The Virgin Media Television thread

Back in 80-81 we sometimes made house calls while out surveying in a particular area, people would write in and complain their signal was bad, and the local TV dealer had exhausted his options. With a mobile mast you could sometimes find a sweet spot, and show the householder the exact spot, often by a few feet, the antenna height and direction. One such find was a reflection off the face of Mount Brandon, antenna 7 feet off the ground and sheltered from multipath signals from the opposite direction by the outside loo down the back of the house. Mad stuff. A Convent in Mayo were unrepentant when told their slightly snowy signals were from a deflector, and it was a sin to watch them. The nuns just laughed, said it was a worse sin not to know what was going on in the world, then cooked us up a huge fry. I loved the studied obtuseness of rural people back then, they always had an answer up their sleeve, especially if you teased them about the TV licence.

IIRC Moville had no TV3 in analogue days. Viewers in N. Ireland on North Coast area had to rely on Holywell Hill transmitter which was more difficult to receive to watch TV3 or just wait until DSO.

Maybe they tried to improve the schedules.

Did anyone notice ? Or was it just an attempt?

Is there any examples of any programming being changed?

(Edit: I can see that Loose Women wasn't aired on VM1 yesterday, or repeated this morning on VM3)

Not sure on that but there's some stuff not on the player yet; news, tonight show, Ireland am, love island, love island aftersun

I thought Nolly was supposed to be on tonight on Virgin Media More, but only showing Wednesday night now.

All their channels were affected, despite what the press release said. On VM1, no Judge Judy, Paul O Grady, Call the Cleaners, different episodes of The Chase, the same episode of Amazing Animal Births from yesterday at the same time. There's no repeat of Millionaire tonight. No loose Women is the schedule tomorrow.

VM2 had no Tipping Point and a few others.

VM3 and 4's schedule change so much anyway, I doubt anyone would notice the other changes. Heartbeat not being on probably the big one as that's the highest rated show on that channel.

VM More seems to be just showing repeats of yesterday's non-sport related shows.

I bet it's a sneaky hack by Challenge so they can have a monopoly on The Chase.

Virgin Media 1,2 & 3 live streams now in HD on the Virgin Media Player via Firestick. Picture quality wise, I would say better than 720 and not as good as 1080, but a thousand times better than the standard definition that was only available up to yesterday.

6 nations was in HD on the VM player app on any Android TV, on Apple TV Box and I assume on other non Android TVs where the VM App exists. There's no VM player App for Samsung TVs Tizen operating system though. It plays in HD on any browser that's built into a smart TV, except most Samsung as they broke video playback within their TV browser. Champions league definitely HD, better than 720, when you can see every bristle on Richard Dunne's face.

So their storage system is compromised and off line. I was wondering why they hadn't Lukaku's goal, thought the cassette tape must jammed or something.

The Romanian version of Mrs Brown's Boys, with subtitles. In Irish.

Same with their sport. They often advertise the wrong match in the champions/Europa league, or the 6 nations, in the EPG details. Its often a match thats already been played or from a future date.