General : Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by Itshim

* Not a smart TV ? on mine is a app for Now Tv

Yes it's a smart TV mate, but doesn't have the Now TV app, I think only LG TV's have the Now TV app.

[denphone]

Yes as far as l know it is only LG TV's that have the Now TV app.

[muppetman11]

If your wanting Now TV specifically for a box and the Entertainment Pass this seems an ok offer.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01...6kL&ref=plSrch

[Mad Max]

Thanks MM, I may wait till the New Now TV box is released at the end of June, what i'm mostly concerned about is being able to catch up on the shows from Billions and Game of Thrones, I wont be going ahead with it if I can't watch these shows from the first episode of Billions and the first episode of Game of Thrones Season six.

[Tricky Trevor]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

Yes it's a smart TV mate, but doesn't have the Now TV app, I think only LG TV's have the Now TV app.

I have the John Lewis 4K tv made by LG and the Now tv app is on there

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Helix

They are announcing a new Now TV box on the 29th June. It is meant to be 4K and based on the Roku 4. They have said it will offer more channels including those on Freeview, but its unclear if it will have a tuner or if it will use IPTV for those channels as well.

I wonder if this is why there are lots of offers around at the moment to get rid of the old stock??

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

Thanks MM, I may wait till the New Now TV box is released at the end of June, what i'm mostly concerned about is being able to catch up on the shows from Billions and Game of Thrones, I wont be going ahead with it if I can't watch these shows from the first episode of Billions and the first episode of Game of Thrones Season six.

Billions is available until August. GOT season 6 ep 1-3 no longer available, ep 4 has five days left

[Mad Max]

I don't think I will be bothering with Now TV, I just looked in on their forum and lots of people are complaining that they cannot watch the beginning of some shows, for instance if you joined now to watch G.O.T season six, you'd miss the very first episode as it has expired, that's about as useful as a chocolate teapot!

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Originally Posted by passingbat

Billions is available until August. GOT season 6 ep 1-3 no longer available, ep 4 has five days left

So why is Billions available until August when it first aired in January, yet you cannot watch G.O.T newest series and it started in April?

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

if you joined now to watch G.O.T season six, you'd miss the very first episode as it has expired, that's about as useful as a chocolate teapot!

Agreed, considering the amount of money Sky paid HBO, they should have the rights to ALL back episodes and season. Services like HBO Nordic have all episodes.

But because Sky have the rights until 2020, the chances of a similar service are zero for the UK.

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Originally Posted by Mad Max

So why is Billions available until August when it first aired in January, yet you cannot watch G.O.T newest series and it started in April?

Sky didn't start to air Billions until a few weeks ago. Also, I think Billions is a Showtime show, not HBO; the deal with Showtime is probably different

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Agreed, considering the amount of money Sky paid HBO, they should have the rights to ALL back episodes and season. Services like HBO Nordic have all episodes.

But because Sky have the rights until 2020, the chances of a similar service are zero for the UK.

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Sky didn't start to air Billions until a few weeks ago. Also, I think Billions is a Showtime show, not HBO; the deal with Showtime is probably different

Absolutely ridiculous that ppl have to go to all this trouble to try and watch some decent shows, all because the money grabbers cannot agree amongst themselves to do a deal, and make the content available for those who wish to view it without forcing them to join Sky, really makes me mad!

[Bananaman_007]

Does anybody have any updates on Tru TV? It was reported here that it was testing off the EPG, how long do these tests take? I would like to be able to record America's Got Talent when it starts on the 16th

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

Absolutely ridiculous that ppl have to go to all this trouble to try and watch some decent shows, all because the money grabbers cannot agree amongst themselves to do a deal, and make the content available for those who wish to view it without forcing them to join Sky, really makes me mad!

The fragmentation is likely to continue. Winners are consumers who want niche channels, losers are consumers who want lots of content from many different providers.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Bananaman_007

Does anybody have any updates on Tru TV? It was reported here that it was testing off the EPG, how long do these tests take? I would like to be able to record America's Got Talent when it starts on the 16th

Still no confirmed launch date for Tru TV appearing on Virgin Media UK.

[Arthurgray50@blu]

I simply cannot understand why VM doesn't give customers a choice of channels. I know for a fact that there are more True channels, than we have.

I know that when VM took over the Cable network on the Isle Of Wight (I think it was IOW) The network had True channels, that wasn't on the VM network here

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

I simply cannot understand why VM doesn't give customers a choice of channels. I know for a fact that there are more True channels, than we have.

I know that when VM took over the Cable network on the Isle Of Wight (I think it was IOW) The network had True channels, that wasn't on the VM network here

The only cable companies VM have taken over have been UPC in Ireland and Smallworld in NW England and Scotland. It's possible that Smallworld had the True channels but they had fewer channels than VM and did not have BT Sport. (I appreciate that UPC was owned by LGI which also owned VM but VM did assume management of UPC Ireland.)