Today, 09:50
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Northampton
Services: Virgin Media TV&BB 350Mb,
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
If you've added a TV series to your watchlist, it will provide any new series automatically - you don't have to re-set it when a new series starts, it'll just be there.
Apart from the alerts you get with trailers on the various channels, there are TV listings magazines and your EPG to alert you to new series, which is surely how you find out about any new programme.
I think you'll find over the coming years that we have little choice in the matter - on demand is how everyone will be accessing their content.
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Only if the series is currently showing and you know which channel(there isn't an all channels option). Eg I currently have a series link for "Dragons Den". There are no episodes due in next 2 weeks. As such, I wouldn't be able to set up series link with TV360.
With a on-demand only set-up, there can be no EPG.
When I tried to use on-demand yesterday as a test, the number of different hoops I had to jump through were quite ridiculous. That's before getting into the absence of other functionality that is present in any video playing app. In the time it takes to start watching an on-demand programme, I might well have finished watched the recorded version. Just crazy.
Sky Stream is due to make a change where you can flag programmes as ones to be recorded. The recordings are kept by Sky. Helps keeping a list of programmes yet to be watched, rather than having to keep detailed records somewhere.
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Today, 10:37
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#1067
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EU citizen proud of it!
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Belfast
Services: TV 360 Maxit TV, Gig1 bb & a landline.....
Posts: 1,455
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
If only there was a list of what you want to watch somewhere on the 360..... Like a watchlist!
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Today, 11:14
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#1068
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cf.geek
Join Date: Oct 2018
Services: 1GB Broadband, TV 360 + Stream, Prime, Netflix, Apple TV, Disney+, Paramount+
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by nomadking
Only if the series is currently showing and you know which channel(there isn't an all channels option). Eg I currently have a series link for "Dragons Den". There are no episodes due in next 2 weeks. As such, I wouldn't be able to set up series link with TV360.
With a on-demand only set-up, there can be no EPG.
When I tried to use on-demand yesterday as a test, the number of different hoops I had to jump through were quite ridiculous. That's before getting into the absence of other functionality that is present in any video playing app. In the time it takes to start watching an on-demand programme, I might well have finished watched the recorded version. Just crazy.
Sky Stream is due to make a change where you can flag programmes as ones to be recorded. The recordings are kept by Sky. Helps keeping a list of programmes yet to be watched, rather than having to keep detailed records somewhere.
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But the cloud recordings are only kept for 1 year and doesn't include all channels.
Virgin could do this if they wanted, Horizon software is capable of cloud recordings, is used in Ireland but cloud recording doesn't work on RTE.
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Today, 12:34
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#1069
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cf.geek
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 734
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
A little 'hack' for anyone wanting to watch HD versions of 5Drama, 5USA and 5Star live on Virgin TV. You can watch them all from the 5 app. A shame VM can't just make those HD feeds available from the EPG instead of the fuzzy compressed SD ones.
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Today, 15:33
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#1070
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Northampton
Services: Virgin Media TV&BB 350Mb,
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Posts: 8,423
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by SonicMaster
A little 'hack' for anyone wanting to watch HD versions of 5Drama, 5USA and 5Star live on Virgin TV. You can watch them all from the 5 app. A shame VM can't just make those HD feeds available from the EPG instead of the fuzzy compressed SD ones.
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But are they simply upscaled versions. The older TV series would never have been in HD.
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Today, 16:38
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#1071
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Services: XL TV
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Posts: 2,614
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
https://www.channel4.com/press/news/...annel-4-disney
Channel 4 have done a deal with Disney plus. So that’ll mean I can watch channel 4 stuff on Disney plus without horrendous adverts I hope !
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Today, 17:05
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#1072
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Do I care what you think
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Cardiff South Wales
Age: 76
Services: V6 ,Virgin L. Phone Broadband.sky go Netflix
Posts: 5,669
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by vincerooney
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Wondering what's in for the them , hardly going to get them more business.
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Today, 17:40
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#1073
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Roger_Gooner
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: London
Services: Virgin Media M350, Hub 5, Mega TV with TNT Sports and Sky Sports & Cinema HD, TV 360 box + landline
Posts: 193
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by vincerooney
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Channel 4's on-demand shows will be ad-free only if you subscribe to one of Disney+’s ad-free plans. Live TV will have ads as usual.
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