General : Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Remember then we had to have a new thread nearly every month because of all the channel launches?? I wonder what has changed to make virgin media go from 3 channel launches a month on average (mainly rubbish) to literally not launching a single thing since january.

A lot of it has been about "broadband speeds" but considering majority of broadband around the UK has mega utilisation issues (im on 100MB and i can't get 2MB during peak) is this something to brag about? I wouldnt put all my eggs in one basket then a lot of people are very, very angry on the VM official forum about what they're getting. I left a very polite thread over my issues in the L10 area. There is a lot of mega profanity about VM broadband issues. Even more anger over the VM bragging over the telephone service being awarded top in the UK.

Whoever decided to stop launching channels and "content" and start concentrating on "speed" and "internet services" needs to be taken to the hang mans rope. Never concentrate all your service on an area which is really, really struggling.

The fact VM can now go "nahhh dont need anymore channels we're broadband baby!!" shows upper management are so detached from their product it frightens me. I'm being quoted huge reference numbers to call up to get a "refund". i asked why i can't get a refund automatically since VM know im getting dangerously bad broadband speeds. I was told "It hadnt been agreed".

Its a case of the right hand doesnt know what the left hand is talking about. If i didnt despise sky so much i would leave happily now. The fact VM think they're in a position to stop adding channel content really, really annoys me.

Bar the Sky Channels can you name anymore 'Must have' channels?

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I would 'Like' to have:

CI HD (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland areas right now).
CI +1
HISTORY HD (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland areas right now).
Lifetime +1
Lifetime HD
BoxNation HD
Pick +1
Sky1 +1 (Broadcasts in Smallworld areas right now).
Sky Sports F1 HD
Sky Sports 3 HD
Sky Sports 4 HD
Sky Sports News HD (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland areas right now).
Chart Show TV
Blass
Flava
Kix
POP
Pop Girl
Scuzz
Starz TV
The Vault
Disney Channel HD (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland areas right now).
Disney Junior HD
Disney XD HD
Capital FM TV
Heart FM TV
True Drama
True Movies 2
Nat Wild HD (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland areas right now).
Comedy Central Extra +1
More>Movies
Movies 4 Men (Broadcasts in Smallworld areas right now).
Sony Movie Channel
E! HD
Universal Channel HD
MTV CLASSIC (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland and Smallworld areas right now).
MTV LIVE
MTV +1 (Broadcasts in Smallworld areas right now).

[Mad Max]

When would you be able to watch all those channels MB?

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

Didn't know about the Warner one am going to give that a try as they offer a 2 week trial. If any good i'll report back.

How did you get on with Warner Archive Instant?

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Bar the Sky Channels can you name anymore 'Must have' channels?

---------- Post added at 15:19 ---------- Previous post was at 15:05 ----------

I would 'Like' to have:

HISTORY HD (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland areas right now).
Lifetime HD
Sky1 +1 (Broadcasts in Smallworld areas right now).
Sky Sports F1 HD
Sky Sports News HD (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland areas right now).
Chart Show TV
Blass
Flava
Kix
POP
Pop Girl
Scuzz
Starz TV
The Vault
Capital FM TV
Heart FM TV
Comedy Central Extra +1
Sony Movie Channel
E! HD
Universal Channel HD
MTV CLASSIC (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland and Smallworld areas right now).
MTV LIVE
MTV +1 (Broadcasts in Smallworld areas right now).

Pretty much all those and my obsession with Fox News which i still want. More +1 channels for me to discover more tv shows. More HD channels for me to finally respect HD. More music channels so when i'm drunk i can listen to more things.

[toady]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Remember then we had to have a new thread nearly every month because of all the channel launches?? I wonder what has changed to make virgin media go from 3 channel launches a month on average (mainly rubbish) to literally not launching a single thing since january.

A lot of it has been about "broadband speeds" but considering majority of broadband around the UK has mega utilisation issues (im on 100MB and i can't get 2MB during peak) is this something to brag about? I wouldnt put all my eggs in one basket then a lot of people are very, very angry on the VM official forum about what they're getting. I left a very polite thread over my issues in the L10 area. There is a lot of mega profanity about VM broadband issues. Even more anger over the VM bragging over the telephone service being awarded top in the UK.

Whoever decided to stop launching channels and "content" and start concentrating on "speed" and "internet services" needs to be taken to the hang mans rope. Never concentrate all your service on an area which is really, really struggling.

