Coming Soon to Virgin TV

[mentalis]

Originally Posted by TV Boy

My Channel 4 HD info is from an Virgin Media insider and they told me not post they infomation.

Can you drop any hint? Is it good news or bad news for subscribers, or is that also giving too much away.

Can you provide a date (and I mean a realistic date - not 'when hell freezes over and VM beats Sky on subscriber numbers' ) when you will be able to tell us?

[Media Boy UK]

Sorry but I cant give out any more info.

[gadge]

Originally Posted by TV Boy

Sorry but I cant give out any more info.

Must be big we wait with baited breath.

[mentalis]

Oh well. It was worth a try. I'm not going to try to hold my breath - I'll turn blue.

[demented]

Surely others have hinted at the Channel 4 group contract ending in either October or December and thanks for telling us anyway tvboy.

[braysoj1]

Hallmark +1 and Diva TV + 1 not working

[Media Boy UK]

Here is the info I have:

Channel 4 HD - Virgin are trying get it added (No Date given)

Pop Girl and maybe Kilx! is planned for September or October.

Note: Virgin have yet to sign an deal to carry Kix so it might not appear at the same time of Pop Girl.

[Gregy]

Originally Posted by TV Boy

Here is the info I have:

Channel 4 HD - Virgin are trying get it added (No Date given)

Pop Girl and maybe Kilx! is planned for September or October.

Note: Virgin have yet to sign an deal to carry Kix so it might not appear at the same time of Pop Girl.

So if they are trying to sign a carriage deal for Kix, do you have any information on wheather they are trying to sign any other CSC Media channels such as AnimeCentral/ True Entertainment or True Movies 2?

[Media Boy UK]

That all I got - sorry

[Horizon]

Here's a copy of one of my postings from DS regarding VM's results today. Maybe of interest here, or not...:

For those that can't be bothered to listen to the webcast, here are a few titbits of news from it. All non-financial as that's been done to death now :

50mb will be stm'd. This has also been confirmed by traxdata over on the Cable Forum who knows about such things.

Analogue TV to be completely shutdown by the end of 2010.

HD - Neil Berkett made a mention of HD, so clearly there will be more of it but who's knows when. Hint: if you get 50mb you may get more than others...

Mobile broadband to be launched at the end of 2008.

I urge all cable anoraks to listen to the webcast, or at least the bit about bandwidth. It was very interesting. Berkett explained how much bandwidth VM have, what's its being used for and when analogue is shut down, how much could be freed up. If you can't be bothered with the webcast, have a look at the slide on its own, pages 12-13 here:

http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_...esentation.pdf

In that context, two city analysts asked Berkett why he wasn't shutting analogue tv down sooner. Berkett (unconvincingly in my opinion) replied that he didn't want to force migrate 200k valuable customers to digital, but preferred a gradual approach. He explained that he could change the schedule if he wanted. The fact that VM is severely financially constrained, is the reason, I believe, why analogue hasn't been shut down yet.

That's about it.

[Media Boy UK]

List now update - see post 1

The news on Channel 4 HD, Pop Girl and Kilx will be added on Monday and also ''Did you know?'' will be back on Monday.

[Tijer]

hallmark and diva +1 no longer here were earlier showing blank screens.... Since they Vanished Dave+1 sounds like they are Daleks!

[Horizon]

....must be a problem with the headend serving your area. Report the fault to VM. They're working fine in my area, by the way.

[frogstamper]

TV Boy have you heard anything about the chances of VM carrying the new Military History channel?...or is this yet another channel Sky get that we trolls at VM never will.

[huxleypiguk]

Can't find any info on Kilx! Does anyone have a link ?

Pop Girl looks scary, though my daughter will love it.....