[Merged] New channels?

[Jules]

I don't understand why people are getting upset....we are getting the new channels free, so I for one am happy to wait a extra few weeks untill they get it right

[cityboys]

bring on the horror channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bob]

I for one am getting just a little bit sick and tired of the attitude of some people on this forum. It has come to the point now where I only read the NTL or Telewest †˜helpâÃà ‚¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ sections because I am fed up of looking in the basement area of the forum and seeing how perfectly reasonable topics of conversation turn into bitter slanging matches because some people think others arenââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t allowed to have an opinion. You should not have to justify your opinions! People have vendettas against certain individuals and instead of being adult about their problems by discussing their issues in private, they post pathetic threads on the forum to stir up trouble which is absolutely appalling and total out of order. Why do people feel the need to post these attacks? Because they are not adult enough to discuss it one on one †“ they need others to help stir up the trouble.

If people are going to act like children then maybe its time we started treating them like it i.e. taking away their privileges such as participating in the basement section of the site.

I think people fail to realise what a privileged position they are in being a member of this forum. You get to know an awful lot more than the average NTL customer, who are its fair to say, are left in the dark till the very last minute in a lot of cases. It angers me that all the hard work of the Cable Forum team, forging those links with NTL are thrown back in their faces when people spit the dummy out when 11 new channels donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t launch. I would not blame the mods/admin if they never bothered to post information earlier than is necessary ever again. And I also wouldnââ‚Ã⠀šÃ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t blame NTL for not allowing them to post such information again because of the negative response from some members.

I feel that the NTL employees who take the time and effort to help people on this site are taken advantage of. They are useful to people when they help them with a problem they are having, but when they try to defend NTL they are slagged off. Labelling NTL employees †˜monkeysâà ƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã¢â€à …¾Ã‚¢ for examples is totally out of line because the majority of the staff who work for the company put 100% into their job (others more) and they should not have to defend themselves. Yes NTL arenââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t perfect, neither is Telewest (and believe me they are not), nor or Sky or any other company in the world †“ and neither is any individual. NTL were shocking, I admit as I have had run ins on many occasions, but things have certainly improved and all credit should go to staff who have helped with these changes.

What has really got to me recently is this thread about the new channels. People wonder why NTL donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t give out dates for new channels, software and VoD? Take a look at this thread. People have moaned and groaned about the new channels being delayed and how appalling NTL are that they have missed the launch date. Failing to realise that NTL themselves never did officially announce a date to any of its customers, and therefore have no reason to be sorry that they still havenââ‚ƚ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t launched. Cable Forum did us a favour by letting us know before it happened and they had the permission of NTL to do so. When you see a thread such as this, you realise how clever NTL actually are not to give specific dates. At the end of the day these are new channels that you have coped with perfectly well without for a number of months are years in a few cases, so a few more days are not going to hurt.

Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢m fed up of those people who insist on hijacking every thread to post the same complaint over and over and over as if itââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s going to make a difference. There is a perfectly good thread to post that problem, so why do persist in saying the same thing every time you post? It gets very boring and its puts people off helping you in the future. These people rarely have anything constructive to say.

The Cable Forum team do an amazing job in running such a useful forum and I think the personal attacks on certain team members should stop. Any decision made is not going to please everyone †“ and thatââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s tough! A decision is made because that mod/admin feels it was the right course of action at the time †“ and thatââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s final. And as has been said on many occasions, if you donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t like it go elsewhere!

erhaps its time that people look again at the purpose of this forum and realise that its here to help customers of NTL and Telewest in anyway it can and perhaps its time the basement area of the site is removed so focus is on helping rather than intimidating people. There is plenty of other sites out there where you can discuss the topics raised in the basement.

Thatââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s the end of my rant. I have said my bit, and as most people know I normally just get with it and let things go on and donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t get involved. But this time I felt I needed to say something and get all this off my chest.

BACK ON TOPICââ‚ƚ¬Ã‚¦

Which of these channels are people most looking forward to?

Horror

[Jules]

Horror for me as well

[Bob]

How rude I didn't tell you which one I'm most looking forward too...

E! I think

[invisibleboy]

Horror cant wait for it



hurrah for crap movies

[phaze9]

Definitely the Horror channel and maybe VH 2

[Jules]

I must admit I am more than a little curious about the gem channel

[Rillington]

Euronews. It's the only channel of these 11 which has any interest to me at all.

Originally Posted by Jules

I must admit I am more than a little curious about the gem channel

Thought you were the Gem here Jules

[Jules]

Aww that is so sweet I have come over all unnecessary now

[huxleypiguk]

Motors TV - can't wait !!!

[bayonet]

There's something up this morning in Swansea as my STB is running through an update of some sort. New channels maybe.........? Will keep you posted.

Anybody else in Swansea getting the same thing?

Internet is fine as I can post this didn't notice till I turned the telly on just got a purple screen on the cable channel other channels working ok.
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Update 10:17

Ok lads panic over just rebooted and back to normal strange though

Didn't want to reboot in case the update started all over again

No new channels BTW

[COOPERMAN]

So where are the new channels today??