upc interactive and on-demand

dunworth1

Does Anyone Know When Interactive Services And On-demand Will Be Available In Limerick City

MartMax

no body knows... if it happens, it has to get to Dublin first thou...

dunworth1

mart_max wrote: »

no body knows... if it happens, it has to get to Dublin first thou...

why does it have to be in dublin first chorus is based in limerick

dunworth1

mart_max wrote: »

no body knows... if it happens, it has to get to Dublin first thou...

why does it have to be in dublin first chorus is based in limerick

Mossy Monk

mart_max wrote: »

no body knows... if it happens, it has to get to Dublin first thou...

Why does it have to go to Dublin first?

who is this

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Why does it have to go to Dublin first?

Cause UPC's largest market is Dublin. Is it not obvious from the fact that the DVR launched there first?

CO19

dunworth1 wrote: »

why does it have to be in dublin first chorus is based in limerick

NTL's call center is in Limerick,their base is still in Dublin.

Solair

Doesn't necessarily follow that Dublin will see the earliest rollouts of every new product or service from UPC.

The reason the ex NTL areas got the DVRs first was possibly technical, the ex NTL network was less 'weird' than most of the ex Chorus networks. There has been considerable improvements in Cork and Limerick's cable systems in the last while and Chorus projects that had been stopped half-way and abandoned were completed. They were not in as good a shape as the NTL stuff, although that wasn't in great shape either!

Chorus had all sorts of grand plans and rolled out cable phones and various broadband projects in the early days then ran out of money and got badly stuck.

I'd say you'll see more balanced regional roll outs from this point on as they get the headend and cable networks standardised.

Mossy Monk

who is this wrote: »

Is it not obvious from the fact that the DVR launched there first?

I would not say it is obvious at all.

boomerang

Robert Dunn says 2009.

yayamark

CO19 wrote: »

NTL's call center is in Limerick,their base is still in Dublin.

Call centre hah thats all it is. You just call it thats it! no more no less.

CO19

yayamark wrote: »

Call centre hah thats all it is. You just call it thats it! no more no less.

,True

steveon

who is this wrote: »

Cause UPC's largest market is Dublin. Is it not obvious from the fact that the DVR launched there first?

The DVR was released in both cork and dublin at the same time and was actually tested in Limerick by me long before UPC ever even bought NTL out in Dublin. The reason it was released in Dublin first was due to the fact that they upgraded the NTL networks to initialise there software fully first. The reason it hasn't been released fully in Limerick is UPC are over budget on there upgrades and its taking longer than expected due to under-investment over the yrs.

The dvr is a nice piece of kit and worth the wait if you really want one. But I would prefer to own the equipment rather than pay an extra €5 a month

dunworth1

steveon wrote: »

The DVR was released in both cork and dublin at the same time and was actually tested in Limerick by me long before UPC ever even bought NTL out in Dublin. The reason it was released in Dublin first was due to the fact that they upgraded the NTL networks to initialise there software fully first. The reason it hasn't been released fully in Limerick is UPC are over budget on there upgrades and its taking longer than expected due to under-investment over the yrs.

The dvr is a nice piece of kit and worth the wait if you really want one. But I would prefer to own the equipment rather than pay an extra €5 a month

its cool i love beenin able to pause and rewind live tv

and i agree with u about owning it

paulm17781

steveon wrote: »

The reason it was released in Dublin first was due to the fact that they upgraded the NTL networks to initialise there software fully first.

Well, that and it's the biggest market. A nationwide roll out is always preferable but I would always start with the biggest places.

Del2005

steveon wrote: »

The dvr is a nice piece of kit and worth the wait if you really want one. But I would prefer to own the equipment rather than pay an extra €5 a month

Are we not paying €5 for the service not the box? Sky where charging a lot more for Sky+ when that 1st came out and you owned the box.

Mossy Monk

Mr.S wrote: »

really hope we get it soon, the on demand stuff is pritty good! and Virgin Media's "catch up TV on demand" thing is very handy! (basically has all the popular shows available to watch at any time for free)

What Virgin provides has nothing to do with UPC. I wouldn't use Virgin Media as a benchmark.

Solair

paulm17781 wrote: »

Well, that and it's the biggest market. A nationwide roll out is always preferable but I would always start with the biggest places.

That's not usually the case, it's far better to start a trial in a small contained area. Ideally a single town or suburb of one of the cities.

Rolling out right across a whole city isn't an easy task.

Also, unlike the DVR interactivity and broadband require 2-way cable infrastructure and decent bandwidth. So, it's more likely that the interactive services will roll out on areas of the cable network (both ex NTL and ex Chorus) where there is good infrastructure i.e. the newly re-wired areas of Dublin, Cork etc.

The network's changed quite a lot to the level that there is really no longer a divide between Chorus and NTL but rather between Cable and Chorus MMDS. The digital cable networks (chorus and NTL) and the ex NTL MMDS areas use DVB-C, and should be relatively compatible and easy to merge.

Chorus Digital MMDS uses DVB-T (Digital Terrestrial) technology similar to freeview/topup TV only operating on MMDS frequencies.

You'll possibly find that this is the platform that will have late launches as it will require different equipment to the rest of the network.

deanh

I recently posted about subtitling appearing on the UK. terrestial channels on digital cable in Cork. It only appeared on three afternoons until about 5pm. I had not pressed text or the subtitle button on the remote control. AFAIK. this could have been a trial of interactive services. Other posters have suggested that UPC are about to change all set top boxes to support interactive/ VOD. services . It would make commercial sense to do this as Sky would find it difficult to match video on demand services (lack of two-way communication between the satelite and set-top box).

CRAIG07

has this been announced i havent herd anything about it. if it has when will it happen. I am seriously thinking of changing to sky i can everything i have now and more for just €28 a month with them and their sky+ box is a million times better than the upc dvr !!!

Rosser

CRAIG07 wrote: »

has this been announced i havent herd anything about it. if it has when will it happen. I am seriously thinking of changing to sky i can everything i have now and more for just €28 a month with them and their sky+ box is a million times better than the upc dvr !!!

The sky+ box is some what better, actually some what more developed than the UPC dvr but that's as far as it goes.

CRAIG07

the service they provide is better 2 and i would get so many more channels than i do now for just €28. I will say that the sky+ box is expensive at €149 though

Charlie

CRAIG07 wrote: »

the service they provide is better 2 and i would get so many more channels than i do now for just €28. I will say that the sky+ box is expensive at €149 though

Believe me, €149 is not expensive, its a bargain in fact from all the use you'll get out of it.

People seem to think that when it comes to digital tv equipment anything over €1 is expensive, yet when a duff DVD recorder is on sale in Aldi for €150 its proclaimed as a bargain.

DVR's are great, but UPC's pales in comparison to Sky's.

CRAIG07

ya i will prob change need to wait till march because i wont be with them a year till then i will be availing of a great offer to get a free sky+ box two so i just cant wait to get it !!!!

dunworth1

anyone hear any thing more about the interactive and on-demand from upc

Rosser

boomerang wrote: »

Robert Dunn says 2009.

Robert Dunne says a lot, unfortunately not much of it happens (at least not on time)