This palava also disadvantages me in that I'm on taping duty for 24 and Lost for a family member.
SUCH an inconvience.
Exactly, I have a lot of mates and family with Virgin who have asked me to record the new series of 24 for them. They think that as I have Sky+ I can just stick it on record and give it to them, but I have to find spare DVD-RW's and the time to dub them off the box onto DVD.
Orry, well if you have Sky then give them your "Sky Anytime on PC" log-in and get them to download it themselves - easy!
can't remember who posted:
Sky is controlled by a greedy, mean, foul, rude, anti-competitive, selfish, immoral old layabout.
I think you will find that the CE of BSkyB is about 35 years old, very professional and not a layabout from what I have seen of his speech at the Ofcom conference last year. He is a shewd businessman. I think you are referring to his father who is Chairman of NewsCorp perhaps?
I think you will find that the CE of BSkyB is about 35 years old, very professional and not a layabout from what I have seen of his speech at the Ofcom conference last year. He is a shewd businessman.
Wikipedia posted:
James Murdoch attended Horace Mann School in New York City and graduated in 1991. He then studied music at Harvard University, but dropped out in 1995 without completing his studies.
Wikipedia posted:
He first came to public notice as a 15-year-old intern at the Sydney Daily Mirror, but made headlines in the rival Sydney Morning Herald after he was photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference.
Wikipedia posted:
He reportedly tried to persuade his father to buy internet company Pointcast for US$450 million; it was subsequently sold to another company for just $7 million.
Wikipedia posted:
After installing a new management team at Festival, JamesMurdoch purchased the controlling 51% share of Mushroom Records in 1999 ... the company was wound up in late 2005 and its remaining assets were sold. The recording catalogue was sold to the Australian division of Warner Music for only AU$10 million in October 2005, and the publishing division was sold to Michael Gudinski a month later, for an undisclosed sum.
That's the thing, they are making Virgin Central out to be a great service, but the content as it stands is nothing decent. Sky Anytime on TV make not be true VOD, but I've got a strage feeling it will be better than Virgin Central as it will probably have the same content as Sky Anytime on PC, which has a MUCH bigger library.
Virgin Central is just a showcase channel for some of the on demand programming, it does not tell the full picture. It's an attempt to combine on demand content with a linear channel.
There is a large volume of content available on Virgin's On Demand service, this is the latest list (lifted from somebody over at DS), all available to watch at anytime ;
10 Years Younger II 17 Episodes
10 Years Younger III 11 Episodes
40 3 Episodes
Absolutely II 8 Episodes
Ace Lightning (Series 2) 13 Episodes
Adam And Joe Show The I 4 Episodes
Adam And Joe Show The III 6 Episodes
Adam And Joe Show The IV 8 Episodes
Adam And Joe's 0hr43
Adventures Of Jimmy Neautron 13 Episodes
Alias (Series 4) 22 Episodes
Alias (Series 5) 17 Episodes
All Grown Up 8 Episodes
All Of Us (Series 3) 10 Episodes
As Told By Ginger 12 Episodes
Baby Baby 8 Episodes
Babylon 5 (Series 1) 9 Episodes
Balls Of Steel I 7 Episodes
Battle B'Daman 4 Episodes
Best Of The Word The 10 Episodes
Big One The 7 Episodes
Black Books I 6 Episodes
Bleak House 8 Episodes
Bo Selecta I 6 Episodes
Bo Selecta II 8 Episodes
Bo Selecta III 9 Episodes
Book Group The II 6 Episodes
Booze Britain 1 Episodes
Boyz Unlimited 6 Episodes
Bradford Riots 1hr17
Catherine Tate (Series 1) 6 Episodes
Catherine Tate (Series 2) 6 Episodes
Celebrity Wife Swap 01 0hr49
Celebrity Wife Swap II 08 0hr50
Chelmsford 123 6 Episodes
City Gardner The III 14 Episodes
Close To Home (Series 1) 9 Episodes
Comin Soon 3 Episodes
Cops, Cars & Superstars 4 Episodes
Costa Del Street Crime 5 Episodes
CSI (Series 1) 4 Episodes
Da Ali G Show I 6 Episodes
