General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 4.

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by MarkC1984

So, looking forward to the morning to see if Drama has been added, but not holding my breath over it.

No disrespect but it shows how bad things are when people are looking forward to a freeview channel being added

Originally Posted by howardmicks

No disrespect but it shows how bad things are when people are looking forward to a freeview channel being added

Yeah I know I mean we're missing out on such classics as;

Originally Posted by Believe in Bulls...

Alt
BEN
Controversial TV
E! HD
Information TV
Klear TV
More4 HD
More>Movies
OH TV
Propeller
Reality TV
Showcase
Showcase 2
Sky 3D
Sky Atlantic (HD)
True Drama
Universal HD
Vox Africa

God, I mean all those shows on Showcase 2 I mean there's Teleshopping, and Teleshopping 2: Shop Harder and the far less popular sequel A Good Day to Teleshop.

Oh wait no, there's like 2 decent channels in that entire list.

[Chad]

I know everyone is worked up about BT Sports however don't forget this has been a great year for Virgin so far in terms of adding new channels. I left Virgin in December but have to admit I've been impressed with their additions over the past 8 months.

ITV2 HD
ITV3 HD
ITV4 HD
TLC
TLC HD
TLC+1
BBC Two HD
Quest+1
DMAX+1
More4+1
CBS Drama
H2
Animal Planet HD
Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery+1
Animal Planet +1
Discovery Science +1
Discovery History +1
Style
Discovery Home & Health +1
Vintage TV
TCM HD
TCM 2
Eurosport 2HD
France 24 English
NHK World TV
Al Jazeera English
Cartoon Network HD
Zee Café
Zing
France 24 French
ARY News UK
Sony SAB
Rishtey
UMP Movies
Al Jazeera Arabic
The Africa Channel

I don't think any other platform has added so many channels in 2013. Virgin have led the way.

[emmettk90]

Originally Posted by Chad

I know everyone is worked up about BT Sports however don't forget this has been a great year for Virgin so far in terms of adding new channels. I left Virgin in December but have to admit I've been impressed with their additions over the past 8 months.

ITV2 HD
ITV3 HD
ITV4 HD
TLC
TLC HD
TLC+1
BBC Two HD
Quest+1
DMAX+1
More4+1
CBS Drama
H2
Animal Planet HD
Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery+1
Animal Planet +1
Discovery Science +1
Discovery History +1
Style
Discovery Home & Health +1
Vintage TV
TCM HD
TCM 2
Eurosport 2HD
France 24 English
NHK World TV
Al Jazeera English
Cartoon Network HD
Zee Café
Zing
France 24 French
ARY News UK
Sony SAB
Rishtey
UMP Movies
Al Jazeera Arabic
The Africa Channel

I don't think any other platform has added so many channels in 2013. Virgin have led the way.

They also added Ginx which is a 24 hour gaming channel which I absolutely love.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by emmettk90

They also added Ginx which is a 24 hour gaming channel which I absolutely love.

I forgot that one. They also launched a few more foreign subscription channels not in my list too. In total Virgin are up to around 42 new channels on their platform, which works out at roughly a new channel launch every 5 days so far in 2013!

[Dave42]

Drama now broadcasting on 190

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Dave42

Drama now broadcasting on 190

It's currently showing 'Britains Best', which looks more like a historical programme than drama

Interestingly, they have just advertised themselves as being on Sky and Freeview, with no mention of VM.

Still, it isn't contracted to start until 6am, so I'll go to bed before I get into trouble

---------- Post added at 03:31 ---------- Previous post was at 03:30 ----------

Originally Posted by Chad

I forgot that one. They also launched a few more foreign subscription channels not in my list too. In total Virgin are up to around 42 new channels on their platform, which works out at roughly a new channel launch every 5 days so far in 2013!

Interesting calculations

[colin25]

Originally Posted by Dave42

Drama now broadcasting on 190

Drama always showing in this thread

---------- Post added at 05:25 ---------- Previous post was at 05:22 ----------

Originally Posted by Chad

I forgot that one. They also launched a few more foreign subscription channels not in my list too. In total Virgin are up to around 42 new channels on their platform, which works out at roughly a new channel launch every 5 days so far in 2013!

Would that be by the Chadgorian calendar? Are days longer? Or does the year start on a different date?

Perhaps it is a Chad-fiscal year, where the year starts when money is in your pocket, and ends when it refills?

[saabmania2]

That's it Now Arthur has given up that must mean BT Sport is not coming to Virgin I mean he must be in the know as the CEO's office rings him everyday to give a personal update
Personally for me I love my sport especially football but their is no way in this world I would sign up to Sky or BT just because I couldn't get their sports channel as I would have to get BB from Virgin everyone else in my area offers BB at a staggering 0.5mb's

[andy_m]

Originally Posted by saabmania2

That's it Now Arthur has given up that must mean BT Sport is not coming to Virgin I mean he must be in the know as the CEO's office rings him everyday to give a personal update
Personally for me I love my sport especially football but their is no way in this world I would sign up to Sky or BT just because I couldn't get their sports channel as I would have to get BB from Virgin everyone else in my area offers BB at a staggering 0.5mb's

I'm the same. Which, incidentally, means I'd regularly have a speed which would preclude me from streaming Bt Sport, even if I had their broadband. Jat.

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Chad

I know everyone is worked up about BT Sports however don't forget this has been a great year for Virgin so far in terms of adding new channels. I left Virgin in December but have to admit I've been impressed with their additions over the past 8 months.

ITV2 HD
ITV3 HD
ITV4 HD
TLC
TLC HD
TLC+1
BBC Two HD
Quest+1
DMAX+1
More4+1
CBS Drama
H2
Animal Planet HD
Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery+1
Animal Planet +1
Discovery Science +1
Discovery History +1
Style
Discovery Home & Health +1
Vintage TV
TCM HD
TCM 2
Eurosport 2HD
France 24 English
NHK World TV
Al Jazeera English
Cartoon Network HD
Zee Café
Zing
France 24 French
ARY News UK
Sony SAB
Rishtey
UMP Movies
Al Jazeera Arabic
The Africa Channel

I don't think any other platform has added so many channels in 2013. Virgin have led the way.

Missed one off bud nickelodean hd

[MutleyF]

Can someone please explain to me why it appears ESPN is back on Virgin as of Saturday two weeks after it closed down ?

I assume it is back from the comments here, and also from the TV Guides which are now showing a single HD channel for it.

I'm not reading anything into it, I am just curious

[saabmania2]

Originally Posted by andy_m

I'm the same. Which, incidentally, means I'd regularly have a speed which would preclude me from streaming Bt Sport, even if I had their broadband. Jat.

My next door neighbour has Sky and Sky ADSL+2 24mb BB and he barely gets 0.7mb on a good day and as low as 0.4mb is regularly seen, I spoke with BT on the BT instant chat service and they said that my area wouldn't be able to get BT vision until 2015

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Chad

which works out at roughly a new channel launch every 5 days so far in 2013!

Sounds familiar

We actually had 23 new channels by the start of March and 27 by the end. Media Boy's "unlikely rumour" was probably his most accurate post ever.

[Doug P]

Originally Posted by howardmicks

No disrespect but it shows how bad things are when people are looking forward to a freeview channel being added

Do not agree with you that things are bad. Also Drama is a welcome addition to VM imo.