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UPC chit chat with UPC person on radio NOW!

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  • #32
    surf board
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭surf board


    I see upc already have a mobile app for remote record in the Netherlands. Called Opnemen, (Dutch for record). It was only released there in December but already has been downloaded more than 40,000 times. Why not here though?


  • #33
    Mick_OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭Mick_OB


    I read an article some months ago that ITV where changing strategy and would be promoting their HD offering. This is probably one of the reasons why UPC lost the ITV channels. ITV have realised that they can make extra money with their HD channels and as a result, ITV have made their HD channels available on the SKY HD pack. A condition of this is that their standard channels are exclusive to Sky, which would explain why UPC lost them. As for the lose of channels on UPC, they could have easily replaced these by now.


  • #34
    el dude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭el dude


    Why all the angst over losing a few ITV channels? What was on them that i was missing?


  • #35
    Tarquin1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭Tarquin1970


    el dude wrote: »
    Why all the angst over losing a few ITV channels? What was on them that i was missing?

    Seems like a lot of people are missing the repeats of Midsummer Murders and Celebrity Juice, and have used it as a stick to beat UPC with.


  • #36
    Ranicand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Ranicand


    Tarquin1970 wrote: »
    Seems like a lot of people are missing the repeats of Midsummer Murders and Celebrity Juice, and have used it as a stick to beat UPC with.

    Digital TV is about choice I like to channel hop until I find something I want to watch.

    The ITV channels are not an excuse for people to beat UPC.

    If UPC add on a load of UKTV channels or the CBS channels instead I will be a happy bunny.

    Losing the ITV channels was not UPCs fault.
    They have not been replaced yet that is UPCs fault.

    Edit I am too busy for the hassle of changing TV provider right now.
    I just got faster broadband for an extra €1 per month and I will wait to see what these five channels are.

    One thing I loved about UPC was the extra BBC channels on the EPG well Sky has these from Thursday.

    BBC 1 HD was a nice little add on.


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  • #37
    Tarquin1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭Tarquin1970


    I agree Ranicand, I like the choice, and I trust that they may eventually provide replacement channels but I think that they have taken a different path recently. All of their focus is now trained on the BB Market.


  • #38
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,497 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    Tarquin1970 wrote: »
    I agree Ranicand, I like the choice, and I trust that they may eventually provide replacement channels but I think that they have taken a different path recently. All of their focus is now trained on the BB Market.

    That is hardly surprising, the BB and phone services is where all their growth is currently coming from. Also it and very affordable triple play bundles are the advantages they have over Sky, so it makes a lot of sense for them to focus on those advantages.

    However I agree they need to work harder to close the gap with Sky on TV services.


  • #39
    Tarquin1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭Tarquin1970


    bk wrote: »
    That is hardly surprising, the BB and phone services is where all their growth is currently coming from. Also it and very affordable triple play bundles are the advantages they have over Sky, so it makes a lot of sense for them to focus on those advantages.

    However I agree they need to work harder to close the gap with Sky on TV services.

    And I'd be all over a triple play bundle with HD only they don't have phone service or HD in my area....and can't give me a date when they will, despite it being in estates all around us. I also think that sky know this as they had a couple of reps doing door to door yesterday evening offering tailor made deals.


  • #40
    gertechhaha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭gertechhaha


    Ranicand wrote: »
    Digital TV is about choice I like to channel hop until I find something I want to watch.

    The ITV channels are not an excuse for people to beat UPC.

    If UPC add on a load of UKTV channels or the CBS channels instead I will be a happy bunny.

    Losing the ITV channels was not UPCs fault.
    They have not been replaced yet that is UPCs fault.

    Edit I am too busy for the hassle of changing TV provider right now.
    I just got faster broadband for an extra €1 per month and I will wait to see what these five channels are.

    One thing I loved about UPC was the extra BBC channels on the EPG well Sky has these from Thursday.

    BBC 1 HD was a nice little add on.



    i feel the same way as you raincand,in fact id prefer the cbs channels to the itv channels,im hoping for the horror channel to be added


  • #41
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Tarquin1970 wrote: »
    I agree Ranicand, I like the choice, and I trust that they may eventually provide replacement channels but I think that they have taken a different path recently. All of their focus is now trained on the BB Market.

    The interview on Today FM pretty much confirmed this,the tv service is fast becoming just an add-on to the Broadband service.My ideal setup would be tv from Sky and broadband from UPC.


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  • #42
    clln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭clln


    zerks wrote: »
    the tv service is fast becoming just an add-on to the Broadband service.

    Always wearing their buisness hat i think Sky will never consider BB for Ireland since it would have to be delivered by Eircoms copper wire as opposed to UPC's fibre.that is a no brainer to them until someday Ireland is fully phone served by fibre from Eircom.won't be holding my breath for that!:D

    Eircom had its chance but blew it!


  • #43
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,236 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    Eircom never had a chance heretofore. The carpet baggers started dismantling long-term investment potential in less than 2 years after eircom was created.

    There will be a point in the medium-term where people will start to see fixed broadband like the way people regarded telephone service in this country in the 70s. The demand is inevitable and the good work being done in Northern Ireland only highlights our own national failure. Also, the continued high prices for Copper will inevitably start seeping into the beancounters in eircom. I feel sorry for technical managers in that company over the 2000s, they were completely hamstrung by the sucessive ownerships.

    Eircom will sooner or later have to embrace significant fibre rollouts to the last mile even if it takes ironic govt intervention to finally fix the mess they created. Eircom will be viewed by the general public as being too big to fail if they face receivership. There are still too many places in Ireland where Eircom have a near monopoly on communications services even for the backhaul for the only telephony alternative, the mobile operators.


  • #44
    Elbows22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 455 ✭✭Elbows22


    surf board wrote: »
    I see upc already have a mobile app for remote record in the Netherlands. Called Opnemen, (Dutch for record). It was only released there in December but already has been downloaded more than 40,000 times. Why not here though?

    Its going to be release here before the end of the year


  • #45
    popebenny16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,461 ✭✭✭popebenny16


    Tarquin1970 wrote: »
    Seems like a lot of people are missing the repeats of Midsummer Murders and Celebrity Juice, and have used it as a stick to beat UPC with.

    not true, it is simply a case of looking at what you get for what you pay for, and compare it with the likes of freesat and sky.

    Again, without wanting to sound repetitive, for those of us who get the MMDS Digital Package - no broadband, no recording ability, no phone - it is a very poor set up indeed and when i see that for the same money (and dropping ESPN in the process) you almost get the Sky World package its a bit nuts.


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