Coming to Virgin TV - Page 55

spiderplant · 31-03-2008, 17:58

2) 32.

ufitm · 31-03-2008, 23:13

from down under abc , channel7 and channel9 , and a channel called
faiprrsli no sure when confirm later in the day

the-cable-guy · 01-04-2008, 04:16

when are those channels coming to VM ?

m.massey · 01-04-2008, 06:45

the jazz still on here, thouht it was bring take off at midnight 31st march, and more news on the i player coming.

ufitm · 01-04-2008, 09:06

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Originally Posted by ufitm

from down under abc , channel7 and channel9 , and a channel called
faiprrsli no sure when confirm later in the day

They are not coming if you rearrange the letters of the third channel
and add a t you get april first

Media Boy · 01-04-2008, 13:47

The price of TV XL will increase by Â£1.50 per month from June 1....

Full story here: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/help/changes.html

Info from Virgin Media .com

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

2) 32.

With Virgin closing down Analogue Cable in Coventry.

I think Virgin will make room for 224 SD Channels ( 32X7 )

and 56 HD Channels ( Virgin need 4 SD Channels to broadcast 1 HD Channel ).

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Quote:

Originally Posted by m.massey

the jazz still on here, thouht it was bring take off at midnight 31st march, and more news on the i player coming.

The Jazz is still broadcasing on Sky and online as well as Virgin Media. I have no info on why TheJazz is still on air for.

grabbi · 01-04-2008, 15:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by TV Boy

The price of TV XL will increase by Â£1.50 per month from June 1....

Full story here: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/help/changes.html

Info from Virgin Media .com

Wonder what that price increase is for.

I mean, we havent seen much at all in the way of content, nor channels.

All weve seen is channels coming OFF, yet were paying more for it? lol.

Good job VIPs dont feel that price rise.

ufitm · 01-04-2008, 15:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by grabbi

Wonder what that price increase is for.

I mean, we havent seen much at all in the way of content, nor channels.

All weve seen is channels coming OFF, yet were paying more for it? lol.

Good job VIPs dont feel that price rise.

Could it may be for sky basics, they might struck a deal with goning to
court

frogstamper · 01-04-2008, 15:49

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Originally Posted by ufitm

Could it may be for sky basics, they might struck a deal with goning to
court

Yeah it would be nice to think so, but I doubt it. I bet VM justify it by saying XL customers now get all the Setanta channels free now, never mind that we lost the Sky ones.

batchain · 01-04-2008, 15:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by grabbi

Wonder what that price increase is for.

I mean, we havent seen much at all in the way of content, nor channels.

All weve seen is channels coming OFF, yet were paying more for it? lol.

Good job VIPs dont feel that price rise.

There has been loads of content added to XL TV over the past year including increased content on TV choice, free music on demand and, of course, the Setanta Sports channels which are rumoured to be costing Virgin up to Â£2.50/month per xl subscriber, and that's without even taking inflation into account.

frogstamper · 01-04-2008, 16:23

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Originally Posted by batchain

There has been loads of content added to XL TV over the past year including increased content on TV choice, free music on demand and, of course, the Setanta Sports channels which are rumoured to be costing Virgin up to Â£2.50/month per xl subscriber, and that's without even taking inflation into account.

Fair comment, but when we lost the Sky channels VM said they wouldn't be giving people a refund because they believed people would rather they put the money into new programming. They cant have it both ways.

batchain · 01-04-2008, 16:56

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Originally Posted by frogstamper

Fair comment, but when we lost the Sky channels VM said they wouldn't be giving people a refund because they believed people would rather they put the money into new programming. They cant have it both ways.

Sky one, sky news & sky sports news were not exclusive to xl tv in the first place, they were included in the basic Size M TV pack which is free with a phone line.

New programming has cost a lot more than the cost of the Sky basics, then you have inflation on top. Add the cost Sky were asking and you'd be talking about a Â£3 increase not Â£1 (with e-Billing). As it is, Virgin's XL pack is now better today than it was before the Sky basics were removed, it has improved to such an extent that it now p****es all over Sky's inferior 6 mixes which already cost Â£21 for a fraction of the content that Virgin offers.

m.massey · 01-04-2008, 17:58

G cap media agrees to a 375m deal with rival global radio. news from gurardian.

Horizon · 01-04-2008, 19:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by TV Boy

With Virgin closing down Analogue Cable in Coventry.

I think Virgin will make room for 224 SD Channels ( 32X7 )

and 56 HD Channels ( Virgin need 4 SD Channels to broadcast 1 HD Channel ).

I would love to see this amount of channels launch on cable, but I doubt very much we will have this quantity of new channels within 2 years, let alone 2 months.

How VM choose to use their bandwidth freed up by the analogue shut down, is known only to them. Do not assume it means huge quantities of new channels. If they wanted to launch lots of new channels, they could do that today. They choose not to.

OLD BOY · 01-04-2008, 19:51

I don't think we will get the benefit of all that additional bandwidth until all the analogue services are closed down. We're probably looking at the turn of the year before that happens.

However, that's not to say that we may get some additional bandwidth to play about with soon for other reasons. I think there was an indication that some extra bandwidth would be made available in March/April.

Well, it's April....