Virgin Customers To Lose UKTV Channels...

Virgin Customers To Lose UKTV Channels...

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nelly1

Original Poster:

5,630 posts

230 months

Thursday 19th July 2018
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They kept this quiet... Clicky...

Article said:
Virgin Media’s four million pay-TV customers face being unable to watch UKTV's ten channels, which include Dave, Gold and Drama, from Sunday as a dispute over video on demand rights to shows comes to a head.
Edited by nelly1 on Thursday 19th July 20:52

Turn7

23,502 posts

220 months

Thursday 19th July 2018
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Virgin are fast becoming as big a bunch of shysters as the other lot of late.

Been a VM customer since Beardies days od Dial up, but am fast becoming a disgruntled user.

I cant leave as Im in contract, but YOU can out the prices up during that contract.....bla bla bla

Only really need Eurosport for Bike racing tbh.

nelly1

Original Poster:

5,630 posts

230 months

Thursday 19th July 2018
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But you can still watch them on FREEVIEW!

WTAF?!?

irocfan

40,153 posts

189 months

Thursday 19th July 2018
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reading that it does seem that V are being pillocks - BBC aren't exactly blameless though

Saleen836

11,061 posts

208 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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According to Virgin it is what their customers want..
http://www.virginmedia.com/shop/tv/tvupdate.html

If you switch to any of the channels that is being lost you get a pop up informing you what it is being replaced with.

Shiv_P

2,725 posts

104 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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For fks sake where am I supposed to watch top gear reruns now?

V8covin

7,213 posts

192 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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I'm fine with the changes.
I don't watch any of those channels and 1 of the new channels is Quest in HD which is good news for us supporters of championship football teams.
As an aside have you noticed when you switch to a SD channel that has an HD equivalent a pop up comes on screen to press the blue button to switch to the HD channel ?

AshVX220

5,929 posts

189 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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V8covin said:
I'm fine with the changes.
I don't watch any of those channels and 1 of the new channels is Quest in HD which is good news for us supporters of championship football teams.
As an aside have you noticed when you switch to a SD channel that has an HD equivalent a pop up comes on screen to press the blue button to switch to the HD channel ?
I don't know why the box isn't more intelligent with this. Here in the US (I'm with a provider called Spectrum) when I select a channel it will show the HD version anyway.

P-Jay

10,551 posts

190 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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No, not Dave?! Where am I going to go to see an 8 year old episode of Topgear or QI now?

I can’t remember the last time I tuned into Dave, and I didn’t really know the other channels existed.

TommoAE86

2,659 posts

126 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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At first I was going to get grumpy at VM but really I don't want much TV anymore let alone UKTV channels. The article mentions that the BBC is selling it's stuff to Steaming services and not letting VM have them (is that right?) hence why VM are throwing it's toys out the pram? Hopefully this means that more than 3 seasons will come to Netflix? It's annoying that I only have 3 seasons of each Mock the Week and QI which would be nice.

The only channel I'd really miss is Yesterday to be honest that has some interesting shows with nothing of the same quality on other channels.

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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nelly1 said:
They kept this quiet... Clicky...

Article said:
Virgin Media’s four million pay-TV customers face being unable to watch UKTV's ten channels, which include Dave, Gold and Drama, from Sunday as a dispute over video on demand rights to shows comes to a head.
Edited by nelly1 on Thursday 19th July 20:52
That didn't appear on my annoyingly named "Value Statement" irked

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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Can't say I watch any UKTV channels these days and I doubt I'll watch any of the ones replacing them either!

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leggly

1,780 posts

210 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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As we’re between houses at the moment, we’re trying to use Talk Talk internet at my fathers house. Virgin Media is worth it just for the internet speeds. Sod Dave and the rest of UKTV. biggrin

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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leggly said:
As we’re between houses at the moment, we’re trying to use Talk Talk internet at my fathers house. Virgin Media is worth it just for the internet speeds. Sod Dave and the rest of UKTV. biggrin
Yep, had Virgin for donkeys years and never had an issue with the internet, and as for losing these channels; oh well I can't say I've ever watched them.

Had great customer service off Virgin last week; rang them on Tuesday with an issue with the second box in the house which is in my daughters room; a TiVo box, which has been playing up, an engineer was arranged for next day in the afternoon up to 19:00, had 2 phone calls (one from the engineer and the other from his office) at 18:30 to say he was running late but would be there, he arrived at about 19:30, he turned the box on and said it was knackered, produced a TV6 Box (already have one downstairs), subsequently spent over an hour setting it up (poor bloke) and he had another job to go to.

I almost had a second TV6 box added when we changed our package a few months back but they wanted £50 and an additional £7.50 per month, this new box was free and there is no additional monthly charge for it.

Jordan210

4,503 posts

182 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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gareth_r said:
The list of so called new channels. Is a load of old channels moving channel numbers

RDM

1,860 posts

206 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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Looks like virgin are adding premier Sports free as a
Replacement


Yes! That’s the channel showing the rugby

Free for two months

Until the start of the rugby season!

Hub

6,413 posts

197 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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If the channels are on Freeview then surely there isn't a problem - unless people tend to bin their TV aerials when they get Virgin?

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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It is rather dramatic to remove all these channels.

As an aside, how do I run ordinary TV through my TV AND keep watching through Virgin at the same time?

gareth_r

5,712 posts

236 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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Eric Mc said:
It is rather dramatic to remove all these channels.

As an aside, how do I run ordinary TV through my TV AND keep watching through Virgin at the same time?
Just plug in an aerial or satellite as normal.

Use the TV remote to switch between the TV and the TiVo input.


Hub said:
If the channels are on Freeview then surely there isn't a problem - unless people tend to bin their TV aerials when they get Virgin?
This is true... except for "Gold", "Alibi", "W", "Eden", and "Good Food".

https://corporate.uktv.co.uk/about-uktv/article/ou...


Jordan210 said:
The list of so called new channels is a load of old channels moving channel numbers
There are a few new channels. I'm particularly interested in "Horse & Country". smile

Edited by gareth_r on Saturday 21st July 14:14