General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by epsilon

I think that what happens to the subscription packs will be the most interesting part of Tuesday's changes. The Entertainment tier could be flooded with extra channels with the other sections becoming more specialised. Followed by an over the top price increase to justify the extra channels. Just one option, anything could happen.

My views of Virgin Media UK keeping the SD Channels of Sky Arts and Sky News may be down to them being on Freeview.

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Originally Posted by TimeLord2018

It appears Sky vacated slots - 136-138 aren't getting reused from Tuesday but others are for some reason.

My own view is maybe a reason is down to Virgin was willing to move Sky HISTORY Channels down to Channel 136 but Sky says no.

[TimeLord2018]

Originally Posted by Media Boy UK

My views of Virgin Media UK keeping the SD Channels of Sky Arts and Sky News may be down to them being on Freeview.

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My own view is maybe a reason is down to Virgin was willing to move Sky HISTORY Channels down to Channel 136 but Sky says no.

Why would think that ? Also the channels are based A+E headquarters rather than Sky.

There still managed and operated by the A+E Networks UK team

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Aguero9320

]I'm also surprised VM aren't getting the likes of Boomerang HD, CNN HD, CNBC HD, Nick Jr. HD or the remaining Channel 5 HD channels.

Well Virgin Media did remove all of UKTV's SD Channels on June 30th last year but Drama's and YESTERDAY's HD channels was only launch on December 14th.

So your list of missing channels may launch in the coming months on Virgin for all we know.

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Originally Posted by TimeLord2018

Why would think that ? Also the channels are based A+E headquarters rather than Sky.

If A&E did not want Sky HISTORY Channels to move I would have think Sky Documentaries HD and Sky Nature HD would move to Channels 136 and 137 with the SD and +1 Sky own channels moving up by one slot (with Pick having 138 and E! HD having 156 and so on).

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by Media Boy UK

My views of Virgin Media UK keeping the SD Channels of Sky Arts and Sky News may be down to them being on Freeview.

An interesting thought. So maybe if the government had an actual plan for broadcasting rather than random, badly thought out, plans that come to nothing such as the C4 privatisation, we may have had a Freeview service upgraded to DVB-T2 with more HD services as standard. Then everyone would be getting Sky Arts in HD.

My own view is maybe a reason is down to Virgin was willing to move Sky HISTORY Channels down to Channel 136 but Sky says no.

I don't know about Sky saying no but maybe you are onto something here and there could be more changes to come in phase 2. Or phase 3 if you take the clearance of channels in the upper 200s as phase 1, the start of the EPG housekeeping changes.

[johnasimmons]

Sky Atlantic finally coming?

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by johnasimmons

Sky Atlantic finally coming?

Only for viewers expecting to see PPV boxing.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by johnasimmons

Sky Atlantic finally coming?

If Sky Atlantic was set to launch on Virgin.

Base on Sky EPG - Virgin UK Channel 111 (Sky Comedy HD from Tomorrow) would be a free slot from Tomorrow.

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You got more chance of winning the lottery.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by johnasimmons

Sky Atlantic finally coming?

Don't be daft John.

[SonicMaster]

Originally Posted by Media Boy UK

If Sky Atlantic was set to launch on Virgin.

Base on Sky EPG - Virgin UK Channel 111 (Sky Comedy HD from Tomorrow) would be a free slot from Tomorrow.

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You got more chance of winning the lottery.

We already know that 111 will be Sky Max HD from tomorrow.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by johnasimmons

Sky Atlantic finally coming?

more chance of it snowing in hell forever

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by epsilon

Funnily enough, I had just made the same point about 113 on DS and maybe something could be done about the slot sharing arrangement for BBC Alba / ITV Be +1. STV SD was removed a long time ago though, so why wasn't BBC 3 moved earlier?

The Sky Arts situation is more about what isn't being disclosed on the discovery bar info. I get that Sky won't want the Mixit / M / Player version in HD but I can't see it staying in SD for users on levels in between. Sky Arts was originally in the Documentaries personal pick so the HD version could be made available to anyone with that. Probably better to put it in the Entertainment+ Tier though as the SD version is already available to basic level users. Same with Sky News HD, although there are no details at all of what will happen there. It will be interesting to see which subscription tiers the Sky channels fall into after the change.

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A lot of SD channels with dual illumination (i.e. also available in HD) will be removed with the HD channels shuffled up to fill the gaps. I guess the HD channels will also have to change to the subscription packs used by the SD channels being removed or there will be a lot of phone calls from disgruntled customers.

Totally get what you are saying , banner just says hd is easier to find , SD channels are shown as far forward as the epg lets me go .

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Totally get what you are saying , banner just says hd is easier to find , SD channels are shown as far forward as the epg lets me go .

Just check the EPG tomorrow, it will be much clearer then.

[Dingbat]

Originally Posted by Dave42

more chance of it snowing in hell forever

Can you wait until Wednesday?

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/tw...=Hell%2CNorway

[Media Boy UK]

epsilon has posted the following on DS Forum about USID numbers:

On April 6th 2022: "2256" for channel called "Test 1420" was added

Then on September 22nd 2022: "2260" for channel called "PPV PPC" (DAZN) leaving a gap from 2257-2259.

These slots was filled on January 20th with the 3 Sky Sports UHD that are testing right now on Virgin Media.

So Virgin did know the Sky Sports UHD channels was set to launch by September 21st 2022.

Disclosure: Gaps in the USID sequence don't always get filled

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...ment_102239327

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by Media Boy UK

epsilon has posted the following on DS Forum about USID numbers:



https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...ment_102239327

It's not really a quote if you retype it and change the wording.