Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III. - Page 279

muppetman11 · 05-11-2011, 18:39

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Originally Posted by Hugh

He may be suggesting it - that doesn't make it true......

Can't see it Hugh can you ? Why would they drop it if there selling like hot cakes , it's like the speculation for ages of Sky dropping the HD charge when they were signing up record numbers.

05-11-2011, 18:40

They won't do it for a long time.

HD Boy · 05-11-2011, 18:41

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

it's like the speculation for ages of Sky dropping the HD charge when they were signing up record numbers.

Very true indeed.

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

They won't do it for a long time.

4 or 5 years ?

Media Boy UK · 05-11-2011, 18:44

I think Channel 5 deal with Virgin is up in 2012.

I think that is why we are not getting Channel 5 +1 until sometime in 2012.

The last one was signed in July 2010.

Felim_Doyle · 05-11-2011, 18:51

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Originally Posted by HD Boy

The only choices are a Cisco non pvr V HD box , 500GB Tivo and 1TB Tivo.
http://shop.virginmedia.com/digital-...top-boxes.html

Oops! I missed that bit.

Yes but that's for new customers or existing customers who are upgrading. Surely they'll swap my VBox for a V+Box HD especially as I suspect my VBox is
showing signs of failure.

I have to get an engineer out soon anyway to resolve a low signal problem affecting both the TV and broadband services. I'll be asking about swapping the box when I book the appointment but I wanted to know what the story was in advance so I can ask with confidence.

muppetman11 · 05-11-2011, 18:53

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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

Oops! I missed that bit.

Yes but that's for new customers or existing customers who are upgrading. Surely they'll swap my VBox for a V+Box HD especially as I suspect my VBox is
showing signs of failure.

I have to get an engineer out soon anyway to resolve a low signal problem affecting both the TV and broadband services. I'll be asking about swapping the box when I book the appointment but I wanted to know what the story was in advance so I can ask with confidence.

They won't swap a non PVR for a PVR as a service call.

05-11-2011, 19:02

You might get a VHD that doesn't have HD activated, nought else.

spiderplant · 05-11-2011, 19:17

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

You might get a VHD that doesn't have HD activated, nought else.

All VHDs now have HD activated. However, you aren't guaranteed to get a VHD as a replacement for a faulty V-box.

Chad · 06-11-2011, 01:33

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

All VHDs now have HD activated. However, you aren't guaranteed to get a VHD as a replacement for a faulty V-box.

My brother had Virgin out yesterday as the box in his bedroom wasn't working. It's the standard V-box. They managed to replace it like for like.

Don't get your hopes up!

06-11-2011, 12:50

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

All VHDs now have HD activated. However, you aren't guaranteed to get a VHD as a replacement for a faulty V-box.

Interesting new customers can only now get VHD boxes, I wonder when these boxes will be standard as fault replacements as well?

Digital Fanatic · 06-11-2011, 12:57

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Originally Posted by mlayzell

Interesting new customers can only now get VHD boxes, I wonder when these boxes will be standard as fault replacements as well?

Once the stock of V-Box's runs out.

spiderplant · 06-11-2011, 14:43

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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Once the stock of V-Box's runs out.

They still get refurbished, and there are plenty coming back from customers who are upgrading, so they will be available for as long as VM choose to keep them available. Same goes for the V+.

Alan Fry · 07-11-2011, 09:55

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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

Er, can someone else field that one please, I'm busy scraping myself off the floor!

Should we then let overrated presenters like Jonathan Ross decide how much of that licence fee he is paid?

no, the bbc trust,

this is the only bbc can surrvive with fading into obserity

HD Boy · 07-11-2011, 17:40

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Originally Posted by Chad

Premier Sports coming soon?

Someone on the Premier sports Facebook page has posted a copy of the following reply they received from Virgin in regards to Premier Sports launching.

"Many thanks for your e-mail.

I am responsible for the content proposition for sports and Premium channel offerings at Virgin Media. I appreciate hearing your views on Premier Sports and your interest in having this channel available on Virgin Media. I agree with you in that Premier Sports provides some great coverage of live sporting events and it is evolving into an impressive channel, I am pleased to say that we are in fairly advanced negotiations with Premier Sports and we really hope to launch this channel in the coming months, Iâ€™m afraid I donâ€™t have a set date at the moment but if you keep an eye on our website we will keep it updated with launch news.

We do constantly review and evolve the channels we make available and try very hard to give everyone something they really want so it's really useful to hear comments from customers like you. This really helps us develop our future thinking and product roadmap.

Kind regards Emma

Emma Jones - General Manager
Future Entertainment"

I'm very dubious as to how accurate this e-mail is. How likely is it for a Virgin employee to make the following statement? "We are in fairly advanced negotiations with Premier Sports and we really hope to launch this channel in the coming months."

Not likely

devilincarnate · 07-11-2011, 18:44

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Originally Posted by HD Boy

Not likely

I wish that you would make your mind up

As some emails you seem to read too much in to them and now you are trying to downplay this one.

I posted a while ago that they were in talks with Premier sports and you quoted it a few times? Now that they are in Advanced talks you seem to be dismissing it