General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.

[Catesby]

Originally Posted by young_timbo

in SD.

in my case, SD Sky Sports and no multiroom facility makes BT no option for me & the household I live in.

Yeah, no HD.

Also, no red button facilities, which means no options on Football First. This was one of the main reasons I switched from BT to Virgin a year ago.

Originally Posted by thegrid

No worries, i'm not certain but i'm sure this is the case.

It isn't.

Fox Sports has exclusivity on the Premier League, DirecTV (maybe someone else by now) has exclusivity on Sunday NFL games, etc.

[johnasimmons]

Freeview are broadcasting BT Sport 1 & 2 unencrypted from 6pm on channels 58 & 59 - not sure how long until they enctypt them again though

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

It isn't.

Fox Sports has exclusivity on the Premier League, DirecTV (maybe someone else by now) has exclusivity on Sunday NFL games, etc.

Ok, thanks, I wasn't sure

[Dave42]

BT Sport launch leaves Virgin Media customers in the dark


Thursday, August 1st 2013 by Editorial


BT Sport launches tonight, but Virgin Media households won't be tuning in.

Viewers will finally get their first glimpse of BT Sport on Thursday evening (1 August 2013) following months of buildup - but Virgin Media customers are no closer to finding out when they'll be able to access the channels, if at all.

The 'will they, won't they' saga between BT and Virgin has been dragging on for weeks - if not months - now, punctuated by periodic statements from one of the two companies that suggest some progress is being made towards finalising a carriage agreement.

But with BT Sport launching at 18:00 BST tonight, little appears to have changed. Virgin Media says it is always striving to provide customers with "the best possible value and breadth of high-quality content", and insists that discussions with BT are ongoing over "how we could make the forthcoming BT Sport package available".

For its part, BT stresses that it's open to doing a deal with Virgin Media, but that no wholesale agreement has been finalised so far.

All of which means that while BT TV and Sky Sports households are tuning in for the first time this evening, Virgin subscribers will be left wondering what they're missing out on.

To make matters even more frustrating for the cable company's customers, even Freeview homes will be able to watch BT Sport tonight - the launch is being broadcast at channel 57 on the free-to-air platform.

Virgin customers are understandably pretty peeved about the situation. Not only are they unable to access BT Sport, but they've also recently had to put up with the loss of ESPN, which was previously available free of charge to Virgin Media XL TV subscribers.

Of course, all of this will be forgotten about and forgiven if the two parties are able to get their heads together and iron out a deal before BT Sport really kicks into gear later this month, with the start of the new Barclays Premier League season. But if they can't manage this, the Virgin Media customer base could be hit by an exodus of unhappy sports fans.

http://www.cable.co.uk/blogs/2013/08...s-in-the-dark/

[thegrid]

Originally Posted by Jameseh

It isn't.

Fox Sports has exclusivity on the Premier League, DirecTV (maybe someone else by now) has exclusivity on Sunday NFL games, etc.

Oh I see, I stand corrected. Sorry.

[Dave42]

there no chance in hell bt will get more that 2 sky sports channels either

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Catesby

BT can still offer Sky Sports via their BT Vision + box, which is the one automatically given to new customers who take up a Sky Sports sub. Ironic that BT were one of the primary partners in Youview and now have to leave them on the shelf but as far as I'm aware the BTV box does pretty much the same thing as Youview anyway.

The Youview box offered them far more options , for a start it carries Sky's Now TV service with many more services to be added this year , I've also seen many complain the BT Vision + box can be slow in operation so its not an ideal predicament for BT.

[Harryn9000]

channel 57 is unencrypted now showing adverts for bt sport now.

i'll be alright then as got freeview hooked up to my tv in my room as back up

[Islandman]

Originally Posted by clinteastman

You have to remember that I didn't have a option to NOT have these channels included in the bundle if i wanted XL. I'm not going to be upset about losing something I didn't want and had to pay for in the first place. I understand that everyone has a different opinion on having/not having sports but this is mine.

You had no option but to have them, but VM keep telling us they were 'free', so don't understand what was the problem.

[clinteastman]

Originally Posted by Islandman

You had no option but to have them, but VM keep telling us they were 'free', so don't understand what was the problem.

I pay VM and they provide channels in return. That's not what I call free, added at no extra charge maybe but free? No.

[young_timbo]

Originally Posted by Islandman

You had no option but to have them, but VM keep telling us they were 'free', so don't understand what was the problem.

He bizarrely wants a non-sport replacement for a sports channel that was free and that he admits he never once watched. He's been banging on about it all week and he's not alone.

[Richc1977]

Originally Posted by Harryn9000

channel 57 is unencrypted now showing adverts for bt sport now.

i'll be alright then as got freeview hooked up to my tv in my room as back up

Alright until midnight that is!

[colin25]

Originally Posted by Richc1977

Alright until midnight that is!

Yes, I spotted that flaw too, but a classic cunning plan.

[Harryn9000]

Originally Posted by Richc1977

Alright until midnight that is!

i can watch the launch at least hopefully virgin get it by aug 17th

[Islandman]

Originally Posted by clinteastman

I pay VM and they provide channels in return. That's not what I call free, added at no extra charge maybe but free? No.

Think VM would give you an argument on that.