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

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

They will may have to if you want more content

We haven't been told of any price rises, though.

As ever you get what you pay for DF, we can't moan if VM up their prices to reflect their costs for enhanced content.

Some people will probably still moan though!

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Neil Berkett on competition with Sky

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...and-speed.html

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Dont expect TIVO soon

Superior it may be, but the high speeds are just an enabler. What is "game-changing", says Berkett, is Virgin Media's new internet-enabled cable TV box, which will be available to all of its cable TV customers in a few months.

Mainly concentrating on Broadband

Berkett's world is distinctly less Hollywood. Today's Virgin Media is all about the digital experience and Berkett often points to Virgin's advantage over BSkyB and BT in "connectivity", his way of describing the benefits of super-fast broadband.

Originally Posted by passingbat

You didn't post the full quote.



It indicates that the TIVO will be available to premium customers sooner. It actually says we should have it now, but i gues he's refering to the Staff who currently have it.

As has already been pointed out here in the TiVo thread, these are not quotes from Neil but mis-interpretations by the journalist. It's not a very well researched piece IMHO.

Neil sees VM's future as a supplier of fully integrated TV, broadband and other digital media. It's not just about faster broadband for web access but using that technology to deliver the other services, such as enhanced TV, as well as mobile broadband and mobile TV.

You don't have to want it all or have it all but the aim is to provide the mechanism to deliver it all via a common infrastructure.

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by mersey70

As ever you get what you pay for DF, we can't moan if VM up their prices to reflect their costs for enhanced content.

Some people will probably still moan though!

I'm sure they will

[mattboothers]

Im a loyal Virgin Media customer and has been since it was cable & Wireless. However today I had my first proper discussion about a possible move to Sky today with the family. We have'nt discussed this matter before.

I know with Sky there are call-out charges but that is the only thing keeping me with Virgin Media at the moment. And if there will be another price increase on virgin media since they are over £5 billion in debt i wont be best pleased and may consider a quicker switch than expected!

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by LexDiamond

They aren't actually withholding the content of SS3 and 4. They are just withholding access to the HD channel. In the long term I would have thought they wouldn't withhold HD as eventually it will just become the norm.

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Thanks for this, Howardmicks

I know from a presentation I've seen today, that VM are very interested in TV. Things are going to get even better for customers.

I'm getting TIVO from launch and am looking forward to some new content as well. Hope TIVO doesn't launch region by region though.

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Originally Posted by mersey70

As ever you get what you pay for DF, we can't moan if VM up their prices to reflect their costs for enhanced content.

Some people will probably still moan though!

Prices always go up anyway , when did Sky or Virgin last drop TV prices.

Originally Posted by mattboothers

Im a loyal Virgin Media customer and has been since it was cable & Wireless. However today I had my first proper discussion about a possible move to Sky today with the family. We have'nt discussed this matter before.

I know with Sky there are call-out charges but that is the only thing keeping me with Virgin Media at the moment. And if there will be another price increase on virgin media since they are over £5 billion in debt i wont be best pleased and may consider a quicker switch than expected!

Virgin usually increase there prices around April. Sky usually increase their prices around September. Sky will charge you more for HD.
Maybe freesat is your best option?

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by howardmicks

I have emailed mr berkett`s office regarding the guardian article in the hope that he as been misquoted and more for reasurrance,I have emailed his office in the past and have found them very helpfull.Here`s hoping they are still the same

I really wish you hadn't done that, SquarePants. It was a Telegraph article!

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Thanks for this, Howardmicks

I know from a presentation I've seen today, that VM are very interested in TV. Things are going to get even better for customers.

Not a problem,I have found when emailing mr Berkett`s office in the past they are very quick to respond and only to happy to deal/hear from us customers.That as got to be praised and very different from another company which i wont mention but im sure you all know who i am talking about

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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

I really wish you hadn't done that, SquarePants. It was a Telegraph article!

yer i know,got my papers mixed up.Soz for that folks

[muppetman11]

Spiderplants link earlier stated VM hope to have 80 HD channels in two to three years so there will be more to come.

[alwaysabear]

Originally Posted by howardmicks

Not a problem,I have found when emailing mr Berkett`s office in the past they are very quick to respond and only to happy to deal/hear from us customers.That as got to be praised and very different from another company which i wont mention but im sure you all know who i am talking about

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yer i know,got my papers mixed up.Soz for that folks

I would have to agree his office has always replied and been as helpful as they can.
I just wish we did not have to bother them with these questions, a simple update via a press release or email to customers would be helpful.

