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In VM area’s why don’t they also provide a standalone VoD service for people who want just a VoD service if they have Sky HD for example like we do?

This way, VM get into Sky homes and enable their presence before Sky get’s their own service up and running? It would also allow them to market more efficiently their TV/Broadband services and other services as they come along into our household and although we’d be using two separate boxes we could handle the switching back n forth.

It’s certainly something we’d be interested in if the price was right – £10 p/month for example – let’s face it the content is there and it’s doing nothing in our household so why not allow us access to this service on it’s own and do one over Sky? It would be a WIN WIN situation for VM as by the time Sky’s service arrives they should have a bigger library and be making £10 extra every month per household that takes the service.

Five claim that Virgin will have their on demand service DemandFive will launch early this year.
Could this be one of the “secretive” launches Virgin has promised us, along with the soon to launch ITV OD, this gives us the lot, just like BT Vision.

Date: 13th January 2009

Dear Mr *****

We hope to launch Demand Five on Virgin Media sometime early this year but have no further information that we can provide you with at this time.

If there is anything further we can help you with, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your interest in Five.

Yours sincerely

*****

VIEWER ADVISOR

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas…th-itv-c4.html

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A deal to share iPlayer technology would give ITV, Channel 4 and potentially other broadcasters access to a sophisticated post-production, transcoding and playout system, along with the front-end software that draws together video and audio content from multiple sources. iPlayer is also available on demand on digital cable.

In July this year i had virgin media installed after being told of its ‘amazing‘ Music OD offering says a virgin sales person that came to my door.He siad i could get all my faviouite bands on demand so i named him

Nikelback
Panic At The Disco

he says yeah there all on there i have virgin tv installed only to realise that non of these artists are there but what i dont understand is when it was ntl in 2006 (when i prevously had ntl)i can remember buying a video even have the bill to proove it and it isnt there anymore HOWEVER my friend who is on the L pack gets all these artist at a small fee basicly what am askin is SHOULD I DOWNGRADE MY PACKAGE TO GET BETTER MUSIC after all it was one of my only reasons for joining or can i complain(ask) virgin to see what happens from there maybe a petition as well as this theres no artic monkeys so am not happy atm the sales man told lies tut tut

I’ve been with virgin media for two years now, my boyfriend rang up to set up a direct debit a few weeks back and they offered us a broadband upgrade for £3.50. We took them up on the offer and everything has been fine until today.

We got our bill this morning and they’d overcharged us. We have a 3 for £30 deal and were supposed to be paying an extra £3.50 on top of that. Instead they’ve changed our deal completely so that the whole thing adds up to £47. When we rang up they said theres nothing they can do, so we asked to be put through to the cancellation department and they said we couldn’t cancel because they’ve just signed us up to another 12 month contract.

They won’t listen to us at all now and keep insisting that this is the way it has got to stay for at least 12 months.

if you watch say itv and you nip out the room or watching sky sports and dont want to miss a goal while you nip out the room you would normally press pause on your v+ remote,you can then press play and watch from when you paused and also rewind back again to where you started pause from……tonight i had been watching tv and went to press pause but knocked rewind ….it now seems to rewind form when i put the channel on!!!!! no need to pause it .has it always been like this? it seems to work on all channels

We’ve just had to re-negotiate our current pricing with VM. We’ve walked away with the exact same services as we had before but got the price brought down further however I still feel we’ve maybe been hard done by.

TVXL
BBL
Extra STB
Phoneline.

We’ve walked away paying [after discount is applied] £46.50. Guy reckoned we were now saving £20 buy what he had done.

Does that sound right / a fair deal ?

Published: 25 February 2009 09:52
Last Updated: 25 February 2009 12:19
Author: Robert Shepherd
Direct link: boradcastnow.co.uk

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Virgin Media is to decide on whether to offload its content division imminently, according to reports.

Virgin Media TV, formerly Flextech, comprises a 50% stake in UKTV, the advertising sales unit IDS and channels such as Living and Bravo.

Thought id post this for anyone interested, article goes on to say that it could be as early as Friday that a decision will be made.

Personally i reckon they’ll be willing to sell their UKTV share, but will keep hold of their other channels (Living, V1 etc), along with IDS. Thoughts anyone?

20 meg Broadband
standard telephone
free basic cable tv
all for £32 per month?

We have a V+ box downstairs & a settop box up in the bedroom. Up until about 2 weeks ago we had Sky movies & sports but turned them both off to save a bit of money. Well this morning we found out we can watch sport & movies upstairs but downstairs we’re told we have not subscribed to these channels. Well my hubby is over the moon that we appear to be getting the sport for free, but is there a way of checking if we’re getting charged? I haven’t a clue how it’s happened but it is rather good….if it’s free