General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

That looks familiar https://virgintvgo.virginmedia.com/en.html

Originally Posted by denphone

Indeed it looks very familiar from my untrained eye..

Oops. Never even seen VM's go service. I'll try again.

This is Liberty's crappy Horizon 4 promo:

https://vimeo.com/290256441

But to get a real feel for how the interface works, espcially the voice control, then try this, but unfortunately not in English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_0wKkLJGww

More foreign links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLlputs2qSw (Dutch Ziggo service comparison between Horizon 3 and 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL-2YDra2l8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWFkC9UR7Qw

[cheekyangus]

Haven't had a chance to watch the two you added later at the bottom, and it's a shame I don't understand what is being said. I had seen photos before but I thought they had distorted the box...but it is a thinner and wider version of the V6 design.

The interface looked slick in the video I have had a chance to watch, but I can't say I was particularly impressed. Seemed slickness for slickness sake rather than intuitive/logical.

[Horizon]

Yep, it's pretty much the V6 box but with the hard drive removed. Somebody yesterday said there would be a new box, but I'm sure the V6 will be Horizon 4 compatible. And yes the interface looks slick.

On one of the links is a Dutch comparison between the old Horizon 3 box and interface and the new one, it's worth watching too.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

Question is, if it is closing, will Sony use the space for another channel on Virgin Media? There are a few +1s of theirs they could use the stream for on VM.

Look unlikey Media Boy HQ think Virgin did sign an new deal with Sony last year when True Entertainment +1 launched on July 21st 2018.

[fox35]

Originally Posted by Horizon

Yep, it's pretty much the V6 box but with the hard drive removed. Somebody yesterday said there would be a new box, but I'm sure the V6 will be Horizon 4 compatible. And yes the interface looks slick.

On one of the links is a Dutch comparison between the old Horizon 3 box and interface and the new one, it's worth watching too.

Found this video with a guy separating the 2 halves of the V6 box (which I am not condoning).
Essentially its is 2 boxes in one!, the top half appears to be very similar to Liberty's Horizon 4 box which would connect to the cloud for recorded content and the bottom connected half only contains the hard drive for use by current UK V6 customers.
Watch from 2min 10 secs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isteKO4zxI

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by newapollo

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/asse...rgin-media.pdf

About the Horizon platform



Product launch timeline



This is a partial response to an Ofcom Initiative which includes Sky, Freeview, BT etc to make the user experience for disabled customers simpler.

Thank you, newapollo; I was not too far out then!

[cheekyangus]

Given some people just want cable TV and not broadband, I wonder whether VM will create a version with a modem so that they can eventually phase out their original Tivos, which are only being kept around for that purpose.

[Horizon]

Good find fox35.

So the V6 is exactly the same as Liberty's other Horizon 4 boxes, just they've added the hard drive as a extra while VM use tivo. Clever.

---------- Post added at 18:50 ---------- Previous post was at 18:47 ----------

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

Given some people just want cable TV and not broadband, I wonder whether VM will create a version with a modem so that they can eventually phase out their original Tivos, which are only being kept around for that purpose.

It doesn't look like as all the equipment has been standardised with the Connect box (superhub3) being the router/modem box.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Look unlikey Media Boy HQ think Virgin did sign an new deal with Sony last year when True Entertainment +1 launched on July 21st 2018.

That would be more likely if Sony launched a new channel. That deal would have included True Crime which is no longer going to be provided, so a replacement, especially an existing channel could be slotted in to hold up Sony's end of the deal e.g. if it was for X number of channels.

I can see True Entertainment+1 moving up to 212 in place of True Crime if nothing else. Given VM has had the pop-up channel Pop Power in the past I can see Pop Max filling the gap (though obviously not the EPG position).

[Horizon]

And very good find, new apollo.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

I can't tell what this is, maybe a disguised new service rather than a move within the network, but there are new HD streams on multiplex/stream alongside Premier Sports 2 HD now.

One is an HD stream and the screengrab has a VM Love logo from its promo reel.
The other is an HD stream with a Sky Cinema logo on its screengrab.

Showing on Tsid13/C047 on Digital Bit Rate website.

Media Boy Investigation: Up to SEVEN new HD Channels set to launch????

Media Boy HQ has just seen on DBR and one of your reported HD Channel is using SID 1302. But the other one of your reported HD Channel is using SID 1308.

[jfman]

It’s been known for a while the V6 and Horizon share the same hardware.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy Investigation: Up to SEVEN new HD Channels set to launch????

Media Boy HQ has just seen on DBR and one of your reported HD Channel is using SID 1302. But the other one of your reported HD Channel is using SID 1308.

Interesting MB.

[Horizon]

Wimbledon is almost here, perhaps that's the HD channels??

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Horizon

Wimbledon is almost here, perhaps that's the HD channels??

More BBC Red Button Channels are testing right now for that.

One HD Channel and Five SD Channels will appear from Channel 990 to 996 later this week.