General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

Thanks for confirmation. I saw conflicting information and vaguely remembered seeing a headline a while ago, so I decided to go for the one that had definitely owned them at some point.

We now know what channels Virgin Media have still to move over to MPEG4. It way over 50+ channels.
Channels still to move over to MPEG4 on Virgin Media UK - Last update 18/03/2019 at 17:00:

ABN TV,
Vice,
A+E Channels,
BBC,
Clubland TV,
NBC,
Sky Sports,
Al Jazeera,
Viacom,
Jewellery Maker,
Sky Events (Sky Box Office),
Live Events Channel (Channel 0 on V+ Boxes),
Discovery,
God Channel,
Islam Channel Urdu,
NBCUniversal Channels,
CNBC,
B4U,
Gems TV,
PBS,
Sky Cinema,
UKTV +1 Channels,
NDTV (Not News channels),
Colors (All three channels),
QVC Beauty,
Star Bharat,
ALL Adult Nightly Channels,
Pop Power,
Love Nature,
Sky Witness +1,
Turner (Movies and Cartoon channels),
FOX and FOX +1,
Channel 4 Music Channels,
&TV,
ITV Be,
ITV2,
ITV4,
Channel 4 Audio Desc,
More 4 +1,
Film4,
Film4 +1,
CNN,
Sky Witness,
Liverpool TV,
4Seven,
Baby TV,
ITV2 +1,
ITVBe +1,
All MTV Channels,
BET,
Disney Channels,
Horse & Country,
Box Nation,
SONY SAB,
Sony Crime Channel,
QVC Style,
National Geographic channels,
MUTV,
Virgin Media Information channels and all the Red button channels.

PM us and we will give you the list in full.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by nodrogd

Don’t know if it is still the case, but the BBC used to block some sports programmes with rights issues from being viewed outside Scotland. The existence of 2 BBC Scotland versions, one intended for Scotland & the other for elsewhere would therefore make sense.

S4C also shows a lot of Welsh commentary sports that another channel may have rights to.

That sounds very plausible. Good idea.

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Media Boy, what has listing channels still to move to MPEG4 on VM got to do with me thanking another user for telling me who now owns Chart Show TV? I don't understand why you quoted me on that.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

Media Boy, what has listing channels still to move to MPEG4 on VM got to do with me thanking another user for telling me who now owns Chart Show TV? I don't understand why you quoted me on that.

I do not know why I did that - sorry about that.

Just 100% confirm that Virgin are set to move the following channels to MPEG4 soon:

-CBS Reality
-horror channel
-horror channel +1
-CBS Reality +1
-Islam Channel English
-S4C AD

As first found by you on Saturday.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Project 1 and Project 2 has been testing on that stream since last summer (Broadcasting Pick and Challenge). They was said at the time to be testing for the launch of Eleven Sports 1 and Eleven Sports 2.

But Eleven Sports 1 and Eleven Sports 2 was remove from testing an week later.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Media Boy

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

-CBS Reality
-horror channel
-horror channel +1
-CBS Reality +1
-Islam Channel English
-S4C Audio Desc.

Look Virgin Media are set to move to the new stream and broadcasting in MPEG4.

http://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.ph...ng=en&mux=C066

I've only been looking at the DigitalBitRate website for the last 2-3 weeks, so I'm fairly new to making sense of the tables. I had read it prior to responding there and I saw there were only the original MPEG2 versions which was why I was curious why it was suggested they were new versions, my searches of the multiplex tables using the browser's Find In Page tool found only the original versions.

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

I do not know why I did that - sorry about that.

Just 100% confirm that Virgin are set to move the following channels to MPEG4 soon:

-CBS Reality
-horror channel
-horror channel +1
-CBS Reality +1
-Islam Channel English
-S4C AD

As first found by you on Saturday.

Ah. I didn't realise you were saying the 6 I found were those you listed.

Clearly I need more coffee.

Thanks.

[garethf1927]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

Oddly there is a similar HD duplication for the new BBC Scotland Channel.

Its on 108 in Scotland and 162 everywhere else so maybe that's why?

[Media Boy UK]

UPDATE:

CBS Reality, Horror Channel and Horror Channel +1 want over to MPEG4 last night.

Q: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN CHANNELS HAS MOVED TO MPEG4?

A: If you have TiVo (and maybe V6 Boxes) you will need to give the channels that moved an new "THUMBS UP" on your Favourite Channels list.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by garethf1927

Its on 108 in Scotland and 162 everywhere else so maybe that's why?

I don't think that this will be the case as the two EPG positions probably point to the same stream.

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

UPDATE:

CBS Reality, Horror Channel and Horror Channel +1 want over to MPEG4 last night.

Q: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN CHANNELS HAS MOVED TO MPEG4?

A: If you have TiVo (and maybe V6 Boxes) you will need to give the channels that moved an new "THUMBS UP" on your Favourite Channels list.

You can thumbs up/down an actual channel? Never knew this, doing this might stop suggestions from channels I have no interest in like shopping, asian etc.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

You can thumbs up/down an actual channel? Never knew this, doing this might stop suggestions from channels I have no interest in like shopping, asian etc.

Doing it on the channel name is a shortcut to putting it into the Favourites category in the guide. It doesn't affect the Suggestions.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

You can thumbs up/down an actual channel?

Something like that.

Let you watch BBC One, Sky Sports F1, BBC News and CNBC all the time and not an fan for Shopping Channels.

If you thumbs up that channel you will just see the ones you watch on the "My Favourites" list via TV Guide.

[RichardCoulter]

Ahhhh ok, thanks.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Something like that.

Let you watch BBC One, Sky Sports F1, BBC News and CNBC all the time and not an fan for Shopping Channels.

If you thumbs up that channel you will just see the ones you watch on the "My Favourites" list via TV Guide.

Do you mean click it on the EPG? Not quite sure what you mean.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Do you mean click it on the EPG? Not quite sure what you mean.

Your "My Favourites" list may look like this:

101. BBC ONE HD
103. ITV
111. Sky One
124. GOLD HD
199. FOX HD
519. Sky Sports News
740. QVC
904. BBC Radio 4

As you can see if you are not an fan of let say BBC Four HD it will not appear in "My Favourites" on your box.

Q: HOW DO YOU MAKE AN FAVOURITE CHANNELS LIST?

A:

1) Press HOME
2) Go to "Help & Settings"
3) Go over to "Settings"
4) Go to " Favourite Channels"
5) Pick channels you want to be on "My Favourites" by pressing THUMBS UP then go to Finished and press OK when you have pick your channels.

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Or Press OK from the channel you can watch and go to the channel name and press Thumbs up.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Do you mean click it on the EPG? Not quite sure what you mean.

You do need to press 'left' until the channel name / logo itself is highlighted rather than a show on the channel.

[nodrogd]

Originally Posted by garethf1927

Its on 108 in Scotland and 162 everywhere else so maybe that's why?

The two have the same programme ID (& bandwidth use) but different steam IDs, so this would be another possibility

[Media Boy UK]

UPDATE:

CBS Reality +1, Islam Channel English and S4C Audio Desc has now gone over to MPEG4. It happen on Tuesday Night.

Q: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN CHANNELS HAS MOVED TO MPEG4?

A: If you have TiVo (and maybe V6 Boxes) you will need to give the channels that moved an new "THUMBS UP" on your Favourite Channels list.