Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
18-07-2019, 09:07
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The BBC is reported to have worked out how to resolve the latency issues with streaming.
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The article I read was more that they had developed a way to greatly improve the situation, I wasn't under the impression that they had resolved it, there would be bigger headlines if it had been resolved.
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18-07-2019, 09:43
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by jfman
What's an Amazon app on the V6 got to do with the economic viability (or otherwise?) of a streaming platform? An Amazon app on Virgin was literally a 50/50 guess. Unless Virgin start funding it, or Amazon start doing promos for Virgin customers, it's an economic zero net effect.
It's a quick win for Virgin's PR team to say you can watch all the football on a V6 box at Christmas*.
*seperate subscription to Amazon Prime required.
And lose access to up to 11 million set top boxes. I can see why you aren't good at this economics thing.
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If I remember correctly, you were arguing that Amazon on the V6 was of no economic benefit to Virgin. A quick win for Virgin? On thet we are agreed.
Virgin can still make a case for having their boxes even without the linear channels.
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18-07-2019, 09:50
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
The article I read was more that they had developed a way to greatly improve the situation, I wasn't under the impression that they had resolved it, there would be bigger headlines if it had been resolved.
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My friend is a Technical Architect with the BBC - they don’t have a solution (yet).
Here’s the article
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2018-0...ideo-streaming
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we can show what is possible in terms of low latency distribution, though it’s fair to say that some additional delay is likely to return here if we were to take our prototype and scale it up for full production use.
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Last edited by Hugh; 18-07-2019 at 09:53.
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18-07-2019, 09:54
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by Hugh
My friend is a Technical Architect with the BBC - they don’t have a solution (yet).
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I posted an article a little while ago indicating that the Beeb knew how to resolve this and it seemed to indicate that it would not take that long to sort this out. Maybe that article was a little on the optimistic side.
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18-07-2019, 09:55
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
The article I read was more that they had developed a way to greatly improve the situation, I wasn't under the impression that they had resolved it, there would be bigger headlines if it had been resolved.
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Indeed, it's on their own website:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45499784
Although I had thought that currently the BBC are focused on getting Ultra HD lag down to the same levels as their normal streaming services, rather than any total fix against broadcast
But then there is already differences between Freeview, cable and satellite delivery, so it's not like a streaming lag is unique.
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Last edited by BenMcr; 18-07-2019 at 10:00.
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18-07-2019, 09:57
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
The V6 will be dead and buried with the old Pace boxes by the time there's no linear channels.
I still don't expect Virgin to see greater sales from this, but if it costs next to nothing it's harmless.
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18-07-2019, 11:13
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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18-07-2019, 11:22
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Excellent that UHD content is going to be available to Virgin for the first time.
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18-07-2019, 11:29
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
it great we be getting sport and movies in UHD but look like I was right about VM never getting SA sadly
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18-07-2019, 11:29
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
E! is going HD.
From 1/8/19 Comedy Central +1 (ROI) will be closing.
Last edited by RichardCoulter; 18-07-2019 at 11:39.
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18-07-2019, 11:39
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by Dave42
it great we be getting sport and movies in UHD but look like I was right about VM never getting SA sadly
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Don't tell OB that Dave. 
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18-07-2019, 11:59
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
Time to keep an eye out for Now TV deals.
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18-07-2019, 12:12
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
The wording doesn't really say it, but could the wording be interpreted as the Comcast channels being HD swapped out?
https://www.virginmedia.com/corporat...d-the-industry
In other news, Discovery is reorganising their EPG numbers on Sky, something similar could be coming soon to VM. The short version is Good Food is being booted to the bottom and everything else is being moved up to next highest. Obviously VM is divided into categories more the Sky so they might do nothing on VM. Reading between the lines this could also mean Good Food is being closed.
https://www.rxtvlog.com/2019/07/disc...ls-on-sky.html
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18-07-2019, 12:48
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by Dave42
it great we be getting sport and movies in UHD but look like I was right about VM never getting SA sadly
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Ah, well, time to give up on that one, I guess. I will have to keep my Roku stick after all.
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18-07-2019, 12:55
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
Does this new deal mean the remaining basic channels like Pick +1, Sky1 +1, Sky Racing HD will arrive with E! HD?
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