General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 1. - Page 32

harry_hitch · 16-01-2013, 21:37

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Originally Posted by Chad

Before joining SKY recently I didn't have SKY Movies. TiVo was a great tool for finding movies from various channels in HD. Channel 4 and Channel 5 over the weekend offer up some really good movies. Sy-fy HD also offered up the odd hidden gem. At one point I had around 90 HD movies stored on my TiVo box

Wowzers, I have never had that many movies recorded, good effort

. I agree about channel 4 and 5, I have found Channel 4 and Film 4 have some real classics from the 40's and 50's at lunch time too (although b/w films are not to everyones tastes.) Much like Sy-Fy, I find the horror channel has the odd horror gem, alas though they are not HD

Media Boy UK · 16-01-2013, 21:48

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Originally Posted by harry_hitch

Wowzers, I have never had that many movies recorded, good effort

. I agree about channel 4 and 5, I have found Channel 4 and Film 4 have some real classics from the 40's and 50's at lunch time too (although b/w films are not to everyones tastes.) Much like Sy-Fy, I find the horror channel has the odd horror gem, alas though they are not HD

I have found that BBC Two has starting broadcast movies from 1930's to late 1940's in the early morning - from about 6am.

denphone · 16-01-2013, 21:53

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

I have found that BBC Two has starting broadcast movies from 1930's to late 1940's in the early morning - from about 6am.

Indeed they do that at weekends MB.

16-01-2013, 22:04

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Originally Posted by passingbat

Who cares what they say? VM's total package is the best service for me by a long chalk. People should focus on total package requirements and equipment functionality rather than just isolate one aspect of a service to fight over. For someone else, Sky's overall package will be the best for them.

To be fair, nobody cares but them. If XP ends up as largely HD channels it just puts meat on the bones of their argument, I'd just prefer not to hear the mantra repeated too often.

But with XP losing a batch of its channels to M+, it does need beefing up a little with something new. There's still probably a significant number of XP users without HD.

Chad · 16-01-2013, 22:08

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

I have found that BBC Two has starting broadcast movies from 1930's to late 1940's in the early morning - from about 6am.

Do they ever show Laurel & Hardy or Marx Brothers films? Used to watch these with my Grandad back in the very early 80's. It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic. Can anyone else remember when they colourised old Laurel & Hardy movies about 25 years ago? It really put me off the films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0OnUqY9yE

Media Boy UK · 16-01-2013, 22:14

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Originally Posted by Chad

Do they ever show Laurel & Hardy or Marx Brothers films? Used to watch these with my Grandad back in the very early 80's. It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic. Can anyone else remember when they colourised old Laurel & Hardy movies about 25 years ago? It really put me off the films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0OnUqY9yE

No idea the one I saw BBC Two broadcasting was an Film from 1936.

Here is my best L&H film - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhB5ZqJJ7Vw

harry_hitch · 16-01-2013, 22:54

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

I have found that BBC Two has starting broadcast movies from 1930's to late 1940's in the early morning - from about 6am.

Cheers MB, I did notice that at Xmas time, but completely forgot all about it. Will keep me eyes open for them in the future

Media Boy UK · 16-01-2013, 22:59

I know when TCM HD (and the rest) will launch but after Africa Channel launch carry on I am holding that info back it will be by Next Wednesday anyway.

harry_hitch · 16-01-2013, 23:05

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Originally Posted by Chad

Do they ever show Laurel & Hardy or Marx Brothers films? Used to watch these with my Grandad back in the very early 80's. It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic. Can anyone else remember when they colourised old Laurel & Hardy movies about 25 years ago? It really put me off the films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0OnUqY9yE

I don't recall them ever showing Laurel and Hardy or Marx Brothers, but they probably do slip the odd one in now and agian.
They probably colourised them make it more "appealing" to "younger" viewers

. It fails horribly in my eyes. I could even make it through 10 mins of Alastair Sim's Scrooge movie when I saw that colourised.

I would guess the boxsets of all the Laurel and Hardy movies are dirt cheap to buy now though

HDFootyMan · 16-01-2013, 23:06

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Originally Posted by Qtx

Saying that video streaming is working ok for you at the moment proves nothing of value. It is known that VM has more than its fair share of streaming video issues, either by not having enough enough peering bandwidth or by local utilisation issues. Look at how long it took them to resolve the youtube streaming issues at the end of last year for example. The virgin fan clun cxan't deny that one

Again goes to show how bad virgins network is compared to sky.

So bad that Netflix have named VM as the UK's best ISP for streaming their content:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...d-at-streaming

Can't deny that.

muppetman11 · 16-01-2013, 23:13

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Originally Posted by HDFootyMan

So bad that Netflix have named VM as the UK's best ISP for streaming their content:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...d-at-streaming

Can't deny that.

I would expect that though wouldn't you , VM has more users on faster speeds than any other ISP , the rest are well behind when it comes to fibre connections.

nicko · 16-01-2013, 23:29

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Originally Posted by Chad

Do they ever show Laurel & Hardy or Marx Brothers films? Used to watch these with my Grandad back in the very early 80's. It's been a long time since I've sat down and watched a classic. Can anyone else remember when they colourised old Laurel & Hardy movies about 25 years ago? It really put me off the films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0OnUqY9yE

The film that I saw the other day had Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers as the stars in it.

Chad · 16-01-2013, 23:37

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

I know when TCM HD (and the rest) will launch but after Africa Channel launch carry on I am holding that info back it will be by Next Wednesday anyway.

The great news for everyone who follows this thread, and your blogs, is that it appears your insiders are back on top form.

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Originally Posted by nicko

The film that I saw the other day had Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers as the stars in it.

Was there singing and dancing by any chance?

Movies from the 30's and 40's loved a good song and dance routine.

16-01-2013, 23:42

I am pleased we are getting TCM HD there was some horrible aspect ratio's of the SD channel very bad stretched 4:3 shows

Chad · 16-01-2013, 23:48

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Originally Posted by mhatter67

I am pleased we are getting TCM HD there was some horrible aspect ratio's of the SD channel very bad stretched 4:3 shows

Yeah, that was horrible.

SKY have got loads of niche channels broadcasting in wacky aspect ratios. Trying to watch them on a big TV is pretty painful.