Coming to Virgin TV

[Media Boy]

Just to let everyone know:

1. Gay TV is own by 'The Star' newspaper and Television X.

2. And Gay TV is £15.99 per-month on Sky.

[Andrewcrawford23]

Originally Posted by the-cable-guy

broad band via satellite is faster tho, however its very expensive.

btw does anyone know of any websites that have info & photos of head ends here in the UK ? iv been searching but can find owt.

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satellite in the US has even more HD channels then cable does, almost all of the well known networks & studios now also broadcast in HD.

broadband by satelitte is not faster, it has a max speed of 155Mbps where as fibre has a thoerical max of well over 12Gbps i dnt even knwo the exact figyure yoiu need to look up about OC3*** to se eit max speed i know OC192 is about 2Gbps

[paul_hadley]

Originally Posted by mentalis

I haven't checked since early this morning, but has any seen the iPlayer on VM yet, or is it just VM trying to get us excited in the same way Microsoft did with Windows - just hope it's more popular that Vista appears to be.

iPlayer is confirmed to be launching in May.
http://www.virginmedia.com/tvradio/o...-is-coming.php

[Andrewcrawford23]

its launching next week but from onyl from red button it will eb available in catch up tv fully from may, it will be available in tv choice on demand later in the year when bbc start extending it to there full archieve

kangroo will mostly come next year

[gadge]

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

its launching next week but from onyl from red button it will eb available in catch up tv fully from may, it will be available in tv choice on demand later in the year when bbc start extending it to there full archieve

kangroo will mostly come next year

Are you sure andrew that its from the red button next week according to dig spy its may?

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by gadge

Are you sure andrew that its from the red button next week according to dig spy its may?

Yeah his right Gadge, there was a post on here last night with a link to VMs site saying exactly that, not long now eh!

[Andrewcrawford23]

Originally Posted by gadge

Are you sure andrew that its from the red button next week according to dig spy its may?

its only a short period of time basically a tastier for it but it fully launches in may

my source has confirmed it unlikely now to come as a channel until the bbc put there full archieve available

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

its only a short period of time basically a tastier for it but it fully launches in may

my source has confirmed it unlikely now to come as a channel until the bbc put there full archieve available

Andrew, as regards the BBC archive were they not doing a limited trial, with about 1000 hours of footage in certain areas in the UK, in the hope of rolling out the entire archive this year?

[mertle]

Originally Posted by frogstamper

Andrew, as regards the BBC archive were they not doing a limited trial, with about 1000 hours of footage in certain areas in the UK, in the hope of rolling out the entire archive this year?

yes currently trialing now with few historic documentaries. Dont need a player its streamed. Theres a George Best interview and something about the decline in shipbuilding which I watched with interest as my father was in the industry.

Anybody interested check out the link


http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/index.shtml

[the-cable-guy]

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

broadband by satelitte is not faster, it has a max speed of 155Mbps where as fibre has a thoerical max of well over 12Gbps i dnt even knwo the exact figyure yoiu need to look up about OC3*** to se eit max speed i know OC192 is about 2Gbps

from what iv seen you can get faster then 155Mbps if your willing to pay for it, however its abit of a hassle trying to find a provider in the UK. although fiber can go faster it aint happened yet in the this country.

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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

its only a short period of time basically a tastier for it but it fully launches in may

my source has confirmed it unlikely now to come as a channel until the bbc put there full archieve available

? does that mean that we'll get the full BBC archive then or ?

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by the-cable-guy

from what iv seen you can get faster then 155Mbps if your willing to pay for it, however its abit of a hassle trying to find a provider in the UK. although fiber can go faster it aint happened yet in the this country.

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? does that mean that we'll get the full BBC archive then or ?

In time we should, on the BBC website they say their aim is to make the entire archive available in the near future.

[the-cable-guy]

great i hope that some old programing will be available, that would be great.

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by the-cable-guy

great i hope that some old programing will be available, that would be great.

Try this link cable guy, the BBC guy is telling you all about the archives one million hours of content. and when its coming.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/

[the-cable-guy]

thanks for the link mate, the BBC have a massive archive so to have access to it all on VOD would be great. plus i have a MacroMaster Gold so i'l be able to add alot to my DVD collection ;o)

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plus i own a MacroMaster Gold so i'l be able to add programing to my DVD collection :o)

btw will they also be adding BBC films to the archive ?

[frattonstation]

..but the VM site says there will be only 250 hours of programmes available instead of the current 50 hours?

So isn't this just a "bigger" BBC On Demand section?

Apart from amount of programmes what is the difference from what we already have available on demand?

What's all the excitment about?