General Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014 - Page 83

Chad · 22-02-2014, 19:43

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It will be interesting to see if BT also put in a bid. That would put the cat among the pigeons!

It would give them a nice outlet to screen the Cahmpions League, and Europa League games they've committed to show free to air.

denphone · 22-02-2014, 19:47

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Originally Posted by Chad

It would give them a nice outlet to screen the Cahmpions League, and Europa League games they've committed to show free to air.

Believe you me Chad the amount of games they will show free to air will be minimal.

ocav · 22-02-2014, 20:43

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Originally Posted by denphone

Believe you me Chad the amount of games they will show free to air will be minimal.

As part of the contract they have to show a certain amount FTA.

Chad · 22-02-2014, 20:52

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Originally Posted by ocav

As part of the contract they have to show a certain amount FTA.

1 per week from both competitions as far as I'm aware.

DJ-SWITCH · 22-02-2014, 21:22

CITV has been added too virgin anytime, Can feel more channels being added too it

theone2k10 · 22-02-2014, 21:51

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Originally Posted by DJ-SWITCH

CITV has been added too virgin anytime, Can feel more channels being added too it

More should be added over the next month

i don't have any information on which channels though but BBC are being mentioned quite a lot.
Also expect to start seeing HD content soon too.

Anypermitedroute · 22-02-2014, 22:31

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Originally Posted by Chad

1 per week from both competitions as far as I'm aware.

Really as much as that? I think that is only current deal joint itv/sky I think when bt takes over they committed showing 1 game per team, not week.

The finals however I would assume are covered by law must be shown on FTA

DJ-SWITCH · 23-02-2014, 00:00

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Originally Posted by theone2k10

More should be added over the next month

i don't have any information on which channels though but BBC are being mentioned quite a lot.
Also expect to start seeing HD content soon too.

that's good if hd channels do get added as I got a hd laptop

denphone · 23-02-2014, 07:08

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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute

Really as much as that? I think that is only current deal joint itv/sky I think when bt takes over they committed showing 1 game per team, not week.

The finals however I would assume are covered by law must be shown on FTA

Indeed that's what l understand is they are showing only one game per team and if that's the case then l think many will be disappointed.

andy_m · 23-02-2014, 08:13

The only thing they've publicly committed to is to show each British team once per season. I doubt there will be anything like the amount of free to air football currently available.

RichardCoulter · 23-02-2014, 12:32

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Originally Posted by DJ-SWITCH

CITV has been added too virgin anytime, Can feel more channels being added too it

I would be happy to receive ONE channel via VM Anytime. After checking, my Samsung Galaxy tablet is not supported.

Do Sky support the Samsung tablets?

Do VM have any plans to extend the range of devices that Anytime is available on?

muppetman11 · 23-02-2014, 12:41

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I would be happy to receive ONE channel via VM Anytime. After checking, my Samsung Galaxy tablet is not supported.

Do Sky support the Samsung tablets?

Do VM have any plans to extend the range of devices that Anytime is available on?

Yes they do.

RichardCoulter · 23-02-2014, 13:24

Thanks MM.

After selling Smallworld to VM (which only took about four weeks to go through), David, the former owner, has said that he thinks he could have got more money from at least one other party. The reason he didn't was because he thought that VM would be best for his customers and staff in the long term. Particularly their comittment to faster broadband and their contract with TiVo.

He's not gone mad with the money yet, only buying his wife a new car. He is looking into pursuing other business oportunities.

Interestingly, the existing Smallworld PVR can record up to four channels with it's dual tuner!

Edit: Just remembered that he once said that Disney no longer wanted to supply their channels to such a small company and he had to take tnem off. It wasn't too small for VM not to bother with was it! In any case, the only 'work' that Disney had to do was collect the monthly payments!

theone2k10 · 23-02-2014, 14:40

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Thanks MM.

After selling Smallworld to VM (which only took about four weeks to go through), David, the former owner, has said that he thinks he could have got more money from at least one other party. The reason he didn't was because he thought that VM would be best for his customers and staff in the long term. Particularly their comittment to faster broadband and their contract with TiVo.

He's not gone mad with the money yet, only buying his wife a new car. He is looking into pursuing other business oportunities.

Interestingly, the existing Smallworld PVR can record up to four channels with it's dual tuner!

Edit: Just remembered that he once said that Disney no longer wanted to supply their channels to such a small company and he had to take tnem off. It wasn't too small for VM not to bother with was it! In any case, the only 'work' that Disney had to do was collect the monthly payments!

That's Disney for you think they are better than they actually are. It'd be helpful if their channel was even worth watching in the first place lol.

muppetman11 · 23-02-2014, 15:24

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Originally Posted by theone2k10

That's Disney for you think they are better than they actually are. It'd be helpful if their channel was even worth watching in the first place lol.

I would say with revenues in excess of $40 billion and a market cap of over $140 billion they've every right to think they're pretty good.