General Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2 - Page 3

vincerooney · 03-05-2016, 19:24

There is so much inactivity whenever I get drunk these days I just go to sleep rather than here.

Any news on the TiVo update? Still haven't had it

03-05-2016, 19:34

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Originally Posted by vincerooney

There is so much inactivity whenever I get drunk these days I just go to sleep rather than here.

Any news on the TiVo update? Still haven't had it

Nothing that I have heard of yet

spiderplant · 03-05-2016, 19:39

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Originally Posted by vincerooney

Any news on the TiVo update?

The pilot continues.

denphone · 03-05-2016, 20:28

For several more weeks l gather?.

Aguero9320 · 03-05-2016, 22:28

I'm hoping regular channel activity comes in very soon. I am getting bored with the lack of new channels. I am hoping for all of the following channels:

Spike TV
5STAR +1
Nick Jr +1
QVC Beauty/Extra/Style
Hochanda/The Craft Channel
Rocks & Co
Food Network +1
Travel Channel +1
movies4men/movies4men +1
Sony Movies/Sony Movies +1
Sony Channel +1
Heart TV
Capital TV
True Crime/True Crime +1
TruTV/TruTV +1
YourTV/YourTV +1
Fox News
Talking Pictures TV
POP/POP +1/Kix/Kix +1/Tiny Pop +1
RT/RT HD
Sky Atlantic SD/+1/HD
Disney Channel HD
Disney Junior +/HD
Disney XD HD
Boomerang HD
AMC/AMC HD
Irish TV
Universal Channel HD
E! +1/HD

The list goes on...

03-05-2016, 22:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aguero9320

I'm hoping regular channel activity comes in very soon. I am getting bored with the lack of new channels. I am hoping for all of the following channels:

Spike TV
5STAR +1
Nick Jr +1
QVC Beauty/Extra/Style
Hochanda/The Craft Channel
Rocks & Co
Food Network +1
Travel Channel +1
movies4men/movies4men +1
Sony Movies/Sony Movies +1
Sony Channel +1
Heart TV
Capital TV
True Crime/True Crime +1
TruTV/TruTV +1
YourTV/YourTV +1
Fox News
Talking Pictures TV
POP/POP +1/Kix/Kix +1/Tiny Pop +1
RT/RT HD
Sky Atlantic SD/+1/HD
Disney Channel HD
Disney Junior +/HD
Disney XD HD
Boomerang HD
AMC/AMC HD
Irish TV
Universal Channel HD
E! +1/HD

The list goes on...

Well sadly we are only getting QVC Beauty/Extra nothing else on the horizon, some of those channels are on the Irish part of virgin media but Sky Atlantic there is no chance.

So all we know coming up this year

QVC Beauty/Extra
New TiVo
New Apps and steaming App
Nearly forgot more price rises

Mr K · 03-05-2016, 23:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aguero9320

I'm hoping regular channel activity comes in very soon. I am getting bored with the lack of new channels. I am hoping for all of the following channels:

Spike TV
5STAR +1
Nick Jr +1
QVC Beauty/Extra/Style
Hochanda/The Craft Channel
Rocks & Co
Food Network +1
Travel Channel +1
movies4men/movies4men +1
Sony Movies/Sony Movies +1
Sony Channel +1
Heart TV
Capital TV
True Crime/True Crime +1
TruTV/TruTV +1
YourTV/YourTV +1
Fox News
Talking Pictures TV
POP/POP +1/Kix/Kix +1/Tiny Pop +1
RT/RT HD
Sky Atlantic SD/+1/HD
Disney Channel HD
Disney Junior +/HD
Disney XD HD
Boomerang HD
AMC/AMC HD
Irish TV
Universal Channel HD
E! +1/HD

The list goes on...

You'd be better getting Sky/Freeview.

Mad Max · 03-05-2016, 23:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aguero9320

I'm hoping regular channel activity comes in very soon. I am getting bored with the lack of new channels. I am hoping for all of the following channels:

Spike TV
5STAR +1
Nick Jr +1
QVC Beauty/Extra/Style
Hochanda/The Craft Channel
Rocks & Co
Food Network +1
Travel Channel +1
movies4men/movies4men +1
Sony Movies/Sony Movies +1
Sony Channel +1
Heart TV
Capital TV
True Crime/True Crime +1
TruTV/TruTV +1
YourTV/YourTV +1
Fox News
Talking Pictures TV
POP/POP +1/Kix/Kix +1/Tiny Pop +1
RT/RT HD
Sky Atlantic SD/+1/HD
Disney Channel HD
Disney Junior +/HD
Disney XD HD
Boomerang HD
AMC/AMC HD
Irish TV
Universal Channel HD
E! +1/HD

The list goes on...

You're takin the mick..................

