General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Dave42

would be very surprised if anything happens today John

Agree bud,unfortunately I was right with my predictions yesterday and I predict nothing is gonna happen at least this week anyway

[ottoni]

I suppose all of this is getting Virgin in the news, be it for good or bad reasons!

I myself am not really interested in football, but I think as a minimum it should be available to buy like on Sky.

[Clarence]

Just been on to retentions. They have told me they are very frustrated also, and that we can all cancel our TV contracts due to the loss of ESPN. No attempt whatsoever to try and keep the business... I got the feeling they've just given up as there is nothing they can say to assuage the way in which their senior management have behaved on this.

[young_timbo]

Originally Posted by thegrid

I've gotta admit, it is a good sign. Just going to have to play the waiting game now.

What's a good sign? huh, wut!? Did I miss something?? All I saw was a moderator on £6.50ph speculating that things sometimes go down to the wire. Any one of us could of written that. And obviously there are going down to the wire as the channel's already started! we're past the wire, and on the other side of the wire now. the wire is behind us. look behind you, and there's a bloody great big wire in the background.

Yes let's play the waiting game. Cos none of us have been waiting up until now, let's all start to wait and see what happens.

[joglynne]

1 Aug 2013 ... Virgin Media TV On Demand brings Sesame Street to UK homes.

Virgin Media has announced it is bringing the beloved children’s series Sesame Street to the UK through its On Demand to all Virgin Media XL TV customers from today. Selected episodes from seasons 36 to 43 are now available on Virgin TV On Demand, as well as online with Virgin TV Anywhere.

http://mediacentre.virginmedia.com/S...omes-2489.aspx

[ChrisB74]

If we don't get BT Sport I just hope that the money remaining from the loss of ESPN [let's say £9.99 per month in XL price] is used to pay for the following and then VM will be loved once more!

-CI HD
-CI +1
-HISTORY HD
-Sky News HD
-Sky Sports News HD
-More 4 HD
-Disney Channel HD
-Disney Junior +
-Disney Junior HD
-Disney XD HD
-FOX +1
-MGM HD
-Nat Wild HD
-E! HD
-Universal Channel HD

[and if Sky are feeling like ganging up on BT]
-Sky Atlantic
-Sky Atlantic +1
-Sky Atlantic HD
-Sky Sports F1 HD
-Sky Sports 3 HD
-Sky Sports 4 HD

[johnasimmons]

Originally Posted by ottoni

What a complete and utter mess all of this bt sport fiasco is causing!!, haven't posted on here in almost a year have been on the dark side! but I am coming back..............possibly.

Scanned for any new channels through my dvb-c samsung tv and only found 2 channels testing on tuesday 30/7, it didn't say what they were just 'hidden'

So, things have changed quite a bit in nearly 12 months, but I see Virgin's stupid games haven't.

Sky atlantic should be here by now at least in SD, and well, bt sports what do we expect?

With the 2 'hidden' channels and the four freed by ESPN going that is 6 channels...

[young_timbo]

let's all wait and see what happens. all we can do now, is play the waiting game.



"Look, BT Sport has just arrived on Virgin!!!"

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Clarence

Just been on to retentions. They have told me they are very frustrated also, and that we can all cancel our TV contracts due to the loss of ESPN. No attempt whatsoever to try and keep the business... I got the feeling they've just given up as there is nothing they can say to assuage the way in which their senior management have behaved on this.

Seriously is that true,I'm gonna ring them again if that's the case.still got a great deal off sky on the table

[thegrid]

Originally Posted by young_timbo

What's a good sign? huh, wut!? Did I miss something?? All I saw was a moderator on £6.50ph speculating that things sometimes go down to the wire. Any one of us could of written that. And obviously there are going down to the wire as the channel's already started! we're past the wire, and on the other side of the wire now. the wire is behind us. look behind you, and there's a bloody great big wire in the background.

Yes let's play the waiting game. Cos none of us have been waiting up until now, let's all start to wait and see what happens.

It's all about patience. And his payscale doesn't make any difference. Atleast they're taking the time to update us no-matter how small. I think the wire they're referring to is the first day of the premier league on August 17.

[Doug P]

Anyone from VM like to comment? That post by Clarence indicates a very off message member of customer services...

[ottoni]

Originally Posted by young_timbo

What's a good sign? huh, wut!? Did I miss something?? All I saw was a moderator on £6.50ph speculating that things sometimes go down to the wire. Any one of us could of written that. And obviously there are going down to the wire as the channel's already started! we're past the wire, and on the other side of the wire now. the wire is behind us. look behind you, and there's a bloody great big wire in the background.

Yes let's play the waiting game. Cos none of us have been waiting up until now, let's all start to wait and see what happens.

Lets look at it from both sides, BT have got this brand new product and has come into this with all the bells and whistles going and it has, of course got peoples attention. They want primarily to use this to get new phone and broadband customers, but if it steals some virgin and Sky customers, all the better great PR for BT.

Virgin on the other hand have dug a bit of a hole for themselves. They have now become associated with giving football away as 'free' with tv xl from when it was Setanta and then ESPN. Virgin now want it again with BT and of course BT are playing hardball. They will both end up losing, virgin would have eroded themselves the value of their top tier tv package if they can't get it, and BT will have to explain to shareholders why a potential 4-5 million extra viewers can't see their tv channels.

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by ChrisB74

If we don't get BT Sport I just hope that the money remaining from the loss of ESPN [let's say £9.99 per month in XL price] is used to pay for the following and then VM will be loved once more!

-CI HD
-CI +1
-HISTORY HD
-Sky News HD
-Sky Sports News HD
-More 4 HD
-Disney Channel HD
-Disney Junior +
-Disney Junior HD
-Disney XD HD
-FOX +1
-MGM HD
-Nat Wild HD
-E! HD
-Universal Channel HD

[and if Sky are feeling like ganging up on BT]
-Sky Atlantic
-Sky Atlantic +1
-Sky Atlantic HD
-Sky Sports F1 HD
-Sky Sports 3 HD
-Sky Sports 4 HD

The money there saving from not paying espn is going nowhere other than gathering interest to end up in shareholders back pockets

Originally Posted by ChrisB74

If we don't get BT Sport I just hope that the money remaining from the loss of ESPN [let's say £9.99 per month in XL price]

Lets say 30p.

[howardmicks]

30 p off 4 million customers is a lot bud