General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by MutleyF

As much as we all hate it, I agree that its doubtful that the licence fee is going anywhere.

Indeed, the licence fee has (I believe I read) paid for the development of Teletext, High Definition, Digital Radio, and catch up TV (the CEO at the time, Ashley Highfield developed the Iplayer). Plus, can you imagine the BBC news website splattered in ads to help pay for it if the licence is abolished .....

Hate paying it the same as everyone, but then I also hate paying road tax !

Yes, let's get rid of that too!

Incidentally, just found the link below regarding the licence fee.

If they were to abolish the licence fee and introduce subscriptions, this would give an incentive to those who do not currently have pay-TV to go for that instead of the BBC. This will help the Sky/VM/BT/Talk Talk coffers.

Maybe that increased revenue would help to pay for some of our missing TV channels.

http://advanced-television.com/2015/...o-be-scrapped/

John Whittingdale, who was this week appointed Culture Secretary, has made no secret of his belief that the licence fee is in need of reform, describing it as “worse than the poll tax”.

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

You can get Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 on it own.

You need the Sky Sports Pack for Sky Sports 3, Sky Sports 4, Sky Sports 5 and Sky Sports F1.

Our Sky Source only says Sky Movies is being worked on.

Maybe so, but I expect the Sports channels will be next, unless they've worked out that people will cease their high level subscriptions for sport rather than be forced to pay more to get the whole package.

[Anypermitedroute]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

We have seen no confirmed info from our Virgin Sources on when Nat Geo Wild HD may launch.

That's a bummer, thanks for the update

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute

That's a bummer, thanks for the update

We feel that Nat Geo Wild HD not launching yesterday was down to "technical issues".

The Africa Channel, ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD did have some "technical issues" before launching on Virgin Media in the past.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

You can get Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 on it own.

You need the Sky Sports Pack for Sky Sports 3, Sky Sports 4, Sky Sports 5 and Sky Sports F1.

Our Sky Source only says Sky Movies is being worked on.

As posted a couple of months ago, when I cancelled SKY Movies with SKY they asked if I'd consider taking movies again if offered on an on demand basis only. So no linear movies channels on my EPG, but access too all the movies through my SKY+ box on demand. I'm pretty sure the suggested price was £10.00 per month.

I've not seen anything anywhere else to back this up so we'll just have to wait and see.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Chad

As posted a couple of months ago, when I cancelled SKY Movies with SKY they asked if I'd consider taking movies again if offered on an on demand basis only. So no linear movies channels on my EPG, but access too all the movies through my SKY+ box on demand. I'm pretty sure the suggested price was £10.00 per month.

I've not seen anything anywhere else to back this up so we'll just have to wait and see.

Our Sky Source told us the same thing.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...-from-epg.html

[muppetman11]

To be honest Chad I wouldn't at all be surprised if we saw the number of Sky Movie linear channels cut in the future.

Sky could easily just keep Sky Premiere and another channel which showcased movies from all the other Sky Movie channels and focus on their On Demand offering it would certainly save massive amounts of money.

They've already announced they'll introduce a live restart function on the Sky Movie channel allowing anyone who comes in part way through a movie the ability to start it over.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

To be honest Chad I wouldn't at all be surprised if we saw the number of Sky Movie linear channels cut in the future.

Sky could easily just keep Sky Premiere and another channel which showcased movies from all the other Sky Movie channels and focus on their On Demand offering it would certainly save massive amounts of money.

They've already announced they'll introduce a live restart function on the Sky Movie channel allowing anyone who comes in part way through a movie the ability to start it over.

Interesting. I wonder if this is all building towards the release of their new PVR?

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by Chad

As posted a couple of months ago, when I cancelled SKY Movies with SKY they asked if I'd consider taking movies again if offered on an on demand basis only. So no linear movies channels on my EPG, but access too all the movies through my SKY+ box on demand. I'm pretty sure the suggested price was £10.00 per month.

I've not seen anything anywhere else to back this up so we'll just have to wait and see.

It'll be offered to Virgin customers too but vm will prob charge £17 and then say it was Skys fault even if it wasn't lol.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

To be honest Chad I wouldn't at all be surprised if we saw the number of Sky Movie linear channels cut in the future.

Sky could easily just keep Sky Premiere and another channel which showcased movies from all the other Sky Movie channels and focus on their On Demand offering it would certainly save massive amounts of money.

They've already announced they'll introduce a live restart function on the Sky Movie channel allowing anyone who comes in part way through a movie the ability to start it over.

Maybe they could go back to Sky movies and Sky movies max and Sky movies gold days, i think those were the names of Sky movies quite a few years back or was it Sky Cinema?

[piquet41]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

It'll be offered to Virgin customers too but vm will prob charge £17 and then say it was Skys fault even if it wasn't lol.

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Maybe they could go back to Sky movies and Sky movies max and Sky movies gold days, i think those were the names of Sky movies quite a few years back or was it Sky Cinema?

SKY MOVIES and THE MOVIE CHANNEL

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by piquet41

SKY MOVIES and THE MOVIE CHANNEL

Thanks.

[Media Boy UK]

Virgin sources have just told us that Virgin Media will now try to launch Nat Geo Wild HD on June 2nd.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Chad

As posted a couple of months ago, when I cancelled SKY Movies with SKY they asked if I'd consider taking movies again if offered on an on demand basis only. So no linear movies channels on my EPG, but access too all the movies through my SKY+ box on demand. I'm pretty sure the suggested price was £10.00 per month.

I've not seen anything anywhere else to back this up so we'll just have to wait and see.

So there we have it, the beginning of the end of linear TV, and even ahead of the timescale I had envisaged!

And what's not to like? Movies there when you want to watch them, no pesky ads and cheaper to boot.

Nice to see Sky keeping up, even though this arrangement will bring in less income from the advertisers.

[MutleyF]

really cannot see linear tv going anywhere OB

[Anypermitedroute]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

So there we have it, the beginning of the end of linear TV, and even ahead of the timescale I had envisaged!

And what's not to like? Movies there when you want to watch them, no pesky ads and cheaper to boot.

Nice to see Sky keeping up, even though this arrangement will bring in less income from the advertisers.

not sure the adverts would be totally going, they will stick them in front of the movie before it starts, and will prevent you fast forwarding them in the same way 4oD and ITV does on their smartphone apps

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute

not sure the adverts would be totally going, they will stick them in front of the movie before it starts, and will prevent you fast forwarding them in the same way 4oD and ITV does on their smartphone apps

No sign of this happening yet, though...

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Originally Posted by MutleyF

really cannot see linear tv going anywhere OB

Well, Sky seem to have got the message and I thought they would be one of the last broadcasters to admit defeat, given advertisement saturation on their channels.