Arthurgray50@blu · 03-05-2016, 23:41

Don't like to say this, but VM don't seem to bother about what customers want. All they want to push is +1 channels - BUT, these are repeat channels and hour later or less.

I spoke with a Sky rep today. And they plan to bring out a new sales gimmick to challenge for more VM subsribers .

They offered me a great deal today, but my wife said that she will think about it.

And for her to say that, there must be something wrong with VM. Could be the fact VM keep pushing up the price.

Enough is enough.

I heard that the TV show 'Kingdom' may be coming to VM. Is that the Kingdom, who is a solicitor ?

theone2k10 · 03-05-2016, 23:51

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Don't like to say this, but VM don't seem to bother about what customers want. All they want to push is +1 channels - BUT, these are repeat channels and hour later or less.

I spoke with a Sky rep today. And they plan to bring out a new sales gimmick to challenge for more VM subsribers .

They offered me a great deal today, but my wife said that she will think about it.

And for her to say that, there must be something wrong with VM. Could be the fact VM keep pushing up the price.

Enough is enough.

I heard that the TV show 'Kingdom' may be coming to VM. Is that the Kingdom, who is a solicitor ?

Kingdom is a drama set in the world of mma (mixed martial arts) it isn't too bad tbf.
Always be aware the grass may not be greener on the otherside.

VirginMediaPhil · 04-05-2016, 00:06

+1 channels are nice but not really a necessity… the only channel I really want that's missing at the moment is Spike, and really that's just for repeats of shows like Police Interceptors that I like to watch if nothing else is on.

truTV would have been nice to have back when they were showing Conan, but they've dropped it now unfortunately.

What I'd really like to see is a HD swap similar to Sky. There are now so many HD simulcasts that it would really be nice to hide the SD channels and have the HD version in their place.

muppetman11 · 04-05-2016, 00:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Don't like to say this, but VM don't seem to bother about what customers want. All they want to push is +1 channels - BUT, these are repeat channels and hour later or less.

I spoke with a Sky rep today. And they plan to bring out a new sales gimmick to challenge for more VM subsribers .

They offered me a great deal today, but my wife said that she will think about it.

And for her to say that, there must be something wrong with VM. Could be the fact VM keep pushing up the price.

Enough is enough.

I heard that the TV show 'Kingdom' may be coming to VM. Is that the Kingdom, who is a solicitor ?

Is there a Sky rep you haven't spoken to.

04-05-2016, 00:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by VirginMediaPhil

+1 channels are nice but not really a necessity… the only channel I really want that's missing at the moment is Spike, and really that's just for repeats of shows like Police Interceptors that I like to watch if nothing else is on.

truTV would have been nice to have back when they were showing Conan, but they've dropped it now unfortunately.

What I'd really like to see is a HD swap similar to Sky. There are now so many HD simulcasts that it would really be nice to hide the SD channels and have the HD version in their place.

I have thought that for a while where if there is a HD and SD version of channel to turn off the SD version. Maybe this forum should be renamed what's happening at virgin media 2016 as there is nothing really coming soon

1andrew1 · 04-05-2016, 08:17

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Originally Posted by andrewstevenson

I have thought that for a while where if there is a HD and SD version of channel to turn off the SD version. Maybe this forum should be renamed what's happening at virgin media 2016 as there is nothing really coming soon

Generally I would agree with you but I think those who record a lot like the lower PVR hard disk space that SD recordings use.

---------- Post added at 06:17 ---------- Previous post was at 05:57 ----------

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Originally Posted by andrewstevenson

Well sadly we are only getting QVC Beauty/Extra nothing else on the horizon, some of those channels are on the Irish part of virgin media but Sky Atlantic there is no chance.

So all we know coming up this year

QVC Beauty/Extra
New TiVo
New Apps and steaming App
Nearly forgot more price rises

Plus:
- Expanded cable network
- Few more local TV stations
- Possible - Additional BBC services for duration of large sporting events, maybe via iPlayer?
- Ad-hoc on-demand eg Kingdom
- Possible - Amazon Prime app. Rumoured to be launching on YouView; if so I think a VM launch would be likely as it shows Amazon's enthusiasm to widen distribution.

04-05-2016, 09:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Generally I would agree with you but I think those who record a lot like the lower PVR hard disk space that SD recordings use.

---------- Post added at 06:17 ---------- Previous post was at 05:57 ----------

Plus:
- Expanded cable network
- Few more local TV stations
- Possible - Additional BBC services for duration of large sporting events, maybe via iPlayer?
- Ad-hoc on-demand eg Kingdom
- Possible - Amazon Prime app. Rumoured to be launching on YouView; if so I think a VM launch would be likely as it shows Amazon's enthusiasm to widen distribution.

An expanded cable network is only public knowledge due to virgins low coverage, local tv is not created by virgin, BBC Iplayer will provide this across all platform