Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II

[one2escape]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Virgin Media will be announcing its Second Quarter 2010 results on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 7am.

Are we expecting any surprises here like a launch date for TIVO or more HD channels?

[piquet41]

Sky Movies Classics HD launches Aug 9th on Sky, hopefully on VM too as we have all sky movies channels now in HD.

[1701-e]

Originally Posted by one2escape

Are we expecting any surprises here like a launch date for TIVO or more HD channels?

Tivo within 6 months?

"We continue to work with TiVo to develop and launch a new converged TV and broadband interactive platform in the fourth quarter. "
from latest results- the second quarter

[chris9991]

Originally Posted by masefield

Not quite sure where to place this on the Boards - however please refer to the enclosed extract from the latest quarter results - seems tp provide a guide as to the future.

Bringing 'Digital Entertainment' into homes
We grew our digital TV base by 25,900 in the quarter to over 3.7m customers. These viewers continue to enjoy our
market-leading video-on-demand (VOD) service with well over half of them using and watching VOD as part of their
everyday lives.
We are also continuing to aggressively expand our High Definition (HD) offering. A year ago, we carried one HD
channel, but this will increase to a total of 26 channels in the next few weeks. We have announced the August launch for
Sky Sports 1 and 2 HD and ten Sky Movies HD channels and we expect to continue to increase the number of HD channels. As
a result, our HD base is growing rapidly and we added a record 259,000 customers in the quarter to reach an installed
base of 1.2m.
Through our agreements with BSkyB, we have also secured long-term carriage of the Sky Basic channels and the former
VMtv channels, along with access to interactive red button sports coverage and the opportunity to deliver selected Sky
standard definition programming over the internet. We continue to work with TiVo to develop and launch a new converged TV and broadband interactive platform in the
fourth quarter.

(From Masefield VIrginmedia Quarter Results thread)

As highlighted it says ten HD movie channels but I can only count nine without the Classics - have I missed one?

[piquet41]

Originally Posted by chris9991

(From Masefield VIrginmedia Quarter Results thread)

As highlighted it says ten HD movie channels but I can only count nine without the Classics - have I missed one?

Yes chris9991 you have. here they are;

1. SKY MOVIES PREMIERE - CH 431
2. SHOWCASE - CH 433
3. COMEDY - CH 434
4. ACTION/ACVENTURE - CH 435
5. FAMILY - CH 436
6. CRIME/THRILLER - CH 437
7. DRAMA/ROMANCE - CH 438
8. SCI-FI/HORROR - CH 439
9. MODERN GREATS - CH 440
10. INDIE - CH 442

So Sky Movies Classics HD could, i suppose go on CH 441?

[chris9991]

Cheers for that - missed out Premiere

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by Joedm45

Can someone please tell me why all the fuss about Sky Sports News HD?

For most of the day its just 2 people talking and loads of adverts. Don't get me wrong, I do watch SSN from time to time but mainly as background noise while doing something else.

Unless they are drastically changing the format then there is little point having it in HD

Soon you'll be able to do the ironing in HD!

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Originally Posted by John Logie Baird

BBC One HD ident revealed

http://gonedigital.net/2010/05/28/bb...dent-revealed/

Originally Posted by windy

Yeah old news.

Well John Logie Baird's television technology is rather old!

My mother met Baird once in a hotel in Clifden, Galway, Ireland when he was visiting the Marconi transmitter site there.

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

Jul. 13th. FIVE HD has launched on Virgin Channel 150 in the M Pack.
Jul. 13th. Fiver has been moved from Virgin Channel 152 to Channel 151.
Jul. 13th. Fiver +1 has launched on Virgin Channel 152.
Jul. 13th. Five USA has been moved from Virgin Channel 150 to Channel 153.
Jul. 13th. Five USA +1 has launched on Virgin Channel 154.

But where is the elusive Five +1?

[Kingofthedead4]

Virgin Media has reported its best ever second quarter results, after adding 9,100 new households to its cable subscription base as revenue reached £964m.

In its financial results for the three months to June 30, Virgin Media beat analyst expectations by actually adding subscribers in Q2 for the first time in over four years.

The cable operator attracted 9,100 new households over the three months, compared to a 27,800 customer loss in the same period a year ago. The strong performance helped Virgin Media to increase its overall revenue by 7.1% to £964m, with growth in all areas, including the mobile business.

Broadband growth was five times that experienced last year, with 28,100 net new customers added over the quarter. Virgin said that 43% of its broadband subscribers now take packages of 20Mbps or 50Mbps.

The company also added 22,300 net new digital television customers, although 3,600 analogue customers were disconnected in line with Virgin Media's plans. More than half of Virgin Media TV customers also regularly use its video on demand platform.

Virgin Media recently announced plans to offer high-definition versions of Sky Sports 1 and 2 on its cable TV platform, along with ten HD variants of the Sky Movies channels.

Over the second quarter, the firm added 295,000 new HD customers - up 79% year on year - to bring its total base to 1.2 million.

The Virgin Mobile business pulled in 66,300 net new customers, with revenue increasing 6.9%. Customers taking a triple-play service of TV, broadband and landline increased to 62.4% and quad-play subscribers (who also take a mobile service) grew to 11.3%.

Churn remained flat at 1.3% and average revenue per user (ARPU) was up 4.9% to a record £45.88.

The company said the operating cashflow was up 12.9% to £370m, representing the third successive quarterly double-digit OCF growth.

After running a successful refinancing programme of its debt, Virgin Media said that it plans to return £700m to shareholders and debt holders.

"A growing base of customers, combined with increased ARPU and improvements in business and mobile revenues, drove strong revenue growth and a double digit year-on-year percentage increase in OCF for the third successive quarter," said Virgin Media chief executive Neil Berkett.

"This performance was driven by our ability to offer households and businesses an increasingly differentiated range of digital services. Going forward, we'll continue to differentiate our propositions by proactively exploiting the advantages of our network and our mobile capability.

"Confidence in our long term ability to deliver strong free cash flow, along with the recent completion of our refinancing, enables us to announce today an initial Capital Return programme that complements our existing debt reduction schedule, without compromising our ability to make further strategic investments in the business."

Virgin Media has also confirmed plans to launch its 100Mbps broadband service by the end of the year, along with its first set top boxes enabled with technology developed by US DVR giant TiVo.

The firm has further announced a trial of aerial broadband deployment via existing electricity poles in the Welsh village of Crumlin as it looks at more ways to expand its fibre network.

(digital Spy)

Interesting about TIVO and 100Meg Broadband.

[DJ-SWITCH]

Not alot going on are this week got me new TV smart card today for both boxes so all good there

[i love virgin]

Any plans for Rush HD?

[Ben B]

Any plans for Virgin iD HD?

Or PIN Protection help HD, that would be a deal breaker for me

[mattboothers]

I would love 'bid up dot drop dot price drop tv hd bid' in hd

[devilincarnate]

I know what is coming soon to virgin media?

Spoiler: 

SOME NEW CHANNELS & TIVO

[JayAy]

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

I know what is coming soon to virgin media?

Spoiler: 

SOME NEW CHANNELS & TIVO

Please cite all sources to back up this wild claim

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by i love virgin

Any plans for Rush HD?

No idea.

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Originally Posted by Ben B

Any plans for Virgin iD HD?

Or PIN Protection help HD, that would be a deal breaker for me

You forgot -

Spoiler: 

Media Boy HD

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Originally Posted by mattb00thers

I would love 'bid up dot drop dot price drop tv hd bid' in hd

Maybe - I have seen rumoured that QVC HD is set to launch in the UK.