High Definition

[cossack]

When is Virgin putting on more High Definition channels especially Itv I am new to cable and it seems to me there is no get up and go within the company to keep viewers for the long term.

[EvilBoB]

When is Virgin putting on more High Definition channels especially Itv I am new to cable and it seems to me there is no get up and go within the company to keep viewers for the long term.

HD is still relatively new in the broadcast industry in the UK. There will be more channels added soon I'm sure but all broadcasters are keeping tight lipped about it all.

ITVHD is pretty rubbish so don't get your hopes up too much. They only show a few programs a week in HD and have a lot of issues. Sound synch, forgetting to turn on the HD broadcast, cutting off halfway through a show and much more. ITVHD seems to be more of a trial than a real offering.

[Rick Sanchez]

they are probably waiting on their new Tivo boxes

[furrry]

Found this info

Virgin Media have announced today that their cable digital TV customers will be able to watch this years World Cup in full High Definition as the ITV1 HD channel joins Virgin Media’s TV line-up on April 2nd. All matches in this years World Cup will be shown on ITV1 HD or the BBC’s HD channel.
ITV1 HD will also be showing other High Definition programming, with upcoming highlights including the UEFA Champions League, The FA Cup, and England internationals; HD dramas including Father & Son, Identity, The Prisoner, Foyles War and Lewis; factual programming including Joanna Lumley’s Nile, Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones, and the brand new Survival with Ray Mears. In entertainment there are new programmes, The Whole 19 Yards and 71 Degrees North, and the return of Soccer Aid and the UK’s biggest TV show, Britain’s Got Talent.


Virgin Media is expanding its HD lineup and states that the following HD channels are yet to come; Eurosport, Discovery and E4 will be added to the ‘XL’ tier this spring, while Film4 HD will be made available within all paid-for TV tiers.

[bobo06]

http://www.digital-forums.com/showthread.php?t=785894

[TAR]

I phoned virgin and asked them why they didn't broadcast sky sports and movies in HD, he told me it was cause sky wanted too much money. So it looks like they won't be broadcasting them any time soon.[HIDE-THANKS][/HIDE-THANKS]

[cossack]

Thanks for all your replies, I was just about giving up on them.

[salim]

I was given the same routine by them, about some Hd channels coming soon.
But I remember "soon" was what they said about sky1!

So i went off to sky. The picture quality on the non hd stuff seems better than the same channel on VM. I assume maybe VM are using more compression

[littlebilly1]

In the recent sale of living, bravo, challenge channels to sky I'm sure I read somewhere that part of the negotiation process involved sky allowing vm to broadcast some of sky's premium hd content, and also allowing vm customers to have some of sky's red button features,


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[salim]

Yes the sky sales said that to me as well, but she said that sky will not be giving all the SKY hd stuff to VM!

Always a catch I assume, Ive signed up for a year with 2 boxes. So will see what bargains are available in a year

[Conkers]

Sky sports & movies HD announced... £7 per month

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...y-premium.html

Forgot to add.. this is available now.