The Virgin Media Television thread

deezell · 05-09-2018 4:42pm

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Hey Virgin Media Television... an féidir leat a tháirgeadh clár Gaeilge?

Wozzat's yer saying mate? Is that celtic or summat?

MikeyTaylor · 05-09-2018 5:01pm

deezell wrote: »

Wozzat's yer saying mate? Is that celtic or summat?

Is Gaeilge é.

Mickey Mike · 05-09-2018 5:48pm

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Is Gaeilge é.

Ni aon Gaeilge ar Virgin Media.

MikeyTaylor · 05-09-2018 5:55pm

Mickey Mike wrote: »

Ni aon Gaeilge ar Virgin Media.

Tá súil agam sin a athrú.

icdg · 05-09-2018 6:43pm

Can we take the Gaelige to the appropriate forum please

MikeyTaylor · 05-09-2018 7:04pm

icdg wrote: »

Can we take the Gaelige to the appropriate forum please

Sorry. Link please?

Maz2016 · 05-09-2018 7:14pm

I see the 7pm news has been scrapped.

Elmo · 05-09-2018 8:40pm

Maz2016 wrote: »

I see the 7pm news has been scrapped.

7pm news scrapped in favour of 6:30 news
6:30 news scrapped in favour of xpose
8pm news scrapped in favour of a new 7pm news
7pm news scrapped in favour of a new 8pm news

But always new!

icdg · 05-09-2018 8:40pm

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Sorry. Link please?

You’ll find it in the site menu at the top, it’s called Teach na Gaelt.

deezell · 05-09-2018 9:46pm

icdg wrote: »

You’ll find it in the site menu at the top, it’s called Teach na Gaelt.

(An) Mhaighdean Meáin

icdg · 05-09-2018 11:48pm

Back on topic (and in English) please, or I start handing out bans

PabloAndRoy · 06-09-2018 12:24am

xtal191 wrote: »

Wont these ridiculous logos cause burn-in on some TVs oled, plasma etc?

I doubt anyone will watch any of these channels long enough for it to be a problem.

Andy From Sligo · 06-09-2018 12:42am

i'm starting to not notice the logos so much now as at the beginning ... unless my eyeball skits up to the top right purposely.

but do you know what these TV stations should do when they have their logos like this is shift the pixels of the logo 1 or 2 pixels every minute or so, so there will be less chance of burn-in on viewers TV's - I dont know whether it would work but its worth a try - it would be so slight it would be un-noticeable to the human eye I should think.

I had a plasma TV once (or it might have been LCD) where you went into the TV setup menu and prevent burn in by moving the whole screen a couple of pixels a minute to prevent burn-in

deezell · 06-09-2018 10:25am

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

i'm starting to not notice the logos so much now as at the beginning ... unless my eyeball skits up to the top right purposely.

but do you know what these TV stations should do when they have their logos like this is shift the pixels of the logo 1 or 2 pixels every minute or so, so there will be less chance of burn-in on viewers TV's - I dont know whether it would work but its worth a try - it would be so slight it would be un-noticeable to the human eye I should think.

I had a plasma TV once (or it might have been LCD) where you went into the TV setup menu and prevent burn in by moving the whole screen a couple of pixels a minute to prevent burn-in

Logo would need to move by its entire size to fully prevent burn in, and Mea Culpa to the Mod for the Irish joke. Oops. Thats Latin. On a serious note, you could have the whole Gaelic fanatic movement down on your head for going as far as issuing publishing bans. Me, I was battered senseless in the pursuit of learning Irish as a kid. I didn't (learn), but it's fun to Google translate things like ' Virgin Media', shows how ludicrous it would be if regulators insisted on full translation quota. Imagine the continuity having to say, " agus anois, ar Mhaighdean Meáin ahaoin, Sraid Coronation". Oddly enough, it's Welsh and Irish/Gaelic broadcasts on TG4, Alba and S4C that are keeping a lot of the pro14 FTA, so maybe Mhai... I mean Virgin could do a bit of this if they wanted with their content, broadcast mandatory FTA sport only in irish but on PPV stream in English, kind of like a ryanair money makiing stunt.

spurious · 06-09-2018 10:29am

That show 'The Town' they did on Portlaoise the other night was one of the best things I have seen on Irish TV.

icdg · 06-09-2018 10:56am

Take a 48 hour ban Deezel for ignoring two warnings and going off topic to boot

Maz2016 · 06-09-2018 1:56pm

spurious wrote: »

That show 'The Town' they did on Portlaoise the other night was one of the best things I have seen on Irish TV.

