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

[nialli]

Originally Posted by passingbat

The Netflix offering is very different to what is offered on Sky movies. Price for a starters; only six quid a month as against £26 per month for Sky movies in HD and 5.1 audio. (much of Netflix is HD with a lot with 5.1 audio).

Sky movies does not have TV series; Netflix have loads. Most of the films on Netflix are older (hence the cheaper price) but they do have some recent films, e.g. The Hobbit and The Hunger Games.

Netflix would be a completely different additional offering to what is currently available on VM, and would be a convenient way for people who don't want an extra box to access it.

Maybe Netflix would be a suitable replacement for the woeful PictureBox, which must have very low subscription numbers these days

[Anypermitedroute]

would providing Netflix/Lovefilms hamper our relationship (call it what you will) with Sky whom we rely on to supply other chanenels.

PictureBox was never a threat but supplying Netflix/Lovefilm option VM would be suggesting an alternative to Sky for which we have a wholsesale agreement.

Is there an OFCOM ruling saying they HAVE to supply Sky movies, I think there is one to cover reasonable costs but I refer to the original point is that by pursuing this are we danger of not obtaining the final installment of the holy grail of HD/SD channels remaining not in the VM portfolio

Just think we could follow the AVP motto is that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and with SKY Vs BT we could try and use it to our advantageto procure the other channels

[Media Boy UK]

The following is the top 20 posters of the Coming Soon to Virgin Media 2013 treads so far:

This total is only up to August 6th - full list will be reveal in December.

No. - Poster - posts
1) denphone 1,013
2) Media Boy 792
3) johnasimmons 536
4) Dave42 415
5) howardmicks 328
6) nstokes 315
7) Chad 299
8) Jameseh 273
9) andy_m 240
10) jj20x 205
11) passingbat 197
12) ocav 191
13) Doug P 190
14) Henkesghost 176
15) Mad Max 168
16) RichardCoulter 157
17) muppetman11 153
18) harry_hitch 136
19) OLD BOY 130
20) devilincarnate 129

---------- Post added at 15:22 ---------- Previous post was at 15:18 ----------

Voting will start in September for the 'best channel launch on Virgin Media' on my blog.

Due to size of the channel launches this year I will be doing an month vote then the top one will go to the best channel launch poll.

[denphone]

Poster of the year has to go to Squire Howard methinks and for the naughty man poster of the year l think that has to go to that purveyor of naughtiness Mr Stokes.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by denphone

Poster of the year has to go to Squire Howard methinks and for the naughty man poster of the year l think that has to go to purveyor of naughtiness Mr Stokes.

I am not doing an 'naughty poster of the year' that will take too long for me to make my mind up.

I have three posters in mind for 'poster of the year'.

[ocav]

I'm sure poster of the year would be BomberAF?

Also I post on here more than MM and OLD BOY, wow.

[Anypermitedroute]

are we jumping the gun starting in September when we still have 3 months to go and if rumours are to believe we are expecting more soon in September

mind you even just looking at the first 9 months any of the candidates would still beats Channel 5+1 as best new channel of 2012 award

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute

are we jumping the gun starting in September when we still have 3 months to go and if rumours are to believe we are expecting more soon in September

mind you even just looking at the first 9 months any of the candidates would still beats Channel 5+1 as best new channel of 2012 award

I will have an extra round of voting in December if Virgin do launch more channels with the winner of Round 2 being on it.

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by denphone

Poster of the year has to go to Squire Howard methinks and for the naughty man poster of the year l think that has to go to that purveyor of naughtiness Mr Stokes.

Cheers bud,but the great mb and yourself are vastly superior to me

[ocav]

I think we know what will be channel launch of the year/poster of the year/informant of the year/biggest load of bull of the year

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by ocav

I think we know what will be channel launch of the year/poster of the year/informant of the year/biggest load of bull of the year

Do we???

[denphone]

Originally Posted by howardmicks

Cheers bud,but the great mb and yourself are vastly superior to me

l am here to serve the masses of the great and the good.

[Doug P]

Den and MB have my votes.... must post more or less to get off 13th spot!!!

[vincerooney]

A random off topic question I just need a quick answer. Can you get virgin media without a phone line? We have XL tv, sky sports and medium broadband and large phone. If we remove the phone is this possible and how much would I save?

I love you all

[Doug P]

I asked this six months ago and was advised that you can drop the landline but that the saving is er not much....