TTILE MEANT TO READ WHO ARE YOU LISTENING TO??
What is the last music video you listiened to via your music on demand
Curios as to what people are listening to at the moment 
As the title ask’s, what channels or service would you like to see on Virgin media catch up?
I’d like:
* Deman Five
&
* Sky Player (even if its just a limited version).
Or are you like me and don’t even check it anymore. I’m so bored of the HD ‘content’ and i’ve only used it twice in the last few months and both of those were to watch Peep show again!
Seeing as VM state huge figures for on demand, yet this forum is quiet most of the time, and the only threads are to moan about lack of content or mixed up seasons and episodes missing. I’m wondering how much people can actually get out of the service.
So how often do you use it and when was the last time?
With a shiny new forum and a use it or loose it threat I thought it would be interesting to find out what people are watching or what hidden gems they have found via CUTVOD.
To start the ball rolling I discovered Peep Show, Studio 60, punkd and Criminal Minds via OD – I completly missed these when they were first shown on linear TV and would never have seen them were it not for VOD
I have also enjoyed watching Sopranos, Curb you Enthusiasm, DS9 and V the Series again. The BBC HD stuff is spectacular.
Hi folks
I’m looking for some help!
I’m doing some background work on VoD and IPTV and wonder if anyone can provide me with some screen shots/pictures of Virgin’s Catch-Up and VoD system – basically the front pages from the main menu’s and the screen shot when you go to play something back.
Anyone’s help would be very much appreciated 
Recently the bbc Iplayer introduced a series catch up feature on the menu. When selected i get no content at all nor does a neighbour and nor did the engineer to visited to see the problem (he called his office and got someone to check in guildford) .
Anyone got this problem? If you do it might be good to report it on 151 as they seem to think that me. my neighbour and thier local guildford office are the only ones who have the problem. Extra complaints (genuine of course!) may help them focus on resolving the issue.
left with?
Do they collect the box and if they do not do they leave you with the basic digi channels?
ITV2/ITV3/ITV4/BBC3/BBC4/BBC News/Sky news etc.
i dont know if your like me but i find sky movies pretty repetitive.If given the chance would you pay a monthly fee for unlimited on demand films? maybe same price as sky movies?
this would probably only make virgin money if they pay a set fee for each film they carry rather than per view.virgin would then make money from this where as they make nothing from sky movies
Would you “happily” pay £9.99 for your box? I believe that the liquidators should have priced the boxes at this level and my argument for this is set out below.
Grant Thornton is legally obliged to recover as much money as possible for creditors. However I think that it is possible that in pricing the offer at £39.99 they have made a serious error of judgement. I understand that of the 1 million boxes “lent” to customers by ITV Digital around half are thought to be in use. I would very much doubt that more than 10% of existing users, i.e. 50,000 people, can be persuaded to pay £40 for an obsolete and unsupported box. If they achieve this they would recover £2m.
They would also be faced with the costs of collecting and storing around 950,000 boxes from a largely disgruntled and un-cooperative set of users. An optimistic figure for the costs of doing this would be £4m i.e. around £4 per box. If they are very lucky and persistent they may physically recover around 750,000 boxes. They will then be able to “sell the debt” on the un-recovered 200,000 boxes to debt collection companies for around £5 per user recovering around £1m
The unknown factor in all of this is what they can obtain for their stated intention of selling the recovered boxes wholesale to companies such as Dixons to re-furbish and resell to the general public. Probably around one third of the boxes will be in such poor condition that they can not economically be re-furbished. They will probably hope to sell the remaining 500,000 to Dixons etc for around £10 for them to re-furbish and sell to the public for around £40. If successful this would raise around £5m for the liquidators.
Thus, on a highly optimistic view, the total net sum recovered by the administrators would be £8m less £4 recovery costs = £4m, less their own considerable expenses and fees for managing and carrying our the work of, say £0.5m, a final net sum of £3.5m. As the ONdigital debt is £1.24bn this will raise 0.28 pence in the pound for the ONdigital creditors. Not a great return, particularly for Carlton and Granada considering the additional loss of goodwill that this move is causing them. This will only get a lot worse when the debt collection agencies swing into action.
In practice the situation is likely to be a lot worse for the liquidators. It is true that used ex ITV digital boxes are still selling, in very small numbers, on eBay for £40-£70. However if large numbers are brought onto the market next year, selling against a good supply of new boxes the price will drop like a stone and they will probably become uneconomic to refurbish after the first 100,000 or so have been sold. This would take £4 out of the figures above and leave the liquidators with a net £0.5m loss on the exercise. They could however avoid this loss by abandoning the collection of boxes when it becomes uneconomic and this is what will probably happen.
A much better and less risky strategy would have been to offer the users the boxes at £9.99. The users would still not have been thrilled by this but it would probably have achieved an 80% plus take-up from active users, say 400,000, raising £4m. A token effort to collect boxes from cooperative users who want to return them and to threaten the others with debt collectors would probably break even at least, and there would not be too much sympathy with those who would not pay £10.
This situation would be better all round for all concerned including, crucially, the Freeview service, which is unconnected with this but still could suffer some short term damage.
My argument only holds up if 80%+ would pay the £9.99. I would, would you?
I don’t own a box but if I way a pre pay subscriber and say was owned £70 by ITV Digital then I think you should draft a letter asking for your money back.
If they say no then you should say that you are one of the people who are owed money from Grant Thornton and as there is NO HIERACRICHAL order in who gets paid first from Grant Thornton, and that you will gladly under write what you are owed from Grant Thornton (£70) if they under write the cost of the box (£40).
It is basically called underwriting and if you are owed more than £40 you can underwrite what you are owed with what they value the box.
So basically if you took out on ITV Digital Pre Pay box and it closed before the 12 months of pre pay was used up and the money lost to you is over £40 then you should do what is said above.