I never knew it was on. But saw a bit of it on gogglebox and looked great. I must watch it on the player

thesultan · 06-09-2018 1:59pm

Is virgin sports a separate channel?

lertsnim · 06-09-2018 2:25pm

thesultan wrote: »

Is virgin sports a separate channel?

Yes.

thesultan · 06-09-2018 2:27pm

What number is it?

icdg · 06-09-2018 2:34pm

It’s not launched yet, September 18th (Tuesday week). But since it hasn’t launched yet, there’s a whole pile of UEFA Nations League football on VM3 over the next week.

EdgeCase · 06-09-2018 2:38pm

They've an excellent opportunity to come up with a real personality for the channels as part of this rebrand. My view of it is they need better, and less annoying, idents and logos.

If they're insistent on using the DOG, it needs to be more subtle and less hostile to plasmas and OLEDs. There are alternatives, for example just using the Virgin ∞ icon and a number in a very transparent DOG might be more than enough. Once they're allowing pixel colour changes to appear through the DOG, then there's less risk of burn in issues. The problem is any kind of sold bloc that doesn't change. The DOG can be done in such a way that it's more of a filter over the constantly changing background video from the TV channel, so its basically always changing itself, just modifying the image below.

They need to be a proper bouquet of channels with individual personalities too. Otherwise, I can't really see why I would watch Virgin 1 as opposed to 2 or 3. It's just a big mishmash of almost exclusively ITV programming.

Branding up a TV station is a lot more artistic and creative than branding an ISP or cable operator. They'd just want to be aware of that.

Also, I don't really see why Virgin Media Ireland couldn't develop a far more sophisticated brand than its UK counterpart as it's a much more complex offering, with its own content from TV3.

zeebre12 · 06-09-2018 5:53pm

lertsnim wrote: »

Yes.

Whatever will Virgin Media Sport air all the time it's not airing games? It has very few rights as it is

irishfeen · 06-09-2018 7:39pm

Picture quality on Virgin 3 on Sky for the Ger v Fra game is scandalous...

lgs 4 · 06-09-2018 7:45pm

irishfeen wrote: »

Picture quality on Virgin 3 on Sky for the Ger v Fra game is scandalous...

Germany: ZDF HD Astra 1 19e

irishfeen · 06-09-2018 7:51pm

lgs 4 wrote: »

Germany: ZDF HD Astra 1 19e

Or Sky Sports Mix HD right alongside Virgin 3

lgs 4 · 06-09-2018 8:14pm

irishfeen wrote: »

Or Sky Sports Mix HD right alongside Virgin 3

The feed is from ZDF HD and its free, been ripped off by sky.

lertsnim · 06-09-2018 8:22pm

irishfeen wrote: »

Or Sky Sports Mix HD right alongside Virgin 3

RTE News Now is beside Virgin Media 3 for me.

galtee boy · 07-09-2018 4:15pm

They've listened to reason and all the complaints to be fair to them, all the DOGS have been reduced in size. Still big, but definitely an improvement.

Tigerandahalf · 07-09-2018 4:31pm

The new Virgin Media Player (replacing tv3), does it have chromecast?

mackersdublin · 07-09-2018 4:33pm

galtee boy wrote: »

They've listened to reason and all the complaints to be fair to them, all the DOGS have been reduced in size. Still big, but definitely an improvement.

And would help if they were closer to the top right-hand corner

Mickey Mike · 07-09-2018 5:22pm

The VM2 logo is grand, one and three could do the same, and all made even smaller.

Mickey Mike · 07-09-2018 5:23pm

Mickey Mike wrote: »

The VM2 logo is grand, one and three could do the same, and all made even smaller.

HD now should be coming next.

galtee boy · 07-09-2018 5:26pm

mackersdublin wrote: »

And would help if they were closer to the top right-hand corner

Virgin 2 and 3 have just been moved right into the corner. Virgin 1 hasn't been moved into the corner yet though.

galtee boy · 07-09-2018 5:37pm

galtee boy wrote: »

Virgin 2 and 3 have just been moved right into the corner. Virgin 1 hasn't been moved into the corner yet though.

Somebody must be bored in Virgin on a Friday evening, the Virgin 3 dog has come out of the corner again, they are obviously playing around with it at the moment.

JDxtra · 07-09-2018 5:39pm

galtee boy wrote: »

Somebody must be bored in Virgin on a Friday evening, the Virgin 3 dog has come out of the corner again, they are obviously playing around with it at the moment.

Such amateurs.

Mickey Mike · 08-09-2018 1:42pm

Mickey Mike wrote: »

I moved my channels around manually, I put TG4 on no.3 and VMT 1,2&3 on 4,5&6 respectively. Its the only useless bit of information I have for you.

