Virgin Media to drop Sky One

aMIGA_dUDE

OK Sky do not own the satellites it use to broadcast to you. They lease there usage of Transponders. Sky founded a business called British Sky Broadcasting SA just so to leases the transponders on Astra satellites. Sky also uses Eurosat satellite's.

Now Virgin Media owns there network it was them who digged up roads place cables in streets. Took all the big risk's to build there own network.

PS Notice name there British Sky Broadcasting SA or BSB,lol

samtheman_2

I did forget there is a major VM offnet plan. Theres me thinking its all about the cables. I believe it will work in the same way BT will be offering TV soon. So there is lots to play for.

jezebel

I've discovered a lot in the week without Sky One etc

- 93p really isn't a lot of money unless you are virgin media

- The Dresden Files come in books (okay, so I did know this, but I got a chance to read them)

- Heroes really is the new Lost - much better storylines which make sense, less tooing and froing and in this one Greg Grunberg didn't die How did this not get stolen away by Sky?

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Okay, so I'm saving up for the £150 it'll cost me to get Sky (due to wanting a Sky+ box) but it's good to learn new things

samtheman_2

and how much would a v plus cost you?

david_b_so23

Quote from Rupert Murdoch:
"Monopolies are usually a bad thing, unless it's MY monopoly"
I read that in a Daily Mail column a couple of years ago, now, while I usually take anything I read in there with a pinch of salt (I'm a bit of a leftie & I prefer reading the Indy), I believe he DID say that. (The columnist ended with the words "Attaboy Rupert!"
That, I think, tells you all you need to know about the Murdoch/NewsCorp/Fox/Sky etc empire.

TaBunny

I do still prefer Sky news to all the other news channels on offer, I just can't seem to enjoy the bbc news and I used to like being able to bring up the 8 mini screens and watching the showbiz, the weather and the main news stories. The bbc has a red button but it just brings up stuff like teletext and is quite boring I think. I hate not having teletext now with virgin sigh but I am still hanging out deciding what to do re switching really hate the idea of all the hassle and my daughter would lose the extra box in her room and I don't want to pay out £299 for an HD sky + box sigh. Oh well.

jembie

I can still get teletext on Virgin.
I tried the Ceefax page (BBC2) when I was watching Ready Steady Cook last week and it worked..I was surprised as I didn't think we could get it on Cable.

TaBunny

jembie wrote:

I can still get teletext on Virgin.
I tried the Ceefax page (BBC2) when I was watching Ready Steady Cook last week and it worked..I was surprised as I didn't think we could get it on Cable.

wow you were lucky, everytime I press the teletxt button I get a message saying not available on this service as yet

jembie

Are you using the text button on the TV remote or the cable remote?
I use the good old TV text button on my TV remote

thor

TaBunny wrote:

I do still prefer Sky news to all the other news channels on offer, I just can't seem to enjoy the bbc news and I used to like being able to bring up the 8 mini screens and watching the showbiz, the weather and the main news stories. The bbc has a red button but it just brings up stuff like teletext and is quite boring I think. I hate not having teletext now with virgin sigh but I am still hanging out deciding what to do re switching really hate the idea of all the hassle and my daughter would lose the extra box in her room and I don't want to pay out £299 for an HD sky + box sigh. Oh well.

I don't miss sky news at all. In fact I don't care about any of the 'rolling news' channels. There is too much news on tv these days. It's on on the hour every hour(or at least that is a boast I remember hearing from one of the main channels - probably the bbc who like to waste licence fee payer's money)
I stopped watching tv news when I discovered teletext a couple of decades ago and now with the Internet being so prevalent I can't see why tv news coverage is remorselessly increasing all the time.