General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3

[nialli]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

It in the same family tree as Turner. HBO is Turner wee brother.

It the same with Smallworld - Liberty Global do not own it.

TimeWarner is the parent of Warner Bros, HBO and Turner Broadcasting.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by nialli

TimeWarner is the parent of Warner Bros, HBO and Turner Broadcasting.

Indeed however the point I was making with Media Boy still stands Turner Broadcasting and HBO are run as separate subsidiaries under the ownership of Time Warner.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Indeed however the point I was making with Media Boy still stands Turner Broadcasting and HBO are run as separate subsidiaries under the ownership of Time Warner.

Yes, so my semi-serious point about HBO OnDemand is invalid; Turner and HBO appear to be run as separate subsidiaries of TimeWarner.

[Media Boy UK]

Is today Sunday?

Have seen no new information today.

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Originally Posted by vincerooney

I'm guessing trutv didn't launch on VM or did I miss it?

Have not seen any update since Monday on TruTV as theone2k10 says latest I have is 'Still in talks with Virgin Media.'

[Media Boy UK]

Virgin Media and TruTV fall out?

Has Virgin Media and TruTV stop talking?

Originally Posted by stuartrossdavie

just noticed 'virgin media' has been removed from the wording on truTV faqs

Info from: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=1423
TruTV Q&A: http://www.trutv.co.uk/en/faq

Info thanks to DS Forum, stuartrossdavie and TruTV web site.

[Mad Max]

I hope they just bin it, its friggin rubbish!

[Horizon]

Here's a couple of titbits of news/rumours from Liberty's latest Q2 earnings which was released earlier:

A lot of talk on here a while back about whether Amazon Prime (formerly Lovefilm) would come to VM or not. Well, still no clearer on that today, but something I didn't know is that Liberty have their own Netflix type service called MyPrime which is being rolled out across their cablecos.

MyPrime costs about the same per month as Netflix, or, if you take a higher priced bundle it comes free as part of that bundle. Perhaps this may come to VM soon.

Secondly, Liberty's cloud based service is launching in Poland. We have Tivo in the UK, but in Liberty's other cablecos they use their own software and stbs called Horizon. Liberty have teamed up with Comcast and Time Warner Cable to centralise software standards and they call this RDK (Reference Design Kit). The Horizon cloud based service launching in Poland is based on RDK software and standards.

Here's a review of the Dutch MyPrime service here, translated already for you:

http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...80%26bih%3D566

News items about RDK:

http://www.lightreading.com/cable-vi.../d/d-id/708205

http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/1301...s-RDK-Gateways

http://www.lightreading.com/cable-vi.../d/d-id/708670

And for those interested in Horizon and have not already done so, have a gander over to Liberty's Irish cableco site for info:

http://www.upc.ie/horizontv/discover-horizon/

[1andrew1]

Interesting stuff, thanks for pulling it all together.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

I hope they just bin it, its friggin rubbish!

+1

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Horizon

...And for those interested in Horizon and have not already done so, have a gander over to Liberty's Irish cableco site for info...

Is your user name a coincidence or are you a fan/developer of the Horizon platform?

[Parlyboy]

Had a look at the Horizon box, looks impressive but also interesting that they have 200Mb broadband as well.

[theone2k10]

According to a poster on Dspy WWE will be $9.99 globaly, they had a press conference and said the $9.99p/m subject to a 6 month commitment or $19.99p/m with no commitment price would apply to WWE Network globaly not just the USA.
This works out about £5.60p/m or £12.70p/m

[Doug P]

Originally Posted by denphone

+1

They cannot even spell!

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Is your user name a coincidence or are you a fan/developer of the Horizon platform?

Had the username long before Liberty created their horizon software, so no, not connected to them. As for being a fan, if Liberty can create some decent cable software that is fast and actually works then I'll happily become a fan, but then what will we have left to moan about if everything works?

[blue666666]

Has anyone heard about amazon prime coming to virgin. There has been talk about it in the news back in march just wonder whether anyone had an update