Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
15-08-2017, 17:28
|
#2221
|
cf.addict
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 221
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Thank you for taking the trouble to explain this, buckeye. I am not sure I could cope with all that!
I hope the complexity of getting all of your watch lists in one place finally demonstrates to those who seem not to understand the problem that led me to conclude that if Virgin offered as many streaming services as possible, this would be attractive to subscribers and could be their USP.
I think this may bring forward my migration from pay tv to streaming services, but I'll bide my time for now.
LG's veto is seriously disappointing and lacks vision.
|
Purely conjecture on my part but I guess with Mr Malone having fingers in the content pie as well then if everything were available via apps it would cut into his profits for his other business's,
also VM wouldn't be able to generate profits by charging people for what they don't want in order to view the things they do want.
Unfortunately imho this country is always going to lag behind our American cousins unless the major content holders (Sky and BT) are forced to divest their platform business from their content as BT has been forced to do with Openreach recently.
|
|
|
15-08-2017, 17:48
|
#2222
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 12,313
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by buckeye
Purely conjecture on my part but I guess with Mr Malone having fingers in the content pie as well then if everything were available via apps it would cut into his profits for his other business's,
also VM wouldn't be able to generate profits by charging people for what they don't want in order to view the things they do want.
Unfortunately imho this country is always going to lag behind our American cousins unless the major content holders (Sky and BT) are forced to divest their platform business from their content as BT has been forced to do with Openreach recently.
|
Why should they have to when many other providers around the world are platforms as well as content providers , being that you mention it even in the USA.
|
|
|
15-08-2017, 19:42
|
#2223
|
Rise above the players
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Wokingham
Services: 2 V6 boxes with 360 software, Now, ITVX, Amazon, Netflix, Lionsgate+, Apple+, Disney+, Paramount +,
Posts: 14,597
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by buckeye
Purely conjecture on my part but I guess with Mr Malone having fingers in the content pie as well then if everything were available via apps it would cut into his profits for his other business's,
also VM wouldn't be able to generate profits by charging people for what they don't want in order to view the things they do want.
Unfortunately imho this country is always going to lag behind our American cousins unless the major content holders (Sky and BT) are forced to divest their platform business from their content as BT has been forced to do with Openreach recently.
|
Understood, but then again, if access to the additional apps was only made available to subscribers on the Full House package, Mr Malone would be secure in the knowledge that all the apps in the world would not dilute his offerings (as long as they too were part of the Full House package!).
Mr Malone should be smart enough to realise that people who wanted Amazon and other OTT services would get them anyway through other devices. What he would be doing by allowing them on our set top boxes would be adding value, by allowing the content on these other services to be bookmarked on one list.
|
|
|
15-08-2017, 20:03
|
#2224
|
cf.geek
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 637
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
|
Sony are ditching the Kix brand, so that all 3 of their children's channels sit in a clean set; Pop, Tiny Pop and Pop Max.
Therefore I think it is very likely that Kix Power will leave VM, and if they have any sense at all they will replace it with Pop Max, so that we have the same 3 channels as Sky, Freeview, Freesat, YouView, BT and TalkTalk.
|
|
|
16-08-2017, 13:58
|
#2225
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 10,106
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Yes, that would make sense all round.
|
|
|
17-08-2017, 11:19
|
#2226
|
cf.geek
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 544
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Has anybody tried tve new radio app, its good shAme tHe favourites dont sync between boxes
|
|
|
17-08-2017, 14:24
|
#2227
|
Also on X (Twitter)
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Media Boy UK HQ
Posts: 14,748
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Radio Times has confirm that Sky Cinema Star Wars will be with us for two weeks from August 21st to September 4th using Sky Cinema Greats Channel number (Virgin Channel 434 [UK] and Virgin Channel 307 [Ireland])
---------- Post added at 14:24 ---------- Previous post was at 14:10 ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by SonicMaster
Therefore I think it is very likely that Kix Power will leave VM, and if they have any sense at all they will replace it with Pop Max, so that we have the same 3 channels as Sky, Freeview, Freesat, YouView, BT and TalkTalk.
|
Channel listing for "Kix Power" still says "Channel off air" until August 31st on TiVo Boxes.
__________________
Blog - Updated May 2nd.
What may come - May 1st.
Also on X
Got inside news but can't post it - PM me with info
|
|
|
18-08-2017, 15:17
|
#2228
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 10,106
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Wonder if it'll return with a new name though, given the rebranding excercise.
---------- Post added at 14:17 ---------- Previous post was at 13:45 ----------
Confirmed:. Freesports coming to VM:
https://www.freesports.tv
|
|
|
18-08-2017, 15:30
|
#2229
|
Still alive and fighting
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: In the land of beyond and beyond.
Services: XL BB, 3 360 boxes , XL TV.
Posts: 56,316
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
No doubt it will be heralded by Virgin as a great new channel coming and well worth their forthcoming price rise.
__________________
“The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself”
|
|
|
18-08-2017, 17:44
|
#2230
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 10,106
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Probably, despite it being a FTA channel (though I do expect these to be added as a matter of course for those actually paying for their television service).
|
|
|
18-08-2017, 22:53
|
#2231
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Edinburgh
Services: SKY Family, SKY Broadband Unlimited, YouView, Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Boxnation
Posts: 5,137
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Wonder if it'll return with a new name though, given the rebranding excercise.
---------- Post added at 14:17 ---------- Previous post was at 13:45 ----------
Confirmed:. Freesports coming to VM:
https://www.freesports.tv
|
I think the channel looks decent. Looks like a direct spin-off of Premier Sports and their content. Interesting from the trailer on their website that they appear to have the rights to Portuguese football. Okay so it's not blockbuster content but there's plenty on offer to appease fans of rugby, ice hockey, speedway and NASCAR.
I'd rather have it than not have it.
|
|
|
18-08-2017, 22:55
|
#2232
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: between Mars and Venus
Age: 44
Services: Plusnet 40mb unlimited fibre, roku, Verizon, netflix, nowtv, hbogo, hulu, SKY+HD box sets pack
Posts: 3,912
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by denphone
No doubt it will be heralded by Virgin as a great new channel coming and well worth their forthcoming price rise.
|
So it'll be in vms XL pack then?
|
|
|
19-08-2017, 05:47
|
#2233
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 10,106
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
At a guess I'd say M+/Mix, as all the past few additions of Freeview channels have been put into this pack.
I find the new radio app a lot easier to use than TuneIn.
|
|
|
19-08-2017, 19:56
|
#2234
|
Guest
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I find the new radio app a lot easier to use than TuneIn.
|
It's V6 only isn't it? which is an interesting move. Maybe commencing the end-of-life phase for the legacy Tivo boxes.
|
|
|
19-08-2017, 20:27
|
#2235
|
Rise above the players
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Wokingham
Services: 2 V6 boxes with 360 software, Now, ITVX, Amazon, Netflix, Lionsgate+, Apple+, Disney+, Paramount +,
Posts: 14,597
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by jj20x
It's V6 only isn't it? which is an interesting move. Maybe commencing the end-of-life phase for the legacy Tivo boxes.
|
Frankly, the old Tivos are so slow and unreliable these days, I think they should be scrapped without delay!
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 15 (0 members and 15 guests)
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 08:41.
|