Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009) - Page 4

spiderplant · 08-01-2009, 22:18

Contrary to popular belief, VM tend to announce things when they happen. In an unpredictable business, it makes good sense to only announce them when they are ready to go. So I'd expect the ITV content to start appearing very shortly.

VOD was first announced on the day it launched.
http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...800&highlight=

Same with iPlayer.
http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...610&highlight=

Out of necessity, large amounts of VOD content can't instantly appear. It needs to be propagated over the network to the 55 server farms.

demented · 08-01-2009, 22:25

My point with iPlayer was that there was a great fanfare associated with it. On day 1, the content didn't really increase, at all, it was the UI there. It really did take months for the content to grow to the good standard it is now.

I agree in this case it was probably sensible keeping quiet as if those media reports are anything to go buy virgin had a year's difficult haggling with ITV, so a good job all round.

The only thing that suggests to me that ITV vod might appear is the strange disappearance of large amounts of HD vod at more or less the same time as this announcement...

Andrewcrawford23 · 08-01-2009, 22:53

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

Contrary to popular belief, VM tend to announce things when they happen. In an unpredictable business, it makes good sense to only announce them when they are ready to go. So I'd expect the ITV content to start appearing very shortly.

VOD was first announced on the day it launched.
http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...800&highlight=

Same with iPlayer.
http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...610&highlight=

Out of necessity, large amounts of VOD content can't instantly appear. It needs to be propagated over the network to the 55 server farms.

55

what sort size capicty for storage they got? it must be into 100tb's

frogstamper · 09-01-2009, 00:44

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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

55

what sort size capicty for storage they got? it must be into 100tb's

It makes you think doesn't it, I reckon at a guess it would be a lot more than 100's tbs I'd say well into the 1,000's of tbs.

virginruinedntl · 09-01-2009, 01:12

nah, 320gb max, they will all be low bitrate divx :PP

Wonder what the quality of ITV player will be as their 1 on the website uses an hurrendous bitrate its completely unwatchable, iplayer's video is fairly decent, not great but watchable, hope itv player doesnt give the same awful quality to virgin boxes.

Media Boy · 09-01-2009, 11:33

UKTV Food, UKTV Style and UKTV Gardens will be rebrand anythime from April to June 2009:

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UKTV continues its network rebrand to future proof its business by creating a portfolio of multiplatform brands with the re-launch of UKTV Documentary, UKTV People and UKTV History as Eden, Blighty and Yesterday respectively in the first quarter of 2009. The final phase of its ambitious rebrand will be completed in Q2 of this year with the re-launch of its lifestyle offerings.

http://uktv.co.uk/press/item/aid/610549

Info from UKTV.

keef319 · 09-01-2009, 11:56

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

New Channel coming next Month.

Living2 +1 will launch on the 5th of February 2009 on Virgin and Sky.

Info from agbnielsen

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The ITV and Virgin Media deal signed today we may get:

ITV2 +1
ITV3 +1
ITV4 +1

Oh Great...MORE +1's!!!

Andrewcrawford23 · 09-01-2009, 12:10

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Originally Posted by virginruinedntl

nah, 320gb max, they will all be low bitrate divx :PP

Wonder what the quality of ITV player will be as their 1 on the website uses an hurrendous bitrate its completely unwatchable, iplayer's video is fairly decent, not great but watchable, hope itv player doesnt give the same awful quality to virgin boxes.

you have no concept of video encoding them even if it was low bitrate which i snt, they sitll need at least 10tb for all the stuff they have, to have it all fit on 320gb then need to have the file sizes about 1mb each and i dnt think that is the size and the video would be unwatchable

btw it encoded in h264

virginruinedntl · 09-01-2009, 14:39

andrewcrawford, i was joking hence the ":PP" at the end of the sentence.

m.massey · 09-01-2009, 22:10

is there a date when the itv player is coming to virgin, ? and whould it work the as the bbc by the red button on itv.

Andrewcrawford23 · 09-01-2009, 23:58

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Originally Posted by virginruinedntl

andrewcrawford, i was joking hence the ":PP" at the end of the sentence.

apogolises then its because your used 2 p it never came up as graphics so i just missed it

braysoj1 · 10-01-2009, 22:15

any news on Discovery Quest on virgin media

Media Boy · 12-01-2009, 13:56

This weeks list update is now online:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34709089-post1.html

---------- Post added at 13:56 ---------- Previous post was at 13:19 ----------

Non-Virgin Media News:

Nuts TV is to closed this Wednesday night at 3am.

Info from my FreeSat from Sky Box.

demented · 12-01-2009, 16:22

Any News or rumours about Animal Planet HD mediaboy?

Media Boy · 12-01-2009, 16:29

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Any News or rumours about Animal Planet HD mediaboy?

Here is the only thing I have on Animal Planet HD.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...5&postcount=66

Info from Digital Spy Forums.