General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Not coming soon - But a friend who works for Liberty & worked out whom I am - If you know me the clues are there. Has told me & said that`s its no secret So post if I wish. The following. That the long term targets are.
1) uniform branding across all companies
2) uniform channels across all companies
3) One box only & Tivo is NOT the model favored.


All is subject to contracts of cause but these are the company aims.
Would look t be in place within the next Five years

BIB is the Horizon box i'm suspecting as i've heard talk about Horizon and it's already up and running in Ireland and across LGs network in Europe.

[ocav]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Lots of angst tonight I see... We need some cheering up with some blockbuster news

BLOCKBUSTER NEWS

Movie Rental chain Blockbuster still remains open despite tough online competition, over priced rentals and lack of stores throughout the country.

Local woman who cannot be named as she currently is owing her late fee said "what's the point?"


That the sort of news you wanted Vince?

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by ocav

BLOCKBUSTER NEWS

Movie Rental chain Blockbuster still remains open despite tough online competition, over priced rentals and lack of stores throughout the country.

Local woman who cannot be named as she currently is owing her late fee said "what's the point?"


That the sort of news you wanted Vince?

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

BIB is the Horizon box i'm suspecting as i've heard talk about Horizon and it's already up and running in Ireland and across LGs network in Europe.

I seriously hope that isn't the case. Tivo has been a massive success for VM so they should leave well alone.

We would lose one of the best features, Whishlists, if they swapped from Tivo.

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by ocav

BLOCKBUSTER NEWS

Movie Rental chain Blockbuster still remains open despite tough online competition, over priced rentals and lack of stores throughout the country.

Local woman who cannot be named as she currently is owing her late fee said "what's the point?"


That the sort of news you wanted Vince?

It's 11pm I'm sat in alone on a Saturday I'll take it to be honest

[harry_hitch]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

It's 11pm I'm sat in alone on a Saturday I'll take it to be honest

You are not alone Vince, you have all of us......

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by ocav

BLOCKBUSTER NEWS

Movie Rental chain Blockbuster still remains open despite tough online competition, over priced rentals and lack of stores throughout the country.

Local woman who cannot be named as she currently is owing her late fee said "what's the point?"


That the sort of news you wanted Vince?

You forgot to add if you use their games and movie rental it's very rare you'll get a game even if your top 10 is only games , also not to mention they don't answer the phone.

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Not coming soon - But a friend who works for Liberty & worked out whom I am - If you know me the clues are there. Has told me & said that`s its no secret So post if I wish. The following. That the long term targets are.
1) uniform branding across all companies
2) uniform channels across all companies
3) One box only & Tivo is NOT the model favored.


All is subject to contracts of cause but these are the company aims.
Would look t be in place within the next Five years

That was my impression of what would happen when Liberty announced they were buying VM. Uniform branding and channels are relatively easy to do. Merged tech takes more effort.

But Liberty are also hoping, according to reports, to merge their Dutch and Belgium cablecos together, as a step towards merging all their European cable interests into one company. Although a sea of debt and tax issues appear to be the main reasons why this may not happen anytime soon.

[Bananaman_007]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

You forgot to add if you use their games and movie rental it's very rare you'll get a game even if your top 10 is only games , also not to mention they don't answer the phone.

I was so frustrated with that i ditched them and went to Boomerang who are quite frankly brilliant. I have had 6 of my 8 pre order rentals so far on day of release. I would like to add they don't bother to answer emails either. Waited 2 weeks for them to send me a rental, emailed to complain and they did not even reply.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Horizon

That was my impression of what would happen when Liberty announced they were buying VM. Uniform branding and channels are relatively easy to do. Merged tech takes more effort.

But Liberty are also hoping, according to reports, to merge their Dutch and Belgium cablecos together, as a step towards merging all their European cable interests into one company. Alhtough a sea of debt and tax issues appear to be the main reasons why this may not happen anytime soon.

Hopefully by the time they get all that sorted, with the increase of online content, I will have 'cut the cord'. If they dump Tivo, that would be even more of an incentive.

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Your choice! However, an apology would be polite if Sky Atlantic appeared this autumn, don't you think? I am assuming you have manners, of course, which I am sure you have in abudance

Really? Ok just testing, of course, reveal the date of Atlantic! no ******** around with autumn etc etc, you seem to be in the know, so how would it harm you?

We're waiting Mr Knowall...........

