General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.

[toady]

Originally Posted by harry_hitch

So it looks like VM are only missing three/four shows? Wow!!! Surely you watch more on the all-singing, all-dancing Sky Atlantic than 3/4 shows (excluding repeats)? This is why I am glad VM do not (allegedly) wish to pay over the top for this rubbish (IMO). Although, people should be given the option to pay a subscription fee for it.

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Don't think I'd watch anything other than The Following & Blue Bloods, can't beat the police procedurals.

[ocav]

Originally Posted by harry_hitch

PB, It will be interesting to know when/if S.A is coming to Now T.V. but, for me, more interestingly will be the price. I think it will be expensive, possibly £3-£4 per episode (£60-£80ish per season). I simply do not see them giving it away cheaply or reasonably. If it's reasonable for Now T.V., why not for anyone else?

I doubt that, considering.BlinkBox rent them at £1.99 per episode.

Plus Now TV is a subscription service, not a rental service, so you'll probably pay £5-£10 a month to watch Atlantic, Sky1, Sky Living, and Sky Arts, which is bad considering for an extra fiver you can get a Sky Go Pass and watch UKTV channels, National Geographic, History, the Channel 4 channels and some kids channels with On Demand

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Aguero9320

Hi, anything interesting?
I was speaking to a Virgin technician yesterday in my local chippy. He said we are due to launch relatively basic (in other words, dross we will never watch), but he also said we are due to launch the remainder of the basic Sky SD and HD channels, and we are due to launch Food Network and Travel Channel soon, too!! HIP HIP HOORAY!!!

Still to get any info of list of channels set to launch in April from insiders - so cant confirm if true or not.

I hope they split the guide and streaming channels into two apps like Sky, this week with the app being broken has made it difficult to see what's on, especially as TVGuide.co.uk's apps are even worse.

Sure they still have that one that looks like its been done by a 4 year old on his computer time but it isn't much use on an iPad.

[colin25]

Originally Posted by harry_hitch

So it looks like VM are only missing three/four shows? Wow!!! Surely you watch more on the all-singing, all-dancing Sky Atlantic than 3/4 shows (excluding repeats)? This is why I am glad VM do not (allegedly) wish to pay over the top for this rubbish (IMO). Although, people should be given the option to pay a subscription fee for it.

PB, It will be interesting to know when/if S.A is coming to Now T.V. but, for me, more interestingly will be the price. I think it will be expensive, possibly £3-£4 per episode (£60-£80ish per season). I simply do not see them giving it away cheaply or reasonably. If it's reasonable for Now T.V., why not for anyone else?

My point was that I watch other channels, but atlantic has the ones I want the most.

But immaterial..Virgin fan boys will only ever want Virgin..sky fans want sky.

I want the provider who gives me want I want, at the price I want..Sky at the moment ticks that box (as i have had virgin broadband, and it isn't worth the money). But up to each to choose

[bayonet]

Did I miss a meeting when did FOX and FOX HD launch?

[Lew]

They didn't. It's just the FX and FX HD channels with new names.

[bayonet]

Ah they must have upped the budget to add the O :-)

[coulsontom]

Not sure I get the negativity towards Sky.
Customer Service on Virgin Media (or any service these days) isn't exactly brilliant.

For me, it's a pragmatic who provides the services for the best price? question

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by coulsontom

Not sure I get the negativity towards Sky.

It's this: they won't let us have Sky Atlantic. They do this in a sneaky way by pretending they want to give access but pricing it so high that no other provider has got it.

They refuse to let sports fans has SS3 & 4, and F1 in HD.

[denphone]

Yes Sky would have many more friends if they behaved better but sadly their nefarious and insidious ethics which good old Rupert has endowed on them still drags round their neck like a ball and chain but hope springs eternal and lets hope they can change their behaviour sometime in the future but don't bet on it l am afraid.

[coulsontom]

Originally Posted by passingbat

It's this: they won't let us have Sky Atlantic. They do this in a sneaky way by pretending they want to give access but pricing it so high that no other provider has got it.

They refuse to let sports fans has SS3 & 4, and F1 in HD.

If they got those, it'd be more expensive.

At the moment, we have: VIP package at £113 100mb bb XL TV Phone, Sports&Movies + ESPN, multiroom and TiVo.

With Sky, we can get Sky World, BB, Phone for £108.

Plus with Sky you get all sports in HD, F1 plus atlantic. But not ESPN but that's going anyway and BT won't put it on virgin for free.

If the sky channels get added to virgin, I don't see how they cant make it more expensive than sky.

The only benefit to Virgin over sky is the 3 tuners, the fact that the multiroom box is also a v+hd box (recordable, 3 tuners but not really used), and that it doesn't go off in heavy rain.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by coulsontom

If they got those, it'd be more expensive.

At the moment, we have: VIP package at £113 100mb bb XL TV Phone, Sports&Movies + ESPN, multiroom and TiVo.

With Sky, we can get Sky World, BB, Phone for £108.

Plus with Sky you get all sports in HD, F1 plus atlantic. But not ESPN but that's going anyway and BT won't put it on virgin for free.

If the sky channels get added to virgin, I don't see how they cant make it more expensive than sky.

The only benefit to Virgin over sky is the 3 tuners, the fact that the multiroom box is also a v+hd box (recordable, 3 tuners but not really used), and that it doesn't go off in heavy rain.

Which is better between Sky and VM purely depends on an individual's requirements. So there is no best.

I was just answering your question on the negativity people feel towards Sky.

And there is one other that I didn't list. Because Sky have so much money, they can buy whatever TV show they want. So on several occasions, they have come along and 'pinched' successful US dramas that terrestrial channels have taken a chance on for the first couple of seasons and deprived a big chunk of the British TV audience of seeing the following seasons. That is abuse of monetary power in my view.

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Originally Posted by harry_hitch

PB, It will be interesting to know when/if S.A is coming to Now T.V. but, for me, more interestingly will be the price. I think it will be expensive, possibly £3-£4 per episode (£60-£80ish per season). I simply do not see them giving it away cheaply or reasonably. If it's reasonable for Now T.V., why not for anyone else?

It's a guess, but I think it could be too expensive. The main thing we don't know, is how they will package it.

Will they offer a full entertainment package including SA, which would make it unattractive for VM users as we already have most of the channels.

Will SA as a whole channel be a separate option, and what is a fair price for that?

Or will it be just individual show seasons or individual episodes that are available.

Only time will tell...

[coulsontom]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Which is better between Sky and VM purely depends on an individual's requirements. So there is no best.

I was just answering your question on the negativity people feel towards Sky.

And there is one other that I didn't list. Because Sky have so much money, they can buy whatever TV show they want. So on several occasions, they have come along and 'pinched' successful US dramas that terrestrial channels have taken a chance on for the first couple of seasons and deprived a big chunk of the British TV audience of seeing the following seasons. That is abuse of monetary power in my view.

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It's a guess, but I think it could be too expensive. The main thing we don't know, is how they will package it.

Will they offer a full entertainment package including SA, which would make it unattractive for VM users as we already have most of the channels.

Will SA as a whole channel be a separate option, and what is a fair price for that?

Or will it be just individual show seasons or individual episodes that are available.

Only time will tell...

That is annoying. I don't watch much American TV myself, but they took Mad Men which we watch.

I'm counting down the days until Homeland is nicked onto Atlantic.

Fortunately we have the basic sky subscription at holiday home so can series link anything on atlantic and watch it when we go.