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Links Week Mid-Week Week Ending 6th May 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the middle part of this week. Market and finance results from Q1 …

Virgin Responds to Sky Glass with a Dongle

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Sunday Times interviewed Virgin Media O2 CEO Lutz Schüler who sees a challenge to the new business as he tries to turn round Virgin’s poor reputation for customer service. He …

Tags:Sky| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Virgin Media

Virgin Media Launches Dedicated Ultra HD TV Channel

by Andrew Fenn

Virgin Media is launching what it calls “the UK’s first dedicated ultra high definition entertainment channel”, which will start broadcasting from September 17th. The channel will be exclusively available for Virgin TV Full House …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Virgin Media| Vol 25 - Issue 35

Netflix and Virgin to Offer Combination Subscription

by Andrew Fenn

Virgin Media has announced that from October 2018, its customers in the UK will be able to add Netflix to their main TV package and incorporate it into their Virgin Media bill. The two …

Virgin Upgrading Customers to UHD-Ready STB for Free

by Andrew Fenn

Virgin Media is offering existing Virgin TV customers a free upgrade to its V6 box, which is based on Tivo software. In what is one of the largest customer upgrade programmes ever carried out …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| Virgin Media| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Virgin Media Offers Ultrafast Broadband

by Alan Spencer

The cable operator, Virgin Media in the UK which is owned by Liberty Global, is now offering broadband speeds of 100 Mbit/s and above as a standard over fibre. The company has become the …

Tags:broadband| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Virgin Media| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Liberty Global Has Good 2016

by Milos Pavlovic

Liberty Global added 313,000 subscribers across its next generation TV platforms in Q4, bringing the total to 1.2 million over the year. After deconsolidating the Ziggo business in the Netherlands, the company has 6.7 …

Virgin Shows Eos Box for First Time

by Tom Allen

Virgin will sell the Eos box in the UK under the name ‘V6’, and has revealed a photo of the device. The STB will be able to play UltraHD content from Netflix and YouTube …

Virgin Joins UHD With TV Relaunch

by Tom Allen

Virgin Media CEO, Tom Muckeridge, has said that the company is to relaunch its TV service under the name Virgin TV. It will use a new STB called Eos, which will be launched in …

Virgin Planning 4k STB

by Tom Allen

Virgin Media of the UK has announced that it will launch an UltraHD set-top box this year, which will offer both live and VoD programming.

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 19

by Tom Allen

Virgin Media’s Paws TV remote – launched to celebrate the UK’s National Pet Month, in April – looks like a belated April Fools, but it really isn’t. Someone at the company really did sit …