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

[andy_m]

And they cost 10 times the price of one with glasses.

[colin25]

Originally Posted by Bananaman_007

Glasses free 3DS tvs are on the market right now

Yes, but not same quality

I was reading that technology being developed will make all 3D tvs glasses free

[paultrademark]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Strange - most reasonable TVs upscale SD.

It's not quite as good as HD, but not crap (imho).

Watching the FA Cup game on ITV AD just now and the picture is poor IMO. It's not being shown in the STV region or would have it on STV HD

[colin25]

Originally Posted by paultrademark

Watching the FA Cup game on ITV AD just now and the picture is poor IMO. It's not being shown in the STV region or would have it on STV HD

I am watching in HD, through other channels, manually added

[OLD BOY]

Yes, but you're on Sky, Colin. You can't manually add channels on cable.

[colin25]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Yes, but you're on Sky, Colin. You can't manually add channels on cable.

Oh sorry, wasn't paying attention

Yes, i remember when I had virgin..it annoyed me that it kept forcing STV onto me...no one but STV think stv is good

[steveh]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Strange - most reasonable TVs upscale SD.

It's not quite as good as HD, but not crap (imho).

The problem is more the low bitrates than the actual resolution.

Doesn't help too with channels like Viva where they take old 4:3 NTSC programmes, convert them into PAL, blow up the picture to somewhere in the middle of 4:3 and 16:11 (losing the top and bottom) and then bung them out on a really low bitrate channel. Impossible to watch on a big screen telly with the bad colour, blurred picture and terrible pixellation.

[paultrademark]

Spot on, it's not every channel but some are definitely worse than others. ITV SD channels seem particularly bad, thankfully we now have the HD versions of 2/3/4.

[BexTech]

Originally Posted by johnasimmons

True, my TV (Sharp Aquos) does a great job of upscaling but I find Universal (& +1) very blocky and smeary in dark scenes

Yes, that will be the low bit-rate on the channels.

You'll notice more in dark scenes, scenes with a lot of one colour and fast moving scenes.

[johnasimmons]

Originally Posted by BexTech

Yes, that will be the low bit-rate on the channels.

You'll notice more in dark scenes, scenes with a lot of one colour and fast moving scenes.

Thats right; Universal and the +1 are the only channels I watch where it is noticable (it's also bad on the 5USA/5* channels as well but I don't watch anything on them presently)

[carmad]

Originally Posted by johnasimmons

Universal HD is 'the one' I am waiting for...

Ditto

[braysoj1]

Virgin Media takeover by Liberty Global approved in EU

The European Commission (EC) has confirmed that its antitrust authority found no competition concerns with the transaction.

The authority noted that the companies' cable networks operate in different countries, noting that the national licensing of TV content for different areas meant that the deal would not restrict competition.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/ne...mpaign=twitter

[Media Boy UK]

Where Can I find an up-to-date list of channels on Virgin TV - on the web?

I am working on my blog.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by braysoj1

Virgin Media takeover by Liberty Global approved in EU

The European Commission (EC) has confirmed that its antitrust authority found no competition concerns with the transaction.

The authority noted that the companies' cable networks operate in different countries, noting that the national licensing of TV content for different areas meant that the deal would not restrict competition.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/ne...mpaign=twitter

Well, that's nice of them. Maybe now they can turn their attention to Sky...

[Media Boy UK]

Rumours: New channels set to launch until August???

An Virgin Viewer has pass on the following to me from an Virgin Worker:

between now and August there will be a continuation of new channels arriving.