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by mattboothers

You forgot to mension we dont get Sky Sports HD 3 and 4 and News HD

Name any non-Sky platform who have access to those channels.

Sky know that the content-gap between them and Virgin has closed up big time. Hence Sky exclusives like the remaining Sky Sports HD channels and Sky Atlantic. Even Sky have knowledged that Virgin's TV service has improved:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/3736...-tivo-you-suck

[Sky’s director of TV Product Development, Brian Lenz] does believe that Virgin Media has “upped their game”, and that their “TV product has improved”.

At least we get SS3, SS4 and SSN - BT Vision, Top-Up TV and YouView don't and won't.

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by mattboothers

Im a loyal Virgin Media customer and has been since it was cable & Wireless. However today I had my first proper discussion about a possible move to Sky today with the family. We have'nt discussed this matter before.

I know with Sky there are call-out charges but that is the only thing keeping me with Virgin Media at the moment. And if there will be another price increase on virgin media since they are over £5 billion in debt i wont be best pleased and may consider a quicker switch than expected!

Being completely unbiased I know of nothing to suggest Sky's equipment is any less (or more) reliable than VM's.

My Dad has Sky and has for many years and as far as I know he has never required a tech visit for the TV side, he has had a few problems with the phoneline but nothing out of the ordinary although they could have sorted things out faster.

On the other side of the coin I have never required a tech visit for a personal fault with VM in the 13 months I have been a customer either.

[muppetman11]

My Samsung V+ has been pretty good overall.

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by Henkesghost

Great post mersey70

The only part I disagree with is that obviously the people supposedly in the know post what's "coming soon" in good faith generally are proved to be completely inaccurate. This frustrates people couplef with the fact that virgin tell us nothing about improvements on the tv side Looks like Sky and Virgin will specialise in different areas. Just don't understand why some on here seem to have this blind you cannot criticise virgin, sky are evil mentality, it's both childish and pathetic IMHO.

Personally, I find that to be a gross exaggeration and a distortion of reality. Yes, quite often, in the past, people have posted their own opinions or postulated theories but phrased them as though they were fact or at least in a way that some others interpreted them as such. This hasn't been happening so much recently thankfully.

Those members who have offered genuine inside information have generally been reliable in what they post or cautious about how they post it. What others do with the information after that is usually where the problems arise! In the few cases where information has proved not to be accurate or the 'prediction' has materialised later than forecast, the difference in outcome or delivery time has usually been small.

Originally Posted by mersey70

In fairness most things that don't happen at all were merely rumours from people who are not staff, that seems to have died down in the last few months. What has been announced by VM will happen, when though I don't know. I certainly agree that some people can be very biased where VM and Sky are concerned. I don't get that myself as they are both merely service providers, much like utility companies in my eyes. I personally couldn't care less who provides my services so long as I get what I want at the right price which right now is VM. If I held stock in either I might have a different view but I dont, if I was staff I might have a different view but i'm not.

If we accept VM for what they are it would be better but VM are not Sky and never will be, Mr Berkett seems to get that and the same applies the other way around. There's pluses and minuses on both sides

Those are some of the very reasons one does care who provides their services be it gas, electricity, telephone, mobile, broadband or TV. So it's a little redundant to say I don't care who supplies my services as long as I have chosen the correct supplier for me.

I've seen that "I don't care who" statement several times before on here and I think it was from different people not just from you but, of course, you do care where you get your services from for the very reasons you have stated yourself and on which basis you choose from where you get them.

It's like saying "I don't care which brand of petrol I buy as long as it's the cheapest in my area, it doesn't cause my engine to knock, I get my loyalty card points and they stock my favourite pasty in the forecourt shop". Those criteria pretty much dictate exactly where you will purchase your fuel especially with the 'value added' pasty feature! (Let's refer to that as 'pasty-on-demand' shall we? ) The petrol from different stations in an area generally comes from the same depot and is produced by one oil company but the additives that the tanker driver puts in when he fills up are where the difference usually shows.

I used to work in the BP building in Hemel Hempstead. You should have seen what my desk looked like when the Buncefield depot across the road when kaboom!

[frogstamper]

It seems to me that the majority of people were quite happy when VM added nearly 30HD channels recently...I really can't understand claims of VM's TV service is crap and that VM don't care about TV anymore.
It appears to me that this sudden displeasure has been mainly sparked off by Sky keeping Atlantic as an exclusive... initially!! Surely people don't change their TV suppliers on the strength of one channel? especially when VM will have that channel in a few months.