Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
19-07-2018, 19:20
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
Premier Sports still coming through for me when I key in 551
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19-07-2018, 19:25
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
With this flurry of new channels, and potential loss of UKTV channels, it would be good if Virgin Media could fill in some of the gaps where TV channels are available in Ireland but not the UK:
HISTORY HD
Crime+Investigation HD
Disney Channel HD
MTV Classic
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19-07-2018, 19:27
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by pengedragon
Premier Sports still coming through for me when I key in 551
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Premier Sports will be free to Virgin customers for 8 weeks.
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It also plans to make £9.99 per-month channel Premier Sports available to all subscribers for free for eight weeks.
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19-07-2018, 19:38
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by denphone
Premier Sports will be free to Virgin customers for 8 weeks.
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Thanks for confirming that Den
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19-07-2018, 19:48
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
What he said, good news
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19-07-2018, 19:49
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by denphone
If no deal is reached one suspects Virgin Media will be receiving plenty of phone calls as those channels are watched by quite a few customers.
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I was going to say where this would leave customers, contract wise? A lot of fuming customers, myself included. It would be a very damaging blow to both parties but particularly to Virgin in terms of losing customers and attracting new ones!
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19-07-2018, 20:11
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by SonicMaster
This explains the sudden flurry of additions to the TV service on Saturday, ahead of the 10 channels plus all the HD and +1 versions potentially leaving on Sunday!
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Not only that, but last year's price rise was made public on 1 August ( here). I'd imagine Virgin would prefer to resolve this with UKTV fairly quickly, assuming they are about to start telling customers that their bills will be going up again.
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19-07-2018, 20:22
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by KingFry
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Well, I hope Virgin keep their nerve. The existing UKTV deal is most unsatisfactory, and it's only disputes such as these that ultimately resolve them.
I feel for people who love to watch these channels, although I would point out that the majority of their material consists of repeats. Personally, I won't miss them.
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Originally Posted by Inactive Digital
Not only that, but last year's price rise was made public on 1 August ( here). I'd imagine Virgin would prefer to resolve this with UKTV fairly quickly, assuming they are about to start telling customers that their bills will be going up again.
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Virgin have provided replacement channels which do not rely on repeated material.
People used to complain about repeats, but now they are happy to pay to see them!
How perverse!
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19-07-2018, 20:31
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
I struggle to find many things worth watching on the UKTV shows with the exception of the odd classic on Gold.
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19-07-2018, 20:32
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by SonicMaster
Hoping that they can come to a last minute agreement, if not it will be a huge blow to both parties.
This explains the sudden flurry of additions to the TV service on Saturday, ahead of the 10 channels plus all the HD and +1 versions potentially leaving on Sunday!
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It would be a cull of 24 channels in total taking into account +1 and HD. Surely a last minute deal will be agreed? If not it'll be the biggest amount of channels cut in one go in British broadcast history. Even more significant than the SKY basic channels leaving
11 years ago. After all the UKTV channels are the most watched outwith the classic "terrestrial channels".
My parents will be livid. Pretty sure they'll be on the phone to Virgin demanding a discount on Monday. I'm sure they won't be the only ones.
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19-07-2018, 20:34
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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I struggle to find many things worth watching on the UKTV shows with the exception of the odd classic on Gold.
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There are many of the older vintage who like watching these channels though MM.
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19-07-2018, 20:41
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by denphone
There are many of the older vintage who like watching these channels though MM.
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Yes, that is the dilemma. Surely, though, we shouldn't have to pay to watch all this repeated material. It is a disgrace, really.
UKTV channels should be consigned to Freeview. No wonder people are turning to Netflix and Amazon for their TV fix. At least they provide good value for money. They are churning out more original dramas than all the terrestrial and pay tv channels put together!
Pay tv channels will surely be doomed sooner rather than later if they cannot do better than this. And sadly, I concluded a while ago that they cannot.
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19-07-2018, 20:42
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
"In a press release, UKTV confirmed it was offering Virgin access to Gold HD and an increased range of on-demand content.
As it stands, UKTV's 10 channels will be removed over the weekend, with carriage ending at midnight 21st July 2018."
https://www.a516digital.com/2018/07/...t-to-lose.html
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19-07-2018, 20:43
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by denphone
There are many of the older vintage who like watching these channels though MM.
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And yet were they not the ones who used to complain about all the summer repeats on the BBC.
Now they are happy to pay to watch them!
Funny old world...
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19-07-2018, 20:48
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by SonicMaster
"In a press release, UKTV confirmed it was offering Virgin access to Gold HD and an increased range of on-demand content.
As it stands, UKTV's 10 channels will be removed over the weekend, with carriage ending at midnight 21st July 2018."
https://www.a516digital.com/2018/07/...t-to-lose.html
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Gold HD really old shows in some sort of letterbox format. Well the thing is i see it from both sides but losing all these channels in one go is massive
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