewest for the same reason
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...casting#Merger
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lokslike sky will be charging for it
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It was removed from Freeview so that 'Yesterday' could expand it's broadcasting hours
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06-06-2010, 18:42
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by vanman
no it not just ckecked
http://www.tvcatchup.com/guide.html
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looks like sky will be charging for it |
Yes it is i am watching it now. ???
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Damm your right its not there its virgin1 i am watching 
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06-06-2010, 19:03
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Seems like there is some problematic field validation going on then
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I have a . in my email address too, so this seems to be the problem with non recognition. Time to nudge the programmer.
Regards
John.
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06-06-2010, 19:05
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
Nope not that. I've put test.1@ ntlworld.com and it went through ok
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06-06-2010, 20:05
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Nope not that. I've put test.1@ ntlworld.com and it went through ok
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try te.st@ntlworld.com please Ben, as two of us have the . as the third character of our email address.
Regards
John.
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06-06-2010, 20:06
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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06-06-2010, 20:16
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
Okies can see they don't work. Hopefully will be fixed soon
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06-06-2010, 20:18
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by pythagoras
try te.st@ntlworld.com please Ben, as two of us have the . as the third character of our email address.
Regards
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Waits with baited breath to see if BenMcr77 has any luck.
Just a note, I remember that when I started with my current email address I was automatically given a selection of options based on my name. I chose one of those, most incidentally had a "." as the 3rd character.... sorry just thought I'd share that whilst waiting for Ben lol! 
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Looks like Ben replied whislt I was typing. Thanks BenMcr77. Like you say, hopefully it will be fixed soon.
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