I just don't get the need for SD full stop.

Everything will be HD at some point, people who watch HD get used to it and hate the sight of SD broadcasts. We accept it on archive material but live broadcasts shouldn't need to be crippled in such a way.

Likewise. I would watch BBC News to avoid the adverts but I like to hear of news when its breaking, not an hour later and i'm amazed they didn't rollout a full HD service when they moved to the new site.

The BBC News HD channel will start next year along with BBC 3,4, CBBC and Cebeebies in HD

Im still pissed that MTV Classic continues to be excluded from the lineup, surely Viacom are not withholding this channel, its on UPC, Smallwood and Sky.

and Talktalk Youview service.

So when do we reckon Fox and CNN USA are coming in? Could be good especially with the Congress and Senate votes coming up.

It's all gone quiet, I guess we just wait and see what happens.

Sky News HD and Sky sports news HD are reportedly testing on virgin media now along with Disney HD and 2 unknown channels are also testing

Asian channel posted that 2 weeks ago.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?&p=68286777

To be honest i don't believe anything he posts.

Oh come on!!! Do you not think the test slate names are a little bit obscure to be made up?

I don't really want any more sports channels. I'd prefer to have channels such as CNN USA or Fox news. I am probably in the minority I admit.

Fox news? Really?

Same here, it's just a time shifted copy of the original channel



I agree, everything should be HD and it shouldn't cost extra either.

Fox news is entertaining. It's like Sky news on steroids, see what the republicans really want.

25 new channels are rumours to be launching on Virgin Media soon.

Confirmed as launch soon:
•FOX + (On Channel 199)

(Testing on Virgin Media right now):
•Disney HD
•Sky Sports News HD
•Sky News HD
•As well as two other HD Channels unknown says they broadcast on UPC Ireland right now.
•An new Movies Channel and new Music Channel is testing right now (Info from an Virgin Viewer).

Rumours as set to launch by Digital Spy Forum posters:
•CNN USA
•CNN USA HD
•CNN International HD

Virgin are said to be in talks for the following channels:
•More4 HD
•Sky Atlantic
•Sky Atlantic HD
•5 Later
•Sky 3D
•Sky Sports 3 HD
•Sky Sports 4 HD
•Sky Sports F1 HD
•Universal HD
•Sky1 +1
•MTV CLASSIC
•True Movies 2
•Movies4Men
•Sony Movies Channel
•Movies and Men
•Chart Show TV
•Bliss
•Scuzz
•Heart FM TV
•True Movies HD

Sadly no talking for History HD or MGM HD channels coming to virgin.

And here's why Virgin get a bad reputation. The same garbage repeated over and over that forum readers take it as fact.

I know you have just copied and pasted it from another forum, so this isn't aimed at you personally, but there's no chance of Virgin launching the 25 of those in the near future.

Hear, Hear I agree

What makes you so sure of that? Look how many launches VM have done already this year. FOX+ will be coming somepoint this month apparantly along with DisneyHD and DisneyxdHD.
Other channels are launching throughout Autumn. I don't think we'll see all of them on the list before the end of this year but i think most of them will launch.

Cost for one. Even if they offer all of them a tiny amount - say 3p per subscriber per channel per month they would have to raise their prices around £1 a month to cover it. And let's be honest some of those channels will command values much higher than that.

Sky similarly may have been willing to strike a deal if BT didn't do a deal for Virgin XL and that would have been some loose change to work with however that doesn't apply now. Indeed they are paying out more to BT than they did on ESPN.

The channels quoted as testing aren't testing on the wider network only FOX+ is.

I'm the first to stick up for Virgin wherever possible however this ludicrous thread on CF is giving Virgin a bad name by giving readers unrealistic expectations for the near future. Then we get people moaning about how Virgin are rubbish for not providing a service they never claimed they would offer.

You could make anything up, post it here, someone posts it to CF and it ends up in that thread despite being absolutely baseless.

I think some will be surprised when they see what has been agreed in the Sky deal when it is announced. This on its own will add some popular channels to our screens.

5 Later, More 4 HD, Disney HD and Fox + will also arrive soon.

MGM is not on tvmad's list but I think this may also arrive before much longer.

Not sure about the rest of that list though - I don't know where the evidence to support this comes from.

Where's the evidence of a Sky deal?

The deal is not done yet as far as I know but talks on this began a few months ago (see the broadcastnow site). Sources have explained that a deal is now close, and that we are likely to get rather more than just Sky Atlantic/HD.

Relationships with Sky have improved of late, and the recent multi million pound fibre deal is likely to feature in getting an agreement on this annoying little problem that continues to bug Virgin Media viewers.

Trust me Sky Atlantic is coming to Virgin i guarentee it will be here this Autumn amongst others.
Many par parred about BT Sport , look what happened infact i know a deal is very close to being struck between Sky and Virgin part of the agreement is Sky using part of VMs network. I can't say anything more than that for obvious reasons but a lot of people are in for a surprise.

Obvious reasons? If you are party to an NDA you have already broken it. This is just the same rumours, nudges and winks we have had for years on this and the other forum.

If you look back I was actually optimistic about some kind of BT deal, and was the first to confirm 4 (albeit nameless because they were broadcasting under "Test") channels testing on the network.

I do accept that the relationship appears to be improving, but it's a bit foolish of VM to put pen to paper on a deal on one hand (the fibre deal) and not strike a deal there and then on the other issues.

It's my belief the BT deal reduces Sky's interest in bringing Atlantic and all the listed HD channels to Virgin.