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#751 |
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TV XL is £24.50 so £7 cheaper than Sky's equivalent and includes library content, 32 HD channels (from end of April) and 7000 on demand music videos.
Sky EE+ and a PVR is £31.50 with Sky Atlantic and over 45 HD Channels. There's very little between them in price anymore, even less so when ESPN closes. Both are pretty good value though but i'd personally rather spend £2 more for Atlantic and many more HD channels than music videos but I guess it's horses for courses. I suppose another consideration is if you're a premium channel customer which I think are a fair bit cheaper with Sky, sadly I rather suspect Sky Sports customers are heading for pretty big price hikes whatever platform they view on
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and S4C channels changes being that TLC will be on Channel Number 167 and S4C will be moved elsewhere?
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35562371-post599.html |
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#753 |
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Without a PVR it is, with a PVR it's £29.50 which I would hazard a guess most new customers would choose. It's worth noting that the VM prices require a phoneline too otherwise XL is actually more expensive than Sky Entertainment Extra+, either with or without a PVR.
Sky EE+ and a PVR is £31.50 with Sky Atlantic and over 45 HD Channels. There's very little between them in price anymore, even less so when ESPN closes. Both are pretty good value though but i'd personally rather spend £2 more for Atlantic and many more HD channels than music videos but I guess it's horses for courses. I suppose another consideration is if you're a premium channel customer which I think are a fair bit cheaper with Sky, sadly I rather suspect Sky Sports customers are heading for pretty big price hikes whatever platform they view on ![]() Yes I'm aware of all that. You made reference to the bundled £29.50 (XL TV & TiVo) price to which I responded to, not the unbundled XL TV & TiVo price you're now referring to. To correct you I pointed out that the bundled price of XL TV is only £24.50 whether you have a TiVo or not, and therefore £7 cheaper than EE+. If we're comparing like for like then to get any OD content with EE+ (one of its main features) you'd need a landline and BB meaning you'd be paying considerably more than the £31.50 quoted. You'd only need to add VM phone/BB to bring the price of XL TV down to £24.50, EE+ remains at £31.50 with phone and BB. Most TiVo customers choose a Collection which doesn't have a £5 fee attached to it. And those still with a V+ don't pay a PVR fee. Personally I wouldn't consider 13 more HD channels to be many more or good value over thousands of OD music videos especially if I had access to the same content those HD channels are showing, even if in SD. |
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Yes I'm aware of all that. You made reference to the bundled £29.50 (XL TV & TiVo) price to which I responded to, not the unbundled XL TV & TiVo price you're now referring to. To correct you I pointed out that the bundled price of XL TV is only £24.50 whether you have a TiVo or not, and therefore £7 cheaper than EE+.
If we're comparing like for like then to get any OD content with EE+ (one of its main features) you'd need a landline and BB meaning you'd be paying considerably more than the £31.50 quoted. You'd only need to add VM phone/BB to bring the price of XL TV down to £24.50, EE+ remains at £31.50 with phone and BB. Most TiVo customers choose a Collection which doesn't have a £5 fee attached to it. And those still with a V+ don't pay a PVR fee. Personally I wouldn't consider 13 more HD channels to be many more or good value over thousands of OD music videos especially if I had access to the same content those HD channels are showing, even if in SD. Music Videos and Atlantic aside if VM can get BT Sport in XL then that would be a genuine game changer for many people, in my opinion |
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not sure why bt sport in xl would be a game changer, it has less premiership football than the first year of espn end of setanta which was in xl, most of the other sports were already available to xl viewers. it might stop people leaving for bt from cable rather than adsl supplied areas.
cable is sort of half way between bt and sky with regard to content, with a platform advantage of sorts only in cabled areas. |
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not sure why bt sport in xl would be a game changer, it has less premiership football than the first year of espn end of setanta which was in xl, most of the other sports were already available to xl viewers. it might stop people leaving for bt from cable rather than adsl supplied areas.
cable is sort of half way between bt and sky with regard to content, with a platform advantage of sorts only in cabled areas. If the package also had BT Sport it would be a great package but most people seem to think there's little chance of that happening. |
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#757 |
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Virgin Shorts launched on channel 399
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Virgin Shorts launched on channel 399
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Coming soon slates have been added for the remaining Zee TV channels to launch on VM.
Zee Cafe on 811 Zing on 813 Also another HD channel should be coming soon too, NHK World HD on 625. |
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Surprising that NHK World HD will be the first HD news channel to launch on Virgin. I would have said Sky News HD and Sky Sports News HD or the Turner owned CNN HD which launches on satellite in june. I wonder what channel 623 will be used for.
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this just gets better!
Zee Cafe for anyone interested does show live cricket. If anyone's interested in that. NHK World is not a bad news channel at all. Whats left then that sky has VM dont? I can't think of many.... |
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this just gets better!
Zee Cafe for anyone interested does show live cricket. If anyone's interested in that. NHK World is not a bad news channel at all. Whats left then that sky has VM dont? I can't think of many.... |
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New channels:
TLC - 167 TLC HD - 168 TLC +1 - 169 I.D. +1 - 215 NHK World TV HD - 625 (starts tomorrow) Channels closed: Discovery Realtime - 271 Realtime +1 - 272 Travel & Living - 273 |
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Animal Planet HD now available on channel 217.
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Military History has been rebranded as H2 on channel 236.
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Discovery Home & Health has moved to channel 271.
Discovery Home & Health +1 has moved to channel 272 Discovery Travel & Living has been removed from channel 273. Discovery Shed has moved to channel 273. |
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History +1 now on channel 235
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History +1 now on channel 235
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EPG reshuffle:
Comedy Central +1 has moved from 134 to 133 MTV has moved from 311 to 134 Comedy Central HD has moved from 133 to 181 Comedy Central Extra has moved from 185 to 182 MTV Live HD has moved from 310 to 311 MTV Hits has moved from 317 to 312 MTV Base has moved from 315 to 313 MTV Rocks has moved from 325 to 315 VH1 has moved from 320 to 316 VIVA has moved from 313 to 317 |
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I wouldn't be surprised if Comedy Central Extra + 1, MTV HD , MTV +1 launch soon in the 180s. Also suggests they plan to launch MTV Live on 310.
Maybe they will use 308 and 309 for MTV Music & MTV Classic. |
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it would have made more sense to have it as
Syfy 134 - Syfy +1 135 - Syfy HD 136 rather than shifting MTV |
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Also suggests they plan to launch MTV Live on 310.
Maybe they will use 308 and 309 for MTV Music & MTV Classic. |
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it would have made more sense to have it as
Syfy 134 - Syfy +1 135 - Syfy HD 136 rather than shifting MTV |
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EPG reshuffle:
Comedy Central +1 has moved from 134 to 133 MTV has moved from 311 to 134 Comedy Central HD has moved from 133 to 181 Comedy Central Extra has moved from 185 to 182 MTV Live HD has moved from 310 to 311 MTV Hits has moved from 317 to 312 MTV Base has moved from 315 to 313 MTV Rocks has moved from 325 to 315 VH1 has moved from 320 to 316 VIVA has moved from 313 to 317 MTV Dance has moved from 319 to 314. Which actually was one on the first in the sequence of changes, I missed that in the copy / paste. |
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I wish we could change the order of the channels to suit ourselves.
I would put all the channels I watch the most at the front and channels such as the ones with programmes about embarrassing bodies and the guy with the wiggly worms coming out of his scalp at the back of the listings.
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