Chorus buying a "programme" feature?

ryanciara

Hi

I was just wondering I have Chorus and when I bring up the guide function to see what is on I notice under the blue button it says 'buy' and when I click on it it says:

"Please select the programme you want to buy. PPV events are indicated with a blue circle."

Does this mean you can buy any programme you want from a TV channel you don't have or you can buy the TV channel separately and if so how much does it cost to buy it?

Thanks for your help.

coylemj

PPV (pay per view) usually applies to specific one-off sporting events like boxing matches, it's typically not a way of buying access to one programme on a channel you don't subscribe to.

watty

How have you Chorus? Have I fallen into a time warp?
They vanished years ago. Bought along with NTL by UPC.

Channels are only in bundles by subscription. Only single special events are one off purchases.

steveon

watty wrote: »

How have you Chorus? Have I fallen into a time warp?
They vanished years ago. Bought along with NTL by UPC.

Channels are only in bundles by subscription. Only single special events are one off purchases.

To be fair a lot of UPC boxes are still branded Chorus and so does the menu and background images you see when you load guides etc....so its no wonder a lot of people dont know their called UPC...

Morf

steveon wrote: »

To be fair a lot of UPC boxes are still branded Chorus and so does the menu and background images you see when you load guides etc....so its no wonder a lot of people dont know their called UPC...

Has the feature mentioned ever worked on Chorus-branded equipment?

Wouldn't one have to ring up UPC to buy a one-off PPV anyway with the hardware?

watty

steveon wrote: »

To be fair a lot of UPC boxes are still branded Chorus and so does the menu and background images you see when you load guides etc....so its no wonder a lot of people dont know their called UPC...

Don't they get a bill?

icdg

Morf wrote: »

Has the feature mentioned ever worked on Chorus-branded equipment?

Wouldn't one have to ring up UPC to buy a one-off PPV anyway with the hardware?

On systems with no return path (eg MMDS - the platform where there would still be mostly Chorus branded hardware) yes you'd have to ring UPC to buy.

Morf

icdg wrote: »

On systems with no return path (eg MMDS - the platform where there would still be mostly Chorus branded hardware) yes you'd have to ring UPC to buy.

I have a UPC HD+ box and a Sagem grey chorus box in other. Could I order off the latter? Was that functionality ever used in practice I mean?

icdg

Morf wrote: »

I have a UPC HD+ box and a Sagem grey chorus box in other. Could I order off the latter? Was that functionality ever used in practice I mean?

If you have a UPC HD+ box are you not on cable then rather than MMDS? You may be able to order using the UPC box so. Can you access UPC On Demand using the HD+ box? That'd be a pretty good indicator. Whether you could order using the Chorus box I'm not sure. There's a Box Office boxing card on the 31st May so you could try it then if you were that bothered.

Morf

icdg wrote: »

If you have a UPC HD+ box are you not on cable then rather than MMDS? You may be able to order using the UPC box so. Can you access UPC On Demand using the HD+ box? That'd be a pretty good indicator. Whether you could order using the Chorus box I'm not sure. There's a Box Office boxing card on the 31st May so you could try it then if you were that bothered.

I'm not really to be honest.

Just wondered if it ever actually did function on the Sagem chorus box.

Kensington

The old Chorus branded Sagem boxes were scrapped years ago as part of the rollout of Nagra 3.
The were all replaced with newer Sagem boxes which are branded "UPC" and have UPC branding on the EPG - all references to Chorus are gone.

From distant memory, the old Chorus boxes had an in-built 56K modem.
If you pressed the Blue button it would try dial home to authorise the purchase otherwise it would direct you to ring the Chorus helpline to do it.
The boxes also tried to dial home regularly throughout the day, even with no phone line connected, with a very audible "click" from the internal modem as it tried to connect followed shortly by a second "click" as it gave up. Used to drive my relations nuts!

They only had Sky Box Office, Playboy and 5 pay per view movie channels as a PPV offering, you couldn't buy individual programmes off a non-PPV channel, you had to subscribe to the channel.

icdg

A holiday home I stayed in September 2009 in Clare still had one installed at that stage. I had thought they were still in use on the MMDS network in ex-Chorus areas as UPC's usual Pace/Thomson/Cisco STBs don't work on the DVB-T based MMDS network.

steveon

Kensington wrote: »

The old Chorus branded Sagem boxes were scrapped years ago as part of the rollout of Nagra 3.
The were all replaced with newer Sagem boxes which are branded "UPC" and have UPC branding on the EPG - all references to Chorus are gone.

From distant memory, the old Chorus boxes had an in-built 56K modem.
If you pressed the Blue button it would try dial home to authorise the purchase otherwise it would direct you to ring the Chorus helpline to do it.
The boxes also tried to dial home regularly throughout the day, even with no phone line connected, with a very audible "click" from the internal modem as it tried to connect followed shortly by a second "click" as it gave up. Used to drive my relations nuts!

They only had Sky Box Office, Playboy and 5 pay per view movie channels as a PPV offering, you couldn't buy individual programmes off a non-PPV channel, you had to subscribe to the channel.

The Old Sagem boxes are still used on MMDS.....often refered to as G6 or G6 minis....nothing but the card changed to upgrade the Nagravision. There are plenty of boxes out there with Chorus Still printed on them, must check as you say has the epg been changed to say UPC, I would imagine it would have I come across them regularly.

And in regard to bills saying it....I still hear people calling UPC Horizon Multichannel as well as Eircom being called Telecom Eireann....nothing will ever change there...

ryanciara

Thank you