Sky Sports 3 HD and Sky Sports 4 HD on Virgin Media?
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Does anyone know why Virgin Media has not got SS3HD & SS4HD?
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because at this time i would suspect,Sky want to keep these channels for themselves,but that just my opinion,hopefully now that VM and Sky seem to be on good terms with each other,eventually they will share all the goodies
My guess is that sky would keep them exclusive at least for the first few months of the football season .
Yeah, Sky way to go - wave the fancier cheese outside the hole and they will come out.... not when we've got ok cheese and other extra nibbles too!
Did I maybe overdo that metaphor just a tad??
I think you mean retentions!!
At the weekend, Sky were running an ad camapign in the papers, that specifically made the point that all five HD sports channels would only be on Sky and that Virgin would have just two.
I would give it at least a year, or they'll get in trouble with the ASA.
I expect as Sky News HD has a totally different on screen appearance to the SD version, SSN will take the same approach.
Does it make the news any better?
:yawn:
Yes, greatly. My friends now watch more news (Sky News HD) because of the HD version. Just what HD is all about - more information and more detail. They even made a promo about it.
just a quick question reguarding SS HD ON Virgin, I just got in touch with Virgin in respect of the SS HD channels and asked to have them put on my box, but they told me that I MUST have the SD Versions as well as the HD Versions is this right ?????? .
if this is the case what's the point of having to have the SD versions when all I will want to watch is the HD Versions I guess this is yet another money making scheme . :mad:
Why would you watch more news just because its in HD if you like the news as i do, i would watch it to catch up on current affairs anyway still the same news only difference is the picture.! I also listen to the radio frequently wether its DAB or ordinary radio the news is the same,unless they commit special crimes to be shown in HD only.:D
its exactly the same rule with Sky,you have to subscribe to the SD versions to get the HD versions,the reasoning being that it would be unfair to someone who pays 20.50-26.00 for the SD versions for someone to pay 7.00 and get the same channels in HD without paying the SD price
Sky have been doing this for years successfully! and now in order the get the sports HD channels they now make virgin do the same. its is pure greed in my view but there you go.
Surely if their channels were available on all platforms they'd lose subscribers if anything?
Because VM hasn't got the runny egg with the two extra bread soldiers.:yawn: Sky are keeping the runny egg sky breakfast to themselves.:sleep:
So are Sky already playing 'silly buggers' with us?
Any thoughts?
I have some thoughts;) Live Golf is on sky sports 1 HD
And sky sports 2 HD has the tennis on.
Not all of us subcribe for the football you know! funny as it may sound;),When the main football season starts the premiership will be on sky sports 1 HD so no i do not think sky are playing anybody around at the moment.
But they will put as much on SS3/4 as they can get away with, which means a fair few Football League games (SS3) and the SPL (SS4).
Actually, for accuracy the golf is on HD1 this evening 'smartypants'
I know just corrected my posting.:p
Main point was though not all of us sub for the football although you would think from all the posts we all did,myself not too keen on the football.;)
Because of the side panels. The graphics are differently placed as well which allows you to keep up more on information. Not just because it's in HD, but because of all this extra information. Can't wait for SNHD.
I wasn't talking about the presentation.
It was the content.
ie does bad news look good?
The picture does have more of a HD look through the HD box, though. I watched it and the picture was certainly better than it would have been through the SD box.
I just wish SSN was on HD, cos I watch that a lot and as has been said, the whole presentation is different, not just the quality of the picture.And I watch Soccer Saturday and that's only on SSN now.