General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 4.

[dazed&confused]

Originally Posted by nstokes

Im shocked at how little the pages went up yesterday. I didnt come on here to late last night and found this thread had only gone up 1.5 pages. I thought it was a weekend when i came on until i realised it was a Monday

Same as All quiet on the Western Front.
Perhaps all the regular posters have sore digits after the furore of the last couple of weeks.

[Gavin-D]

Originally Posted by nstokes

Im shocked at how little the pages went up yesterday. I didnt come on here to late last night and found this thread had only gone up 1.5 pages. I thought it was a weekend when i came on until i realised it was a Monday

Now BT Sport is here people have nothing to chat about now well only Sky Atlantic but thats not a channel which bothers me to be honest

[Richc1977]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Now BT Sport is here people have nothing to chat about now well only Sky Atlantic but thats not a channel which bothers me to be honest

That's why I added the digital exclusive post. It's not something I'm bothered about but wanted to encourage the moaning again as I am missing it a bit

With BBC THREE, FOUR and NEWS24 coming in HD I am left with just Sky Atlantic HD, Sky Sports News HD and SS3 HD,SS4 HD,F1 HD missing in order to give me everything I really want.

Premier Sports for NHL but hoping BT will snap up the rights and show in HD.

More 4, History and Sky News all in HD would be a bonus but not that bothered.

By the way why the fuss over Universal HD? What's worth watching?

[heavyside]

Originally Posted by Richc1977

With BBC THREE, FOUR and NEWS24 coming in HD I am left with just Sky Atlantic HD, Sky Sports News HD and SS3 HD,SS4 HD,F1 HD missing in order to give me everything I really want.

More 4, History and Sky News all in HD would be a bonus

That would do it for me too.

[MutleyF]

Originally Posted by Richc1977

By the way why the fuss over Universal HD? What's worth watching?

Why the fuss over Sky News HD ?

All horses for courses

[Richc1977]

Originally Posted by MutleyF

Why the fuss over Sky News HD ?

All horses for courses

I'm not fussed about Sky News either but news is news always a bonus to have in HD for big news events, i.e. an election with flashy graphics, sports highlights etc..

I was seriously asking what's worth watching on Universal? It's not a critique just wondered if there was exclusive programming you can't get elsewhere in HD.

[MutleyF]

I have not watched the channel before, but most of the channels I have are simply repeating programs on the others

It has first run Psych, Royal Pains, Rookie Blue and anything else on USA Network that no other channel wants.

[vincerooney]

i kept refreshing the forum in work yesterday and i felt genuinely sad this thread wasnt being constantly battered with wild rumours, rowdy discussion and painful angst. I love having BT Sport but i now miss the chase...

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

i kept refreshing the forum in work yesterday and i felt genuinely sad this thread wasnt being constantly battered with wild rumours, rowdy discussion and painful angst. I love having BT Sport but i now miss the chase...

[denphone]

Someone knows more then he is letting on and l wonder who that is.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Richc1977

That's why I added the digital exclusive post. It's not something I'm bothered about but wanted to encourage the moaning again as I am missing it a bit

With BBC THREE, FOUR and NEWS24 coming in HD I am left with just Sky Atlantic HD, Sky Sports News HD and SS3 HD,SS4 HD,F1 HD missing in order to give me everything I really want.

Premier Sports for NHL but hoping BT will snap up the rights and show in HD.

More 4, History and Sky News all in HD would be a bonus but not that bothered.

By the way why the fuss over Universal HD? What's worth watching?

More 4 HD is in the pipeline and it wouldn't surprise me if Sky News HD appeared before BBC News HD starts.

For those interested, 5later discussions continue

[ocav]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

More 4 HD is in the pipeline and it wouldn't surprise me if Sky News HD appeared before BBC News HD starts.

For those interested, 5later discussions continue

More4HD was a Sky exclusive, im guessing that exclusivity ends when they get Film4HD.

Sky News HD will probably appear before BBC News HD as I would guess that BBC News HD will be the last of the new BBC HD channels to launch.

How do you know about discussions for 5Later?

[Aguero9320]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Good point - no idea I was just reporting what BenMcr posted on Cable Forum last Wednesday.

Fun post.

My Dad think I got BT Sports to sign with Virgin Media - he telling everyone that I got him BT Sports for nothing on his package.

I dream last night that all I saw the following channels was added to Virgin Media:

-5 Later
-Sky1 +1
-Pick TV +1
-Sky Atlantic
-Sky Atlantic +1
-Sky Atlantic HD
-Sky Sports 3 HD
-Sky Sports 4 HD
-Sky Sports F1 HD
-Sky Sports News HD
-Sky News HD

And I saw Virgin Media has renumberd all Entertainment Channel with all HD Channel being moved to channel 201 to 250.

With Lifestyle moving to Channel 251.
With Factual moving to Channel 351.

You know, I have been having similar dreams for ages. I have been hoping for VM to absorb both Smallworld Cable and WightFibre to form one large company and have a largely unlimited list of channels for us all to enjoy!

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

Story now fixed on Blog.

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May so.

But I think the deal with CSC Media Group is up in October 2013 or March 2014 so we may get:

-Bliss
-BuzMuzik
-Chart Show TV
-Chart Show TV Dance
-Flava
-Kix
-Kix Power
-POP
-Pop Girl
-Scuzz
-The Vault
-Tiny Pop +1
-True Drama
-True Movies 2

Everyone brace yourselves for a possible host of new channels coming in between MB has stated.

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http://www.a516digital.com/2013/08/t...nnel.html#more

Discovery set to launch two-hour timeshift channel of TLC on Monday, 16th September.

It is not yet known if Virgin will launch the channel.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by ocav

More4HD was a Sky exclusive, im guessing that exclusivity ends when they get Film4HD.

Sky News HD will probably appear before BBC News HD as I would guess that BBC News HD will be the last of the new BBC HD channels to launch.

How do you know about discussions for 5Later?

Also, I imagine that Sky will suddenly want Sky News HD on VM just before BBC News HD starts, to steal a march on them.

I was told about the 5 Later discussions at a "do" I was at by a member of the VM management team.

Don't know anything else about it, not even what the channel is about.

I imagine it will be similar to the Channel 4 service "4Seven", or perhaps a more adult themed service.

The name of the channel suggests to me that it might be a part time evening/night service. This begs the question as to whether Channel 5 are going to eventually launch their daytime childrens channel "Milkshake".

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Originally Posted by Aguero9320

Discovery set to launch two-hour timeshift channel of TLC on Monday, 16th September.

It is not yet known if Virgin will launch the channel.

I doubt that it will, +2 channels have only ever been on Sky as placeholder channels to reserve their place on the EPG. Such measures aren't neccessary on VM and +2 variants have never been added to the VM EPG in the past.