Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

Not yet, we're still getting used to using some new tungsten carbide drills for the preliminary coal-face scouring operations

Cheers
Grim

LMFAO

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by denphone

Exactly.

virgin mwdia will never put smallword out of business beause they compete in different areas

[HD Boy]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

virgin mwdia will never put smallword out of business beause they compete in different areas

Virgin Media could buy Smallworld if they wanted to.

[gaz2810i]

Originally Posted by Chad

Well that's probably the craziest post on this thread for 2011. A list of channels that someone wants Virgin to get, but they don't actually intend to watch all of them.

Can you imagine how much your monthly subscription would jump if Virgin secured carriage deals with all those channels? Everyone from M+, L and XL would have to pay an extra £15.00 per month for their TV package. Personally I'd like Virgin to continue securing deals with popular channels, and content providers, to make sure we're getting the best value for money. I'd like Virgin to speed up a little when negotiating but other than that I can't really complain too much.

Why? Sky offer most of these and there subs are on Par with Virgin, If sky can offer these why can't Virgin

[pythagoras]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

My parents have been having lots of problems with their OD and 20mb BB , they rang and were told there area was having some essential upgrades. They received a letter through the door today saying their services would be down for 4 hours , VM techs were working on the green cab down the road , when finished the green cab was painted grey as were a few others in the area. What are these upgrades ?

Do your parents live near me by any chance? Near Mornington road school.

Regards

John.

[HD Boy]

Originally Posted by gaz2810i

Why? Sky offer most of these and there subs are on Par with Virgin, If sky can offer these why can't Virgin

A new channel has to pay SKY to get on the EPG slot whilst Virgin Media have to actually pay the new channel to join the EPG slot.

[gaz2810i]

Originally Posted by HD Boy

I disagree. Have you bothered to read the other posts or do just moan about some of the crap channels virgin media does not have ?

Originally Posted by HD Boy

There is nothing new in that article.

Hypocrite posts of the year, maybe the century

Let's calm down, everybody.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by gaz2810i

Hypocrite posts of the year, maybe the century

Do as i did and put the master spammer on ignore then you don't have to read all of his spam

[steveh]

Originally Posted by Stephen

They are not a waste of bandwidth at all. They come in very handy. For example I may have forgotten to watch a program I was interested in and can then watch it an hour later. Or I may have forgotten to set a program to record and can see it a bit later.

What would be even better is if Virgin brought in the 'watch from the beginning' VOD feature some of the US cable networks have. If you've missed the start of a programme you can hit a button to start it from the beginning even as the programme is still going out.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by steveh

What would be even better is if Virgin brought in the 'watch from the beginning' VOD feature some of the US cable networks have. If you've missed the start of a programme you can hit a button to start it from the beginning even as the programme is still going out.

That would be dependent on the rights holders agreeing to it.

However I don't think even the BBC put the iPlayer version of a programme up online on their own site until it's finished broadcasting, so can't see them doing it for Virgin Media

[steveh]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

However I don't think even the BBC put the iPlayer version of a programme up online on their own site until it's finished broadcasting, so can't see them doing it for Virgin Media

From what I understand it's more akin to a PVR on each channel at the local headend, storing a rolling buffer from the live stream from which users can then wind back to the start of a show. And only on channels where the rights have been agreed to use the tech.

[BenMcr]

You'd need a lot more VoD stream capacity to be able to do that I think

[VirginMediaPhil]

Originally Posted by HD Boy

Virgin Media could buy Smallworld if they wanted to.

They can't because then they would have too much control over cable TV in the UK legally. The merger wouldn't be approved.

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

You'd need a lot more VoD stream capacity to be able to do that I think

Also because many shows start early over here you'd probably miss the first minute or two anyway (if it is automatic)

[HD Boy]

Originally Posted by VirginMediaPhil

They can't because then they would have too much control over cable TV in the UK legally. The merger wouldn't be approved.

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