Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
07-08-2018, 23:06
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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The current network configuration demonstrates no such thing. It's an outright falsehood to claim that this is any kind of meaningful upper limit.
Your cupboard space analogy is even more ludicrous. Your claim would be the equivalent setting an arbitrary limit, or an imaginary line, within the cupboard and deliberately not using space beyond it.
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I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Let's leave it that
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07-08-2018, 23:12
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
I fail to see how agreeing to disagree as you continue to misrepresent reality benefits any of the members of this forum.
I have proven you wrong. There is capacity for far more channels than you claim.
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07-08-2018, 23:20
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
Time to leave it alone now as we are simply going round in circles.
On VM, channel 343 says that Vintage TV is currently off air due to a 'technical fault'.
This channel was recently removed from Freesat & Freeview and all day their satellite feed has been showing black level with tone (as has their internet stream).
Initial enquires to Sky and Vintage TV were met with people being told that they knew nothing about the channel being unavailable. Now Vintage TV are saying that, in order to make the channel as widely available as possible, the channel has been temporarily removed from Sky and VM.
Sadly, it looks like this channel could be in trouble.
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07-08-2018, 23:28
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
By your rationale the network now only has space for four HD channels and a single low bitrate SD channel.
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08-08-2018, 08:45
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
How about everyone stick to the topic which is that which is coming soon to Virgin Media TV?
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08-08-2018, 11:04
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
That’s a shame I liked vintage tv had some great late 80s early 90s indie
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08-08-2018, 13:05
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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That’s a shame I liked vintage tv had some great late 80s early 90s indie
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It's said to be coming bzck to Virgin and Sky but not to Freeview or Freesat. However, I'm not sure whether that will actually happen, but fingers crossed.
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08-08-2018, 13:21
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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That’s a shame I liked vintage tv had some great late 80s early 90s indie
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Me too, but events over the past few weeks do look like the channel is in financial trouble. They appear to be trying to explain things away as businesses do whilst trying to obtain fresh funding, so let's hope that they are successful.
It was/is one of the most popular music channels, so the decline of this genre does now seem to be having a serious impact. I imagine that the new 4K MTV channel said to be coming will focus on the channel showing programmes instead of music.
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08-08-2018, 13:23
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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It's said to be coming bzck to Virgin and Sky but not to Freeview or Freesat. However, I'm not sure whether that will actually happen, but fingers crossed.
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Here's hoping VM can squeeze it back in again - what with all the capacity issues
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08-08-2018, 14:25
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
How about everyone stick to the topic which is that which is coming soon to Virgin Media TV, and less of the jibes, please?
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08-08-2018, 16:15
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Me too, but events over the past few weeks do look like the channel is in financial trouble. They appear to be trying to explain things away as businesses do whilst trying to obtain fresh funding, so let's hope that they are successful.
It was/is one of the most popular music channels, so the decline of this genre does now seem to be having a serious impact. I imagine that the new 4K MTV channel said to be coming will focus on the channel showing programmes instead of music.
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I would have thought a 4K music channel would be popular if it concentrated on music that people actually wanted to hear. I really don't understand why some music channels have morphed into children's 'comedy', reality and soap opera programmes. MTV should be concentrating on music. Isn't that what the 'M' stands for in MTV?
If the new channel doesn't contain music in abundance, they can stick it, 4K or no!
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08-08-2018, 16:17
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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I would have thought a 4K music channel would be popular if it concentrated on music that people actually wanted to hear. I really don't understand why some music channels have morphed into children's 'comedy', reality and soap opera programmes. MTV should be concentrating on music. Isn't that what the 'M' stands for in MTV?
If the new channel doesn't contain music in abudance, they can stick it, 4K or no!
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Instead of doing what they were set up to do its all about chasing the ratings nowadays OB.
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08-08-2018, 16:55
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Welcome to Virgin TV has moved from Virgin UK Channel 999 to Virgin UK Channel 997. ![Confused](images/smilies/confused.gif)
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Speaking of which, I watched it for a few seconds and noticed there was something missing from their "collection of on demand content", I wonder what it could be...
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08-08-2018, 17:07
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by Richardcoulter;c-90853489
Vintage TV is currently off air on channel 343 due to a 'technical fault'.
Sadly, I have to concur with what omnidirectional had to say about this in another thread:
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Originally Posted by omnidirectional;c-90852368
Earlier they seemed puzzled by people asking why Vintage had been removed from Sky and were recommending contacting Sky. Now they're saying it's actually just part of the plan to change the way the channel is distributed (so why the confusion earlier?).
When Vintage TV first dropped off air a couple of weeks ago I was prepared to believe it was a technical fault, as they claimed. But with the removal from Freesat, Freeview, and now going off air on Sky/Virgin it looks like the channel is in trouble.
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Initial enquires to Sky and Vintage TV were met with people being told that they knew nothing about the channel being unavailable. Now Vintage TV are saying that, in order to make the channel as widely available as possible, the channel has been temporarily removed from Sky & VM.
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Slate now amended to say that 'Vintage TV is currently unavailable due to technical difficulties experienced by the broadcaster.'
---------- Post added at 17:07 ---------- Previous post was at 17:04 ----------
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Speaking of which, I watched it for a few seconds and noticed there was something missing from their "collection of on demand content", I wonder what it could be... ![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
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Well, at least they aren't misleading people about what to expect. It also indicates that VM really do believe that the relationship is over if they have gone to the trouble of amending this.
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08-08-2018, 18:22
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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I would have thought a 4K music channel would be popular if it concentrated on music that people actually wanted to hear. I really don't understand why some music channels have morphed into children's 'comedy', reality and soap opera programmes. MTV should be concentrating on music. Isn't that what the 'M' stands for in MTV?
If the new channel doesn't contain music in abundance, they can stick it, 4K or no!
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Music channels have had their day in my opinion.
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