Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

[cablestrider]

Originally Posted by Dee4leeds

Told you so! I was the first to report this, over a month ago!

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Chill dude ;-)

[Media Boy]

ZEE Gujarati to close down in India

ZEE Network has announced the closure of ZEE Gujarati in India.

It is yet unclear what the future holds for ZEE Gujarati in the UK.

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsar...arati_to_1.php

Info from Media24/7.

[paul_hadley]

Originally Posted by Dee4leeds

Told you so! I was the first to report this, over a month ago!

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That didn't actually say it was renaming to Five USA though - it just said it was being rebranded, which was known a while ago yes. The Five US name change to Five USA is new though.

[Media Boy]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

I have been given the launch dates for Blighty & Yesterday by UKTV in an email:...

Here is that email in full:-

I ask UKTV the following on Tuesday:

Do you know the launch date for

1) The rebrand of UKTV People as ''Blighty'' in February?

2) The rebrand of UKTV History as ''Yesterday'' in March?

And UKTV sent me this:

Dear Media Boy,

Blighty replaces UKTV People from February 17th, 2009 and will be available on cable and satellite. Channel numbers are Sky 566 and Virgin TV 206

Yesterday replaces UKTV History from March 2nd, 2009 and is available on Freeview and cable and satellite. The channel numbers are Sky 537 ([With UKTV History] +1 [on Sky] 538), Virgin TV 203 and Freeview 12.

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[Media Boy]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

I have been given the launch dates for Blighty & Yesterday by UKTV in an email:

Blighty will replace UKTV People on February 17th and will be available on cable and satellite. Channel numbers are Sky 566 and Virgin TV 206.

Yesterday will replace UKTV History on March 2nd and will be available on Freeview and cable and satellite. The channel numbers are Sky 537 (+1 538), Virgin TV 203 and Freevew 12.

I hate to say I told you so but: http://uktv.co.uk/holdingpage/blighty/index.cfm

Info from UKTV website.

[Media Boy]

This week list now online - see post one.

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ITV on Demand is rumoured to be coming to Virgin Media next Monday.

Rumour from DS Forums.

[Thebenster]

Do we have Eden+1 or not?

[Media Boy]

Originally Posted by Thebenster

Do we have Eden+1 or not?

We do not have Eden +1 even when Virgin Media owned 50% of it.

[Gadgie]

Been watching that new channel today, and its been the same program running on a tape, thought they would have made it more interesting, a bit disappointed really. Just as well they never gave us it +1
Cheers, Smudger.

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by Thebenster

Do we have Eden+1 or not?

Nope, we lost the old UK-Doc+1 and UK-History+1 so as we could have Watch.

[london2b3]

Any hope that Virgin will step up their move to bring new HD channels to us?

BSkyB launches high-definition TV push
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FT January 28 2009: BSkyB is slashing the price of its high definition set-top TV box in a bid to take advantage of the “significant opportunity� emerging in HD, as it reported interim results ahead of expectations.

The broadcaster said on Wednesday it was cutting the sale of its Sky+HD box from £150 to £49 in an effort to capitalise on a growing appetite for high definition products.

“Following a sharp increase in demand during 2008, we now see an attractive opportunity to invest in further accelerating the take-up of Sky+HD,� BSkyB said.......

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/85367748-e...0779fd2ac.html

[sherer]

according to this link

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=980740

Sky only have about 700,000 HD subscribers which is very little take up at all so you can see why VM aren't exactly throwing money at HD.

Maybe if VM could market the V+ and it's upscaling better they could get more subscribers and then they might be able to go into the HD market further

[EBD3000]

Because of big trees being between my house and the satellite I cannot get Sky but if I could then I'd ditch cable in a heartbeat and sign up to that cracking Sky HD deal.

Virgin need HD channels quickly and then to continue adding them.

[Andrewcrawford23]

Originally Posted by EBD3000

Because of big trees being between my house and the satellite I cannot get Sky but if I could then I'd ditch cable in a heartbeat and sign up to that cracking Sky HD deal.

Virgin need HD channels quickly and then to continue adding them.

the point is virgin dont need to add them, of the hd channels i say 4 or 5 are true hd channels and even then there aint much content on them that is true hd for the others, the hd picture quailty is only seen by a minority who can tell the difference majority of people cant. if you hd that much why want sky not move since tv is obviously your primary concern

[gadge]

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

the point is virgin dont need to add them, of the hd channels i say 4 or 5 are true hd channels and even then there aint much content on them that is true hd for the others, the hd picture quailty is only seen by a minority who can tell the difference majority of people cant. if you hd that much why want sky not move since tv is obviously your primary concern

If vm got discovery and nat geo they are both full time channels where everything shown is hd,for those that cant tell the difference with hd then need their eyes testing or their tv setting properly my sis in law came up a few weeks ago and she is no expert and she could see the difference straight away.