General : Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

I quite enjoy Lucky man tbh, i'll give bulletproof a go too.

Heads up too you can watch tonights fight on the UFC channel app fightpass for a bargain $99.99 (about £75) lol and people accuse SKY of ripping people off.

Yes, I've watched two series of Lucky Man. The first series was better than I expected, but towards the middle of series 2 it started getting a little tired and I was quite glad when it ended. I won't be watching any more of them.

[ottoni]

It's all very cloak and dagger as far as anything new on VM is concerned isn't it? They have always been like this😂

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by ottoni

It's all very cloak and dagger as far as anything new on VM is concerned isn't it? They have always been like this😂

It's the same on Sky. They can't talk about new channels until they've negotiated the deal with the providers.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by ottoni

It's all very cloak and dagger as far as anything new on VM is concerned isn't it? They have always been like this😂

Indeed as why would a company reveal its cards beforehand.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by denphone

Indeed as why would a company reveal its cards beforehand.

That's right, Den. Negotiations could be going just fine, the cableco lets its customers know it's coming, excitement about the launch from subscribers then encourage the channel to demand more money due to the obvious popularity of the channel.

Makes sense really, but it would be nice to have some indicators from Virgin sometimes, without being too specific.

[muppetman11]

On the Sky Sports Premier League games do Virgin have the watch from start feature behind the red button ?

[denphone]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

On the Sky Sports Premier League games do Virgin have the watch from start feature behind the red button ?

No MM.

[OLD BOY]

That's a bit rubbish then.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

That's a bit rubbish then.

Very much expected IMO..

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by jj20x

They did use donated capacity. I really don't know what has changed, it's not like there is heavy demand for COM8. With recent departures from the temporary muxes, including the Viacom 18 channels, there should be lots of spare capacity to "donate".

Community Channel has recently departed from it's original "community" remit, showing commercially produced content previously shown on other channels. Perhaps the commercial channels are complaining that CC has gifted carriage but is showing commercially produced content.

Although I was previously told that the Freeview channel is showing different content to the main channel, I have compared the Freeview EPG guide with the official CC listings and they look pretty similar to me. So I'm not quite sure where that suggestion came from, unless someone is aware of plans to schedule different content in the coming weeks.

The timing of this, the lack of notice and the Freeview re-branding is quite odd.

Didn't know about the commercial content.

I wonder if they are having to reduce their presence on Freeview to make room for Freesports that's about to start??

Also, I'm pretty sure that the consortium that won the right to run Freeview undertook to make provision for the Community Channel in its proposal. If it's on for two hours in the middle of the night (for the minimum of two hours now required for any channel) I guess it still meets this criteria.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I wonder if they are having to reduce their presence on Freeview to make room for Freesports that's about to start??

Unlikely with the massive amount of unused capacity on COM7/8 at the moment.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by jj20x

Unlikely with the massive amount of unused capacity on COM7/8 at the moment.

That's true, I can't fathom why they can't go 24/7 on there as an SD channel in the same way as Talking Pictures, Keep It Country etc.

If there's a problem with doing this, you'd think that they'd become a Freeview internet channel.

Talking of KIC, i'm surprised that they haven't appeared on VM yet as they seem to be on every other platform. Many niche/poorer channels have been joining VM alately, so (although I haven't been able to obtain any info. one way or the other), I think that VM must be offering such channels more favorable conditions to meet customer demands for eg Freeview channels to come to the platform so that we can access/record them all on the one STB.

Edit:. Out of interest, would anyone here welcome a country music channel? It's not really my cup of tea, but I do keep hearing a fair few people say that they still miss Country Music Television (CMT) (I think Viacom own it these days).

Was this ever on cable? I had satellite back in the nineties.

[Inactive Digital]

CMT was on Telewest, initially in the basic package, but towards the end it was a premium channel at £1 per month (not a typo!)

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Inactive Digital

CMT was on Telewest, initially in the basic package, but towards the end it was a premium channel at £1 per month (not a typo!)

Cheers

[Ddonald2016]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

On the Sky Sports Premier League games do Virgin have the watch from start feature behind the red button ?

It is sad but true no uhd sky sports and no red button to restart from the start and we still pay more than sky and we do have sky sports red button but not the most important