Virgin TV360

My understanding is that Sky Glass will have a limited version off BBC iplayer when it launches in Ireland. How good or bad it will be I have no idea.

The rebrand of Syfy which happened on Tuesday, to Sky Sci-Fi, the logos have been updated on 360 boxes. However the channel names are stil SyFy HD (129) and Syfy (729)

Also, according to the VM website https://www.virginmedia.ie/bundles/broadband-tv-phone/500mb-broadband-bigger-tv-360/ - Sky Crime HD is available on the Bigger Pack in the TV drop down option for HD channels. It's not on my 360 box 🙄

Customers will be able to watch as much sport as they like with the addition of Sky Sports F1, BT Sport 1, 2, and 3, BT Sport ESPN, Premier Sports 1 and 2 (subject to appropriate subscription).

Thank god. Sky Sports F1 and the BT Sports channels, finally I can do away with Now TV and don't have to hide social media and goal notifications to avoid being spoled

Edit: Got the channels already. All working as expected, as mentioned above BT Sports ESPN is now BT Sport 4 despite the EPG still having the old name/logo. 440 for Sky F1 then 442 to 447 for the others. As I've noticed using Now TV, the Premier Sports channels quality isn't as good as the BT channels despite them all being HD guess that problem is just at source

Edit 2: One more thing in case anyone is wondering, the BT Sport/Premier Sport channels are available for streaming in the Virgin TV app which is handy

Brewery and Piss Up spring to mind once again in relation to the 360 EPG

Putting SS F1 HD on 440 when 410 was free and starting the BT Sport channels on 442 rather than 441-444. VM UK have the exact same Sky Sports sequence as Sky's EPG (Main Event to Mix 1 to 10) with SS Racing further down the EPG https://virgintvgo.virginmedia.com/en/tv/tv-guide.html. Also SS Racing is stil only available in SD. SS Golf stil has the Masters logo ever since I got the box last year

Even RTE News which rebranded from RTE News Now back in August 2020 is stil mislabeled along with BBC World News since day dot

Sky History and Sky History 2 are also mislabelled and wrong logos

MTV, MTV Hits and MTV Music are out of date logos and numberous radio channels have no logos

Just following up on this for any else seeing this issue. It appears to be with Virgin's feeds of these channels. Watching the Liverpool game on https://www.virginmediatv.ie/ today and seeing the same picture drop outs I was seeing on my 360 box. I've reported this to Virgin but knowing how little they care about their TV service, I'm not holding my breath it'll be fixed any time soon

Ring Virgin and get a Tech out. Ideally every box should have it's own wall socket (outlet box).

Wireless is on the way eventually, in 6 months or 3 years etc. - anybody's guess.

What limited functionality other than wireless capability and small buffer for live pause(wireless boxes are being tested currently)?

Recording everything (not ideal I know) you want to watch on a mini box is a workaround for proper pause and no problem with rewind.

I can’t see any new channels on my 360 box.

Anyone with the Sky Sports or BT Sports, I don't suppose you've started getting a random black screen a little while after switching to one of these channels? Only this weekend I've noticed it, 45 seconds after I change to one of these channels it'll go black for a second, even happens on the SD version of the Sky Sports channels. Doesn't seem to affect any of the regular channels (like RTE or VM channels etc)

Yes they operate like-for-like. You could just ring and upgrade for 360 and they could send out by courier. Might be a few more euro a month not sure and you must have Virgin broadband.

I see CNN has returned to Virgin Media 360 on channel 205 with Replay TV. Also Sky Documentary HD is now on channel 122 with Sky Nature SD on channel 730 and Sky Documentary SD on channel 731 all with Replay TV. Still no BBC 3 though.

It looks like CNN SD to me.

Yes CNN must be HD now. The text etc. looks so much clearer to when it last went off our Virgin Media Ireland Tv screens.

It's possible your HD media box is not on the correct subscription package that you have on the Horizon box. You would need to ring them and hopefully get an agent knowledgeable. In fact twitter is probably a better option if you have it to reach out to them and get it sorted.

I might be wrong but it's definitely a possibility.

According to the Autumn eNews email

New channels have arrived on Virgin Media Television! Uncover the story behind the story with Sky Documentaries on Virgin TV 122, get closer to the nature with Sky Nature on Virgin TV 730 and find the latest breaking news with CNN on Virgin TV 205, just sit back and enjoy!

This must be the first time they have actually advertised channel launches which is good news. Although above the text has the 3 channel logos, Sky Docs is the only one with a HD logo. Are we 100% sure CNN is in HD? To check, press the info button on a live programme and at the very bottom the Quality will say SD or HD beside Subtitles/Audio/Country

Thanks for that. It's labelled CNN too, rather than CNN HD on the 360 box. God, can VM get anything right

is Disney+ available on Virgin TV360 in Ireland? Conflicting info from googling.

Thanks.

I thought so. Virgin media ireland and Disney+ Keywords in google indicates yes but I had a feeling it was just feeding me Virgin UK search results regardless.