Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

[mersey70]

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Originally Posted by ahardie[/B

Well like you I'm not bothered about getting Sky Atlantic for myself but can see advantages to having a tivo box so I guess we are both exeptions to your rule. . Or at least will be when the tivo boxes are sold at a price that is to your liking.

I would not be interested in Tivo unless it gives me access to new content, price isn't the main reason I am not too keen. Maybe things will change in the future so we will see.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Last two nights mate on Silent Witness HD tried other HD and that was the same , the funny thing is it let me watch Silent Witness in SD no problem. It was from about 7pm - 10 pm we tried.

There are stacks and stacks of posts on DS about this issue although I have never experienced it personally.

Something to do with the servers being overloaded so some people say.

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Last two nights mate on Silent Witness HD tried other HD and that was the same , the funny thing is it let me watch Silent Witness in SD no problem. It was from about 7pm - 10 pm we tried.

I'll have a look in to it tomorrow when in the office. With 9132 if you keep trying then you should eventually get it, but I know it can be frustrating when you want to watch something.

[muppetman11]

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Originally Posted by mersey70

I genuinely couldn't disagree with you more, a channel that shows, amongst other things, HBO shows is more niche than a set top box? 10 million Sky homes will have access to SA at launch, how many Tivo boxes are VM planning to rent out! You do know that there are less than 3m in circulation in the US, I don't know how many homes are in the US but over 300m people live there!

Let's agree to disagree as we are poles apart me thinks.



I would not be interested in Tivo unless it gives me access to new content, price isn't the main reason I am not too keen.

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There are stacks and stacks of posts on DS about this issue although I have never experienced it personally.

Something to do with the servers being overloaded so some people say.

Trust me the last two nights its been bad , as an experiment I tried other HD shows on catchup and they were all the same. Its a bit annoying when they advertise it has watch anytime you wish.

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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

I'll have a look in to it tomorrow when in the office. With 9132 if you keep trying then you should eventually get it, but I know it can be frustrating when you want to watch something.

Thanks appreciate that

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by mersey70

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I would not be interested in Tivo unless it gives me access to new content, price isn't the main reason I am not too keen.

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There are stacks and stacks of posts on DS about this issue although I have never experienced it personally.

Something to do with the servers being overloaded so some people say.

It's contention if you get 9132. Server upgrades are being done. VOD is getting more popular all the time.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

It's contention if you get 9132. Server upgrades are being done. VOD is getting more popular all the time.

They need to be done it may get worse once we get Sky On Demand content and possibly ESPN

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

It's contention if you get 9132. Server upgrades are being done. VOD is getting more popular all the time.

I have never had the problem myself but it's good to hear that it's being addressed for those affected.

Originally Posted by mersey70

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I would not be interested in Tivo unless it gives me access to new content, price isn't the main reason I am not too keen. Maybe things will change in the future so we will see.

You really would have no interest in tivo? At any price point? Here is a review of it on CNET. I can see why some might not want to pay approacing £200 for it but that has got to be worth something to get a vastly improved box. For me it is the complete package that will make it worthwhile, a much bigger hard drive, a better faster box and the tivo features. If it was just one of those things I would wait for it to reduce in price but all of those things together make it worthwhile for me. I like the idea as well of being able to watch youtube content on it as there is loads of interesting stuff on there. Assuming it gives full access.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by mersey70

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I would not be interested in Tivo unless it gives me access to new content, price isn't the main reason I am not too keen. Maybe things will change in the future so we will see.

As i posted over on the TIVO thread could the box be able to give you full access to the web-site based players ( E.G BBC-PLAYER etc ) and not just the basic version that we seem to be getting now.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Chris

Exactly. I would be curious to know how many non-HD TV sets were sold, compared to the number of HD TV sets sold, during 2009 and 2010. The statistic is a little meaningless otherwise.

The more meanigful statistic is the basically static number of UK homes with a pay TV subscription of any kind - about 15 million, on a generous rounding up of BT plus VM plus Sky (incidentally, by last March only 2.5 million of those had an HD sub). There are about 26 million households in the UK, which is a pretty vast number of people, and, coupled with the suggestion that there are upwards of 24 million HDTVs now sold in the UK, suggests that:

1. Almost everyone now has an HDTV;
2. Perhaps one-in-10 HDTVs are connected to a subscription-based HD broadcast receiver.

There has always been a healthy scepticism over the worth of pay-TV in this country. Most (if not all) of those who own an HDTV and do not subscribe to a pay service, are either using Freesat (which has sold well over a million units, about a million of which are HD), are content to wait for Freeview HD to launch in their area, or simply don't care one way or the other.

I think part of the problem here is that our government rushed the companies involved to introduce digital TV before HD standards were agreed.

This, I think has resulted in TV companies being a little reluctant to invest in HD equipment, having (in a lot of cases) invested in digital-ready SD equipment in the last few years.

The Americans, on the other hand, waited a little while, then went for HD. They also have the advantage that a lot of production companies are also involved in film making, so would have invested in HD equipment anyway (it can be used for film as well).

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

As i posted over on the TIVO thread could the box be able to give you full access to the web-site based players ( E.G BBC-PLAYER etc ) and not just the basic version that we seem to be getting now.

Don't know but I can get that content now through the i-player as my PC is connected to my TV and works a treat, I would hope for something new and exclusive to sway me to Tivo really.

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Originally Posted by Stuart

I think part of the problem here is that our government rushed the companies involved to introduce digital TV before HD standards were agreed.

This, I think has resulted in TV companies being a little reluctant to invest in HD equipment, having (in a lot of cases) invested in digital-ready SD equipment in the last few years.

The Americans, on the other hand, waited a little while, then went for HD. They also have the advantage that a lot of production companies are also involved in film making, so would have invested in HD equipment anyway (it can be used for film as well).

I thought digital TV has been around in the US years before we got it?

[ken1234]

just hope Sky Atlantic hd come to virgin soon befor the year out

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by ken1234

just hope Sky Atlantic hd come to virgin soon befor the year out

I hope they cut VAT to 5% soon too!

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by mersey70

Don't know but I can get that content now through the i-player as my PC is connected to my TV and works a treat, I would hope for something new and exclusive to sway me to Tivo really.

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I thought digital TV has been around in the US years before we got it?

Yes but would it be better to have one box to do it all.

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

Yes but would it be better to have one box to do it all.

Not everyone wants to connect there computer to there tv. I haven't bothered trying that for years and I'm a bit of a geek. Probably 99% of the population wouldn't bother.

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

Yes but would it be better to have one box to do it all.

For a couple of hundred quid and a possible ongoing sub, not for me personally, no.

But if things change in the future content wise (and if i'm still a VM subscriber) I might change my mind. I honestly don't find it hard to find content with the V+ but that's just me.