Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 4.

Great news today! :beer: :beer:
Now we want: Sky Atlantic SD/HD, Sky sports 3/4/F1 HD, Sky News HD, Sky Sports News HD, Universal HD and the missing Viacom channels...

Only really would want SS 3 and 4 HD but not a big concern. Not bothered about Atlantic at all. So think my Coming Soon thread moaning days are over lol :D

HDFootyMan

15-08-2013 18:30

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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35610783)

My understanding is Virgin have around 1.8 million XL customers.

Whilst Virgin are paying £75 million per year, some of that will be covered by M, M+ and L customers who take BT Sports for £15.00 per month.

It's impossible to work out exactly how much this will cost, per head, to people on the XL package.

For what's its worth, its around £3.50 per month per XL subscriber, but your right, we don't know how many people on M/L will subscribe. Not many on L I suspect, cheaper to upgrade to XL.

A great deal for both companies. My 'best case' scenario was for the content to be included in XL, with the HD channels costing extra, but we even got them! :shocked:

ocav	15-08-2013 18:43

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I have a feeling BT will just get paid £75mill regardless of subscribers, I reckon that's the deal they have done, which is a good for virgin!

DaMac

15-08-2013 18:50

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Originally Posted by Henkesghost (Post 35610802)

Only really would want SS 3 and 4 HD but not a big concern. Not bothered about Atlantic at all. So think my Coming Soon thread moaning days are over lol :D

Same here, not bothered about Atlantic but sky sports 3 in HD is sorely needed as sky always put man utd champions league matches on 3, just to wind up the most people.

Risco

15-08-2013 18:52

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This is a great deal and something that would never have happened under the old guard before the takeover. This deal is strong enough to stop people subscribing to Sky sports and just go with XL which will hurt Sky in the long run.

nodrogd

15-08-2013 18:55

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Looks as if Sky are getting the backlash on their forums now.

cdf90

15-08-2013 18:55

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Originally Posted by BomberAF (Post 35610621)

What I said here isn't actually true. But if you look at what I said in another post about big changes afoot a part of this will see all HD channels that are on Sky available to VM. So where you have the Sky channels if there is a HD channel you will also get the HD channel to go with it. This will start to be implemented and should be complete within the next 2 years. Ambiguous I know but watch this space.

Hopefully that would mean premium HD channels will come with the SD versions, cos its not really worth an extra £7.

Mad Max

15-08-2013 19:06

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Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35610781)

Bit harsh bud wouldn't say it's gloating just friendly banter,it makes a change for vm to get one up on sky it's certainly been a long time coming

Totally agree with you there Howard, there was plenty of gloating from some Sky boys on here on 1st of August, albeit mostly banter, what goes around comes around, as they say...:upyours::D

tpick

15-08-2013 19:09

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Originally Posted by martin201002 (Post 35610760)

Certainly is a good time to be a Virgin Media customer.

Yes, it is, I was convinced that we wouldn't get BT Sport, so i negotiated a reduction on my payments and was offered an upgrade to 60 meg broadband.

I kept XL pack though and got BT SPORT!

denphone

15-08-2013 19:09

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Originally Posted by colin25 (Post 35610800)

I seem to remember it was the Virgin "customers" running their mouths.

and now doing it again.

Consistent :)

Most of it is light hearted banter which in my mind is non offensive to the vast majority.:)

tpick

15-08-2013 19:11

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Originally Posted by nodrogd (Post 35610815)

Looks as if Sky are getting the backlash on their forums now.

What goes around..comes around....!!

Hugh	15-08-2013 19:16

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35610749)

you, dear boy, are as guilty as the rest....

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Originally Posted by colin25 (Post 35610751)

really? please show me?

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Originally Posted by colin25 (Post 35610800)

I seem to remember it was the Virgin "customers" running their mouths.

and now doing it again.

Consistent :)

Some of things you have posted in the last week, re BT Sports...;)

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Maybe it is free BT sport for all sky sports customers , and what you said.

oops..i am now sounding like a virgin user

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Don't discount that they could actually be that

re 'petulant children' comment by maverickjesus

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You have my support Arthur, I will not take any channels that have sport from Virgin, never never Never!

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Or as we call it normally, Virgin comms

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Of course sky has eagles, that soar and hunt the pigeons

re a 'pigeon post' comment

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And a fool sees what he wants to believe

re a comment that someone was expecting to see a Liverpool match on the 17th.

Hope this helps...:D

Henkesghost

15-08-2013 19:20

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Originally Posted by colin25 (Post 35610800)

I seem to remember it was the Virgin "customers" running their mouths.

and now doing it again.

Consistent :)

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35610824)

Most of it is light hearted banter which in my mind is non offensive to the vast majority.:)

I don't think this is light hearted at all. This could be the next civil war, Virgin and Sky subscribers rampaging through the streets banging each other on the head with their respective remote controls. Are our remotes bigger?

Anyway, Come ahead ya dish loving numpties.:mad: Cable Forum mad squad ya bandits!