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Sorry Richard but to believe that "the great one " has been given secret information , but can not share with us sounds like a play ground story. If you choose to believe in such childish rubbish. Please feel free but respect others who treat it with a JCB shovel of salt Guys who E mailed your support to my comments - Please put your heads over the parapets

In answer to your request I thought such fairy tales had stopped. As they have not, I will post as & when I wish too. For trouble read "real world" not (put what you will here. )

The content of this thread is available for you to read, which I assume you did before posting.

You would, therefore, have been made aware of the content, so I do not accept your claim that you thought that the nature of this thread had changed.

One can only conclude that you chose to post your negative comments out of a desire to stir up trouble once again.

Originally Posted by kandinsky

Premier Sports

VMs announcment says its free for a month at the beginning of their blurb and then says free until end of year at the end.

Does anyone at Virgin proof read these things before posting?



Live rugby league, hockey, football and more!
We've got some fantastic news for all you sports fans. We've signed the brilliant new sports channel Premier Sports. And to mark the occasion, we're giving it to all our customers for one month, at no extra cost.

Premier Sports is the only place to view all 28 games of this autumn's Rugby League World Cup. So alongside England's games, you can watch Wales and Scotland taking on the likes of Australia and New Zealand too.

That's not all. Premier Sports is the home of North America's NHL ice hockey, NASCAR Trucks and South American football from Argentina and Brazil, so you can spot the Neymar and Lionel Messi of tomorrow!

Tune in to Premier Sports (CH 551) from Friday 25th October to catch all the action. And, remember, it's free for all our customers until the end of the year.

This is VM we are talking about, they are known for their poor communication skills on all levels. Let's h8pe that Liberty Global will resolve this long standing problem ;-)

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by Bananaman_007

I was so frustrated with that i ditched them and went to Boomerang who are quite frankly brilliant. I have had 6 of my 8 pre order rentals so far on day of release. I would like to add they don't bother to answer emails either. Waited 2 weeks for them to send me a rental, emailed to complain and they did not even reply.

A little birdy told me Boomerang are looking into the movie rental buisness too. I agree with you Boomerang are fantastic , atm i have a huge pile of psn+ games to grind through lol.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by passingbat

First of all, they are not fairy tales they are rumours; some have substance and some don't. Some are gleaned from things like VM accidentally putting up web pages before they should do (and rapidly removing them) and some from insiders (and I you don't believe in leaks, you really aren't living in today's world) and some are pure speculation.

But all the above is what this thread is about; and we love it. We don't take everything as gospel, and have fun with the information, real or unreal.


It seems to me that this thread just simply isn't for you.

Indeed, but itshim seems to get his pleasure from spoiling the enjoyment of others when the fancy takes him.

Originally Posted by johnasimmons

I get the feeling you are just here to stir people up, you are probably more suited for the Digital Spy forum

You could be right about Maverickjesus, but it may just be that he has poor communication skills and cannot express himself effectively, so comes accross as abrupt and rude??

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Originally Posted by Itshim

Not coming soon - But a friend who works for Liberty & worked out whom I am - If you know me the clues are there. Has told me & said that`s its no secret So post if I wish. The following. That the long term targets are.
1) uniform branding across all companies
2) uniform channels across all companies
3) One box only & Tivo is NOT the model favored.


All is subject to contracts of cause but these are the company aims.
Would look t be in place within the next Five years

That's more like it

Well, it doesn't surprise me that LG are going for uniform branding, but this is the first time I've heard it being mooted.

I am also not surprised that LG will be looking to an exit strategy for TiVo. Their own Horizon box is in use elsewhere and would save them having to pay licencing fees to TiVo.

I wonder if the Horizon software can be dropped onto the existing TiVo boxes??

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Originally Posted by passingbat

I seriously hope that isn't the case. Tivo has been a massive success for VM so they should leave well alone.

We would lose one of the best features, Whishlists, if they swapped from Tivo.

Perhaps the Horizon box could be incorporated to include Wishlists (and anything else worth having from TiVo)??

Horizon will save VM money and possibly customers too (maybe this change will put a stop to the multiroom per TiVo charge or the actual TiVo charge itself)??

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

------ Post added at 23:43 ---------- Previous post was at 23:39 --------

Perhaps the Horizon box could be incorporated to include Wishlists (and anything else worth having from TiVo)??

Much of the Tivo functionality, such as Whishlists is patented, so that is highly unlikely in my view. That is why Tivo have gained a lot of money through winning law suits recently, from other ST Boxes using Tivo functionality without agreement and paying Tivo for the use.