General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

What sort of TV and what size screen to you have, Max? Maybe your TV was upscaling everything to near UHD already so that the difference is not so perceptible.

If you've already verified your picture settings both on the TV and the V6, you are using a good quality HDMI cable supplied by VM and your V6 is plugged into the appropriate HDMI socket on your TV, I don't know what else to suggest.

Having watched the Virgin Ultra HD channel for 10 minutes last night, the picture on my 49" Sony was astounding.

I have a 50" Panasonic LED 4K Ultra UHD TV, OB, it has just recently had a firmware update to HDR standard, I do see a difference when the football is on BT UHD, but as I said earlier, not a huge difference in other content.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

I have a 50" Panasonic LED 4K Ultra UHD TV

How far away do you sit?

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

How far away do you sit?

Approx 10 feet away, SS.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

Approx 10 feet away, SS.

Too far, if you want to get the full benefit of UHD.

TL;DR article here, but this chart summarises nicely:

[alwaysabear]

Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj

Same here OB, the picture was brilliant. Mine is a LG OLED.

I think with having a 4K tv that has upscalling capabilities, you are right. Because of the upscalling to near 4K anywhere, the different won't be as much.

It is definitely a lot clearer on the VM UHD channel though. Is the broadcast also in HDR?

Have to agree .

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Too far, if you want to get the full benefit of UHD.

TL;DR article here, but this chart summarises nicely:

So going by that chart I would need to be approx. 6 feet away to get the full benefit of 4K UHD? I'd be interested to know how many people actually sit that close to a 50" TV, it seems far too close imo.

[mot12]

Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj

I think we'll really start seeing the difference once we watch more content in UHD more of the time. Watching HD consistently you can see the clear difference between the SD picture. I think the same will happen with UHD.

Although the football on BT Sport 4K definitely looks a lot clearer and crisper than in HD.

I have to say BT Sport 4K is very good at 4K, as you say you can clearly see the difference.

Some people seem to think all 4K is equal and if it's filmed with 4K cameras then everything you watch in 4K will be of equal quality, unfortunately that isn't the case there's a lot more to it than that. The same thing obviously goes for HD.

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Talking of picture quality I'd love to see the Ultra HD version of Sky one's S.W.A.T it looks awesome on Sky One HD.

[Media Boy UK]

Media Boy sources has confirm that GOLD HD will replace GOLD SD on channel 124 on Tuesday 25th September 2018.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy sources has confirm that GOLD HD will replace GOLD SD on channel 124 on Tuesday 25th September 2018.

By sources you mean Twitter

https://twitter.com/uktv/status/1041...918715392?s=21

[Ddonald2016]

I’d love to see how virgin spin it’s better to pay separately for Netflix

For Sky Q subscribers, Ultimate On Demand will cost £10 a month, which is cheaper than the combined cost of subscribing to Netflix and Sky Box Sets separately.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

By sources you mean Twitter

https://twitter.com/uktv/status/1041...918715392?s=21

l suspect MB has more then one source.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Ddonald2016

I’d love to see how virgin spin it’s better to pay separately for Netflix

For Sky Q subscribers, Ultimate On Demand will cost £10 a month, which is cheaper than the combined cost of subscribing to Netflix and Sky Box Sets separately.

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t VM originally offer Netflix free for 6 months and have offered other promotions since. They seem ok deals to me.

[Ddonald2016]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t VM originally offer Netflix free for 6 months and have offered other promotions since. They seem ok deals to me.

But we are talking regular customers and packages not time limited deal

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Ddonald2016

I’d love to see how virgin spin it’s better to pay separately for Netflix

For Sky Q subscribers, Ultimate On Demand will cost £10 a month, which is cheaper than the combined cost of subscribing to Netflix and Sky Box Sets separately.

It's not all about price, though. It is also convenient to pay one bill rather than two.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by denphone

l suspect MB has more then one source.

mmm, Google being the other one......