Film4 HD + E4HD Launching on Virgin Media

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Great to see Virgin catching up to Sky. Film4 is a channel that i have always wanted in HD, so hopefully by the time i move and switch to VM to will be ready and waiting!:

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/virgin-media-to-premiere-film4-hd-and-e4-hd/3010823.article

Film4 HD to launch exclusively on Virgin Media

* High Definition films from Film4 for the very first time
* E4 HD and Film4 HD join Virgin Media’s growing HD channel line-up

Virgin Media today announced the upcoming launch of Film4 HD and E4 HD on its digital TV platform. Virgin Media’s digital TV customers will be the first to watch Film4 in glorious High Definition (HD) as the channel launches exclusively on Virgin Media this summer.

Film4 HD will offer a daily line-up of fantastic movies. The channel will showcase the very best of British film-making, including Slumdog Millionaire, Mike Leigh’s Happy Go Lucky and Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric, as well as US independent films, Hollywood blockbusters, mainstream drama and comedy, foreign films and cult cinema alongside special features, in-depth interviews and exclusive programming, Film4 is the UK’s favourite film channel.

E4 HD offers hugely popular programmes including Glee, Skins and Hollyoaks in HD and simulcasts the E4 schedule. Alongside a choice of Channel 4 commissioned programmes, E4 HD also offers a range of films and well known US series including Desperate Housewives, 90210, and Ugly Betty in HD. E4 HD is expected to launch on Virgin Media in April.
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Will bring a total of 11 free (XL package) HD channels to VM once they all launch this year. And i think VM will be announcing even more in the coming months.
 
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ITV HD in time for world cup too it seems judging by what the virgin guy is saying on twitter.

Here's hoping for sky sports too! Getting a V+ box installed in my room soon!
 
film4 in HD will be great. It's not as good now as it was when it was a pay channel on sky but it's still one of my most watched / recorded channels on V+.

Glad to see the price hike being used for our benefit.
 
pity Virgin is so localised :mad:

Got a Virgin Media envelope through my door the other day, and I thought nahhhh I cant believe this, I was right........advertising their mobile phones grrrr
 
Just looking at joining Virgin as well, 2 houses either side can get it but not us or our immediate neighbours. And we know there is a connection (had cable years ago) so they are sending an engineer out to have a look.

Anyone know what package they are going to go on to? If you take HD do you just get all of the HD channels?
 
FrankJH said:
pity Virgin is so localised :mad:

Got a Virgin Media envelope through my door the other day, and I thought nahhhh I cant believe this, I was right........advertising their mobile phones grrrr
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Snap - really winds me up. I'd love to have a decent Internet connection, I live in a moderately sized town but on the edge so my ADSL is pants, but I guess better than nothing.
 
DiG said:
Just looking at joining Virgin as well, 2 houses either side can get it but not us or our immediate neighbours. And we know there is a connection (had cable years ago) so they are sending an engineer out to have a look.

Anyone know what package they are going to go on to? If you take HD do you just get all of the HD channels?
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XL package gets all the HD channels for free. Think the L package has some but not all.

Been reading and i think E4HD and Film4HD will be free on M+ package too!
 
Good news indeed - this will be the year that Virgin catch up with Sky HD.

Eurosport, Film4 and e4 are all coming in HD, WRT rumors Mediaboy over on cableforums usually gets it right, his latest updates:

-Channel 4's ''4oD'' will offer HD content.
-ITV Net Player will offer HD content.

=== Latest news on HD Channels on Virgin TV ===
-Virgin Media are in talks with ITV with an of carrying ITV1 HD.
-Virgin rumoured to be looking to add Crime and Investgation HD, History HD, E4 HD, Luxe HD, Bio HD, Nat Geo Wild HD, ITV1 HD, Rush HD, Five HD, Good Food HD, Sundance HD, Sci-FI HD, Living 2 HD, Sky1 HD, Sky Arts 1 HD, Sky Arts 2 HD, Sky Real lives HD, Sky Sports 1 HD, Sky Sports 2 HD, Sky Sports 3 HD, Sky Movies HD.

:cool:
 
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Where a Virgin getting all the bandwidth required from? It's a pity Virgin are still using the MPEG-2 codec :(.
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i wondered this. I read a year ir so ago that they wouldnt be able to have any more channels as due to using MPEG2 in their boxes they couldnt get any more channels down the pipe?
 
Excellent news. I have just had my V+ box installed and I love it (moved from a creaky old 10+ years standard digi box). We still need Sky1 HD though. Apparently they are in arbitration over this. Hurry up :p
 
The new Samsung V+box can use MPEG-4 for future use. So I guess VM are preparing for some content to use it.
 
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Snap - really winds me up. I'd love to have a decent Internet connection, I live in a moderately sized town but on the edge so my ADSL is pants, but I guess better than nothing.
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I live in London (right near Tower Bridge), so my angst is triple what you are feeling :D

The best internet speed I can get.........3.1Mb/s, and most of the time its approx 1.9 LOL (because the exchange has been upgraded, but the local cables are so ****)
 
Only for the places where the headend has been upgraded! Still some places that aren't upgraded yet:

Andover (includes Salisbury and north-west Southampton)
Belfast
Bristol (includes Gloucester, Cheltenham, Bath)
Cambridge (includes Newmarket, St Ives)
Cardiff (includes Newport)
Colchester (includes Ipswich)
Coventry
Derry
Guildford (includes Woking, Aldershot, Farnborough)
Haringey (North London)
Lewisham (central London, includes Acton, Harrow)
Lichfield (includes Stafford, Tamworth)
Newton Abbott (includes Plymouth, Exeter)
Northampton
Norwich (include Gt Yarmouth)
Oxford
Peterborough
Preston (includes Liverpool, St Helens, Wigan, Blackpool)
Reading (includes Basingstoke, Bracknell, High Wycombe)
Swansea
Swindon
Warwick (includes Nuneaton, Rugby)
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