Nothing too exciting about VMTV so far, so bored I decided to switch channels around again, VM1 on 3, VM2 on 4, VM3 on 5 and TG4 on 6. Think I need to get out for a pint more often.

iseegirls · 10-09-2018 4:35pm

Any sign of the Virgin Media Sports channel listings? Digiguide doesn't seem to have the channel listed yet.

iseegirls · 10-09-2018 4:35pm

Any sign of the Virgin Media Sports channel listings? Digiguide doesn't seem to have the channel listed yet.

icdg · 10-09-2018 4:51pm

I’d have thought they’d have had something of a proper launch for it by now, but maybe not.

Meanwhile, viewers in the U.K. are getting this:

https://www.virginmedia.com/shop/tv/4k-ultra-hd.html

VM Ireland doesn’t do 4K, so it won’t be available here. Interesting though as I don’t think House of Cards US has got a traditional TV airing before in a country where Netflix was available when it launched.

Mickey Mike · 10-09-2018 5:10pm

galtee boy wrote: »

Virgin 2 and 3 have just been moved right into the corner. Virgin 1 hasn't been moved into the corner yet though.

I don't know why VM1 have not moved their logo up to the corner yet.

deezell · 10-09-2018 5:14pm

icdg wrote: »

I’d have thought they’d have had something of a proper launch for it by now, but maybe not.

Meanwhile, viewers in the U.K. are getting this:

https://www.virginmedia.com/shop/tv/4k-ultra-hd.html

VM Ireland doesn’t do 4K, so it won’t be available here. Interesting though as I don’t think House of Cards US has got a traditional TV airing before in a country where Netflix was available when it launched.

Just to put some perspective on this, this is an image with just under 51 times more pixels than vm1-3. Any of the blurry vm channels would fit into the DOG corner of this channel.
Is the picture resolution on VM cable boxes as bad? Do they have HD?

icdg · 10-09-2018 5:57pm

All three channels are in HD on VM. Also it may be just my experience, but Virgin’s SD picture never seems to be as bad. (That’s entirely subjective on my part, and I’m told may be as much to do with the television sets in question).

Tigerandahalf · 10-09-2018 6:00pm

That extra 4k channel in the UK is a nice addition plus the addition of the BT Sport 4k channel. Are the BT channels included free in the UK?

EdgeCase · 10-09-2018 8:17pm

In this day and age, broadcasting in SD is a bit of a joke. Can you imagine if RTE had continued to broadcast in upscaled 405 line television in the old days.

Based on just looking around me and my friends and relatives, very few households have standard definition televisions anymore, certainly not as their primary screens anyway.

You need crisp, sharp, clear HD at the very least and 4K is most definitely not some 'out there future technology' at this stage either.

irishfeen · 10-09-2018 8:20pm

EdgeCase wrote: »

In this day and age, broadcasting in SD is a bit of a joke. Can you imagine if RTE had continued to broadcast in upscaled 405 line television in the old days.

Based on just looking around me and my friends and relatives, very few households have standard definition televisions anymore, certainly not as their primary screens anyway.

You need crisp, sharp, clear HD at the very least and 4K is most definitely not some 'out there future technology' at this stage either.

Virgin Media 3 showing the football in SD on sky is actually embarrassing.

deezell · 10-09-2018 10:57pm

irishfeen wrote: »

Virgin Media 3 showing the football in SD on sky is actually embarrassing.

Portugal Italy match was barely watchable, wide angle shots were so blurred that you simply couldn't tell which player was which, faces just a pink or brown blur. Couldnt even read the pitch advertisements. Which is exactly what VM want. You either pay for cable with HD or sign to their streaming channel. The mandatory FTA requirement of certain sporting events is being met with this ghastly offering, leaving them free to extract subscriptions for what should be part of normal FTA service. The FAI and IRFU would want to cop on, they need to insist on sport broadcast bidders having a certain standard. It would turn you off sport, having to sit through 70's quality TV. Actually the old sports footage on Reeling in the Years looks better.

Delta2113 · 10-09-2018 11:46pm

irishfeen wrote: »

Virgin Media 3 showing the football in SD on sky is actually embarrassing.

Embarrassing for Sky!

JDxtra · 10-09-2018 11:56pm

Delta2113 wrote: »

Embarrassing for Sky!

Not really. That's up to the broadcaster, not Sky as platform operator. Same for Saorview - Virgin Media could make all their channels HD if they wanted, but they don't.

icdg · 11-09-2018 9:12am

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

That extra 4k channel in the UK is a nice addition plus the addition of the BT Sport 4k channel. Are the BT channels included free in the UK?

You have to take at least the “Full House” bundle - which is a bit pricer than the equivalent bundle of the same name here, to be fair.

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