How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
02-02-2007, 19:50
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How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
How can you tell if a programme is going to be on NTL "on demand"? Is it random?
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02-02-2007, 19:57
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Re: How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
Simple answer, with difficulty.
It does make the "pick of the week" options rather unreliable, especially as if something goes wrong, even a series you thought you'd seen the first five episodes, suddenly doesn't appear.
It's why you need the tvdrive 
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02-02-2007, 20:54
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Re: How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
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Originally Posted by Rob
Simple answer, with difficulty.
It does make the "pick of the week" options rather unreliable, especially as if something goes wrong, even a series you thought you'd seen the first five episodes, suddenly doesn't appear.
It's why you need the tvdrive |
Or a standard VCR 
The wife regularly misses out on Casualty and Holby as they sometimes don't appear. If you really want to see it, I suggest you record it in case it doesn't appear.
Apparantly after ER they announced that if you had missed it, you could catch it on 4 on demand, however she's been looking and it never appeared in the list.
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02-02-2007, 21:34
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Re: How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
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Originally Posted by bubs999
Or a standard VCR
The wife regularly misses out on Casualty and Holby as they sometimes don't appear. If you really want to see it, I suggest you record it in case it doesn't appear.
Apparantly after ER they announced that if you had missed it, you could catch it on 4 on demand, however she's been looking and it never appeared in the list. |
Casualty & Holby on BBC programmes not Channel 4 ones. So they wont be on 4oD.
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02-02-2007, 21:47
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Re: How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
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Originally Posted by RileyM
Casualty & Holby on BBC programmes not Channel 4 ones. So they wont be on 4oD.
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heh....i don't think that's what he was saying! 
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02-02-2007, 21:56
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Re: How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
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heh....i don't think that's what he was saying! |
Oops, sorry 
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Originally Posted by bubs999
Or a standard VCR
Apparantly after ER they announced that if you had missed it, you could catch it on 4 on demand, however she's been looking and it never appeared in the list. |
I doubt ER will be on Pick of the Week as it is not a programme commissioned by C4. Try the TV Hits section. If it isn't there maybe the announcer meant it'd be on the the online version of 4oD. If this is true, then you need to pay to watch it. Most of the content on the online version of 4oD needs to be paid for, even the content that is free in the Pick Of The Week section of ntl:telewest On Demand
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03-02-2007, 10:13
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Re: How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
Would it be that difficult for them to put a little OD icon on the info page for that programme, similar to the W and S icons for widescreen and Subtitles?
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03-02-2007, 12:11
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Re: How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
That's how they have it on Homechoice. There's a 'R' next to things that are going to be available on demand.
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03-02-2007, 13:07
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Re: How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
http://www.filmflexmovies.co.uk/home.aspx
shows you the movies that are coming soon...
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03-02-2007, 18:55
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Re: How can you tell what's going to be on VOD?
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Originally Posted by Swipe
Would it be that difficult for them to put a little OD icon on the info page for that programme, similar to the W and S icons for widescreen and Subtitles?
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Excellent idea. i think Virgin Media should consider this.
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