The Virgin Media Television thread

The VM Play website blocks you if you're in the North, but the direct stream links a few pages ago work perfectly fine in VLC Player. Are there similar links for RTÉ Player & TG 4's live streams (if their catch-up apps offer it?)

I've just selected my almost forgotten Apple TV box, I haven't watched anything through it some time, but it's integrated player apps are both working and up to date, with RTE player delivering Live and Catchup, while the VMplayer has automatically updated to VM Play, with VM 4 now available as a live channel. It's odd how Rteplayer on my Sony android-for-tv has no live function, and VMplayer won't update to VMPlay. I might move this box to the Samsung which now has neither Rteplayer or VMplayer, nor will their browser versions work through the TVs crummy internet browser anymore. That little Apple TV box is just as sharp as a razor, and you can change everything using the TV remote if the TV has the hdmi data connection,

Doing exactly the same on my Firestick, hopefully it will sort itself in a day or two.

The browser version doesn't seem to as nicer as the previous version. The catch-up split between the channels seem a bit unnecessary nowadays, seeing there is very difference between what the 4 channels are playing.

My Chrome adblocker doesn't seem to work it (unlike the previous version) so I'll have to look bit further into that - unless others have any advice.

Maybe search in the 360 app store or whatever it uses to make apps available. The VM player app upgrade icon when clicked was giving a ' somethings gone wrong' message on my Sony Bravia Android TV, but a search of the app store showed the Virgin media Play app, while the VM Player app is also still listed. When the Play app was selected, the icon was titled 'Upgrade' rather than 'Install' , and a click later it was up and running, four live channels in excellent HD, plus the usual catch up and streaming series. Still nothing for the Samsung set though, their rubbish internet browser app can't resolve and display the new RTE and VM players, so no access to any Saorview Catchup on this relatively modern and premium Samsung Qled TV.

The Virgin Play app is now up on the VM 360 guide since on Wednesday Morning,

Despite the new VM Player, it's refreshing to have the familiar VM EPG mystery tour with us, no doubt they'll list a match from last night or a future round for tonight's outing, part of the charm at this stage.

VM Play HD was very sharp, the studio pundits Damien and Keith even wore extremely fine crosshatch pattern jackets to test it. I had occasional frame and audio jitter and skipping, I'm putting that down to my miserable and worsening 17mbs not-so-broad band while I await fibre, but I'd be curious if others noticed it, as it can be a server demand issue too. I think its at my end. It's an excuse to yell out the door to the other half, 'Get off YouTube, I need the data. Watch a fkng soap or something!' 😷

26 years of TV3/VM today.

25 years of Ireland:AM. A nice celebration of it today, although there was 0 previous presenters back in the studio.

Looking back at that schedule 25 years ago, they had ireland:AM for just 2 hours from 7am-9am. Then a fitness workout show called Bodyfile. An hour block of pre-school shows, taken from what looks like a GMTV produced thing - Our House, Professor Bubble and Riff & Raff. Home produced programming that day including repeats of 20/20, Speakeasy alongside News at 5.30, 7, Tonight, and Sports Tonight. Sitcoms include Roseanne, King Of Queens, NewsRadio and Hudson Street. Film Premiere was John Travolta's Phenomenon. Sitcoms and Movie Premieres are something you don't see much anymore on VM.

is that because CL stretches over 3 nights now, Tuesday-Thursday.

Which reminds me, I watched the CL on VM2 play last week, great HD stream, but when Ruben Diaz got a Yellow Card at 33 minutes, the Card was pink. Is that a glitch in the VM stream, or my VMplay app, or is Ruben not telling us something? Maybe it was intended for Jack Grealish. Unfortunately VM don't have Catchup rights, so I couldn't replay it and get a freeze frame.

There are 1 minute catch-up highlights of selected Champions League games on VM Play if that's what you mean?

Virgin Media More have been replaying all the matches in full (the 12 games that VM2 and More showed live) as well over the past week.

It would want to be a really shyte game if you could condense its essence in one minute of play. It's a bit like the old Monty Python gag, where one of them (Cleese?) issues the instruction, "Summarise Proust". I must look it up.

Will they ever bloody well put VM3 in HD on sky? The football is on it tonight. Even their HD isn't great . It's almost a blur in SD.

Latest Keano quote gem, when lambasting England's new style which defensively cost them the match, Ian wright scornfully prompted, "with freedom". 'Exactly' said Keane, ' it's the new Garlic Bread'. I presume garlic bread was the new Prawn Sandwich.