General : Coming soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 6.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Chad

This list of channels thing keeps on popping up in this thread.

If you are not able divulge details of channels on the list, what can you or anyone else on here tell us about the list itself?

Who produced the list and how high up the Virgin Media food chain are they?

Who has seen the original list and how high up the Virgin Media foot chain are they?

Is there any proof at all that this list exists or are we going from info from a friend of a friend of a friend?

How old is the list?

Are the channels on the list 100% set in stone to launch? (i.e. Is it a list of channel Virgin want to launch, or are going to launch?)

What is it that makes people so sure on here that the channels in the list will actually launch?

The list was given to me about FIVE weeks ago from one of my Ex-Rumour posters.

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

The list was given to me about FIVE weeks ago from one of my Ex-Rumour posters.

I think the key here off MB is "ex" rumour poster.

To be fair i'd rather have

CNN USA
FOX NEWS
Any german/french/holland national channels (which would need to do a BBC 1 HD job and go "black" whenever a premium show comes on air- which is fine)

I'd take those over sky atlantic and the HD variations any day

[Chad]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Didn't you mean if Sky Atlantic does not launch prior to Christmas?

Exactly

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Chad

Exactly

It nice to see that you have been busy looking into your revered crystal ball lately my dear chap.

[ozsat]

It is NOT actually on Freeview - although a (very) few Freeview boxes connected to the Internet can stream it.

It left Sky a long time ago - it looked like Soccer Saturday - but the presentation was very poor.

Originally Posted by ash88uk

I'd quite like Virgin Media to get Sports Tonight Live! (http://www.sportstonightlive.com/) it's on Freeview HD but on Sky if I recall. It could compete with Sky's Gillette Soccer Saturday on Saturday 3PM football kick offs. And since it wouldn't require a sub, it could be very popular.

[theone2k10]

Another source has told me today no more channels except for bbchd channels are coming this year.
So i have two sources both telling me different things so i'm going to go out on a limb here and say "if the sky channels launch they launch , if not then they don't" the problem lately seems to be too many sources. I shall be getting rid of one or two of them.

[spankysmagicpian]

Originally Posted by undertakereddie

Also Say Goodbye To Sky Movies 007 Because ITV Have Brought Back The Rights For All of The James Bond Films Including Skyfall Which Will Air on ITV Next Year in 2014.

Great - more films I might watch ruined by ad breaks every 15 minutes

[denphone]

Originally Posted by spankysmagicpian

Great - more films I might watch ruined by ad breaks every 15 minutes

Record then and fast forward through the ad breaks has always been my motto.

[Frazz]

I would like to see virgin stop actively hunting out sports channels as there a many of us, probably the majority who would rather have had the money they spent on BT sport used to get the missing sky channels or some other batch of channels.

Was onto retentions this morning as my £5 loyalty discount had expired and my latest bill had gone up to £84 they weren't able to do anything apart from reinstate the £5 loyalty. e mailed the CEO with a complaint, result £10 discount for 2 tivo, 1 v+, 60 mb broadband, xl TV and phone, feel that is a good result

[huxleypiguk]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Any german/french/holland national channels (which would need to do a BBC 1 HD job and go "black" whenever a premium show comes on air- which is fine)

Picked up TF1, Canal Plus and Canal Sport on Freeview in Reading recently. Lasted about 30 minutes and they were gone. Anyway try an app called FilmOn TV on Android. I watch a lot of France 2, 3 and 5 on it

[spankysmagicpian]

Originally Posted by denphone

Record then and fast forward through the ad breaks has always been my motto.

and take the chance of prematurely wearing out my remaining VHS tapes Never!

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Originally Posted by theone2k10

if the sky channels launch they launch , if not then they don't

Who can argue with that? You don't need to be Mystic Meg there.

ps - and again, if they do, I will be the first to apologise to theone, MB, OldBoy and Den.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by spankysmagicpian

and take the chance of prematurely wearing out my remaining VHS tapes Never!

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Who can argue with that? You don't need to be Mystic Meg there.

ps - and again, if they do, I will be the first to apologise to theone, MB, OldBoy and Den.

Have you not got a PVR spanky?.

[jobbie8]

Originally Posted by ocav

Well we won't be getting MTV XMAS cause its replacing MTV Classic

Bond rights have been back with ITV since SM 007 closed in September, the Daniel Craig films have been on ITV 2.

The link says MTV Xmas will be on Virgin channel 321, probably just a mistake if Digital Spy have taken the channel number from MTV Classic's website or good news if the info is from a MTV press release?

[spankysmagicpian]

Originally Posted by denphone

Have you not got a PVR spanky?.

Yes - I went all retro for a minute

[Mad Max]

"if the sky channels launch they launch , if not then they don't"

Lmfao, post of the day.......