The fact VM can now go "nahhh dont need anymore channels we're broadband baby!!" shows upper management are so detached from their product it frightens me. I'm being quoted huge reference numbers to call up to get a "refund". i asked why i can't get a refund automatically since VM know im getting dangerously bad broadband speeds. I was told "It hadnt been agreed".

Its a case of the right hand doesnt know what the left hand is talking about. If i didnt despise sky so much i would leave happily now. The fact VM think they're in a position to stop adding channel content really, really annoys me.

Hopefully Virgin is seeing that the future is streaming and not linear channels with Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast, Now TV and now Amazon, all of which need broadband

As others have said apart from missing Sky channels, there doesn't appear to be anything worth getting. Extra music channels are not going to set the world alight

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by toady

Hopefully Virgin is seeing that the future is streaming and not linear channels with Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast, Now TV and now Amazon, all of which need broadband

As others have said apart from missing Sky channels, there doesn't appear to be anything worth getting. Extra music channels are not going to set the world alight

Not disagreeing with you but isn't there an argument that owning content then becomes important as well otherwise your TV revenues all but dry up.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

How did you get on with Warner Archive Instant?

I found it very buggy and it just wasn't my cup of tea. I didn't even bother with the full two week free trial.

[Media Boy UK]

Over the weekend I saw a 'Sky1 +1' sign on Sky1 when watching WWE Superstars.

and telling Virgin viewers to go to virginmedia.com/watchskysports if their want to upgrade to Sky Sports.

also just saw one for virginmedia.com/watchskymoves.

[DJ-SWITCH]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Over the weekend I saw a 'Sky1 +1' sign on Sky1 when watching WWE Superstars.

and telling Virgin viewers to go to virginmedia.com/watchskysports if their want to upgrade to Sky Sports.

also just saw one for virginmedia.com/watchskymoves.

Could be a sine of the missing channels

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by DJ-SWITCH

Could be a sine of the missing channels

we can hope so but we have heard it before so lets see

[zantarous]

Originally Posted by toady

Hopefully Virgin is seeing that the future is streaming and not linear channels with Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast, Now TV and now Amazon, all of which need broadband

It doesn't fit with their business model though, they make money on selling channel packages, if people start reducing their package size and taking out streaming subs revenue will go down.

heck even I for the first time in 17 years am thinking of culling my cable sub and getting some streaming subs. I seem to watch more Netflix then normal broadcast TV and it is more out of convenience, as I can watch on any device I chose where I chose and the content is the same no matter where I sign in.

[harry_hitch]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Pretty much all those and my obsession with Fox News which i still want. More +1 channels for me to discover more tv shows. More HD channels for me to finally respect HD. More music channels so when i'm drunk i can listen to more things.

I genuinely do not wish to sound condescending, and I guess you would have already out the option, but you could always listen to some of the many excellent DAB radio stations available in this country bud (digital radios can be bought dirt cheap these days) or failing that the Internet has some equally excellent stations.

If you want videos too though, I can understand your frustration.

[undertakereddie]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Over the weekend I saw a 'Sky1 +1' sign on Sky1 when watching WWE Superstars.

and telling Virgin viewers to go to virginmedia.com/watchskysports if their want to upgrade to Sky Sports.

also just saw one for virginmedia.com/watchskymoves.

There is also another tv advert from sky telling Virgin Media Customers to Upgrade to Sky Movies While Showing Sky Movies Super Heroes. I saw it today (14/4/2014) while Watching The Simpsons on Sky 1.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by undertakereddie

There is also another tv advert from sky telling Virgin Media Customers to Upgrade to Sky Movies While Showing Sky Movies Super Heroes. I saw it today (14/4/2014) while Watching The Simpsons on Sky 1.

The relationship between Sky and Virgin has improved greatly over the last 18 months or so.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by undertakereddie

There is also another tv advert from sky telling Virgin Media Customers to Upgrade to Sky Movies While Showing Sky Movies Super Heroes. I saw it today (14/4/2014) while Watching The Simpsons on Sky 1.

Do these adverts look like paid for advertisements by Sky (even though they're on their own channels), or do they appear to be more like a VM barker type thing, as per the type shown on the on demand channels?

Knowing who looks to have instigated these promotions may help us to figure out if this is a good sign or not...