Dalziel & Pascoe Series 8 4 Episodes
Deal Or No Deal 07.01.07 0hr49
Deal The I 01 1hr17
Deep Blue 1hr30
Derek Ancorah's Ghost Towns 3 Episodes
Derren Brown Mind Control I 5 Episodes
Dirty Tricks 6 Episodes
Dora The Explorer 4 Episodes
Dr Who (Series 2) 13 Episodes
Drop The Dead Donkey 1991 13 Episodes
Drop The Dead Donkey III 11 Episodes
Drop The Dead Donkey IV 12 Episodes
Drop The Dead Donkey V 10 Episodes
Eleven Me Against Eleven 1hr11
Elizabeth I 2 Episodes
Empire How Britain Made The Modern World 6 Episodes
Extreme Celebrity Detox 4 Episodes
Faking It 2004 6 Episodes
Faking It III 4 Episodes
Faking It IV 11 Episodes
Father Ted I 5 Episodes
Father Ted II 10 Episodes
Father Ted III 6 Episodes
Fresh Prince Of Bel Air (Series 1) 12 Episodes
Garth Marenghis Darkplace 6 Episodes
Genghis Khan 0hr50
Gordon Ramsays F Word I 8 Episodes
Gordon Ramsays F Word II 9 Episodes
Grand Designs I 8 Episodes
Grand Designs II 8 Episodes
Grand Designs V 12 Episodes
Green Wing I 9 Episodes
Green Wing Series II 8 Episodes
Grey's Anatomy (Series 1) 14 Episodes
Hairdresser The (Series 1) 8 Episodes
Higglytown Heroes 8 Episodes
Hill Street Blues Years I 15 Episodes
Home From Home III 10 Episodes
How To Look Good Naked I 8 Episodes
Hustle (Series 3) 6 Episodes
Hyperdrive (Series 1) 6 Episodes
Island Parish 7 episodes
IT Crowd The I 6 Episodes
Italian Kitchen Two The 6 Episodes
Jamies Great Escape 6 Episodes
Jamies Kitchen 7 Episodes
Jamies School Dinners 4 Episodes
Joey (Series 1) 5 Episodes
Jordan: Model Mum 0hr55
Just Jade 3 Episodes
Krakatoa - The Last Days 1hr30
Krakatoa Revealed 0hr50
Law Of The Playground The 7 Episodes
Lightning - Nature Strikes Back 1hr00
Lilies 6 episodes
Little Britain (Series 2) 5 Episodes
Location Location Location IX 10 Episodes
Lost 1 22 Episodes
Meet Ricky Gervais 6 Episodes
More Sex Tips For Girls 6 Episodes
Most Haunted (Series 4) 4 Episodes
My Dads Prime Minister 7 Episodes
My Hero (Series 5) 10 Episodes
My Life As A Teenage Robot 8 Episodes
My New Home 0hr50
Nathan Barley 6 Episodes
Never Mind The Horrocks 0hr40
Night Stalker (Series1) 4 Episodes
Nip/Tuck (Series 1) 5 Episodes
No Angels III 3 Episodes
North & South 4 Episodes
Paul Merton The Series I 6 Episodes
Paul Merton The Series II 6 Episodes
Peep Show I 6 Episodes
Peep Show II 6 Episodes
Peep Show III 6 Episodes
Pingu 26 Episodes
Place In The Sun A III 9 Episodes
Planet Earth (Series 1) 5 Episodes
Pornography: The Musical 0hr50
Postman Pat (Series 3) 5 Episodes
Pride & Prejudice 3 Episodes
Princess Nikki I 1 Episodes
Property Chain The I 4 Episodes
Property Chain The II 5 Episodes
Queer As Folk I 8 Episodes
Queer As Folk II 2 Episodes
Red Dwarf (Series 1) 6 Episodes
Red Dwarf (Series 2) 6 Episodes
Return Of The Chef 8 Episodes
Royle Family (Series 2) 5 Episodes
Rugrats 12 Episodes
Sensitive Skin 6 Episodes
Shackleton 2 Episodes
Shakespeare Retold 4 Episodes
Shameless I 7 Episodes
Shameless II 11 Episodes
Shameless III 8 Episodes
Sin Cities (Series 3) 3 Episodes
Six Wives Of Henry VIII 4 Episodes
Smack The Pony 7 Episodes
Smack The Pony II III 14 Episodes
Spaced I 7 Episodes
Spaced II 7 Episodes
Spongebob Squarepants 13 Episodes
Spooks (Series 3) 10 Episodes
Spooks (Series 4) 4 Episodes
Streetmate II 14 Episodes
Sugar Rush I 10 Episodes
Sugar Rush Series II 10 Episodes
Supernanny 2006 4 Episodes
Supernatural (Series 1) 10 Episodes
Sword Of Honour 2 Episodes
T-Rex: Warrior Or Wimp 0hr50
Teachers II 10 Episodes
Teachers III 12 Episodes
Teachers IV 9 Episodes
The Closer (Series 1) 4 Episodes
The Next Megaquake 0hr50
The OC (Series 1) 13 Episodes
The OC (Series 3) 12 Episodes
The Office (Specials) 2 Episodes
The Secret Show (Series 1) 13 Episodes
This Is David Lander 6 Episodes
Tony Robinson: Me... 0hr50
Too Big To Walk 3 Episodes
Top Gear 5 episodes
Torchwood 6 episodes
Travel Sick (Series 2) 5 Episodes
Trigger Happy TV I 7 Episodes
Trigger Happy TV II 6 Episodes
TV Dinners I 6 Episodes
Two And A Half Men (Series 1) 11 Episodes
Two And A Half Men (Series 2) 9 Episodes
UFOs: The Secret Evidence 1hr42
Underworld 6 Episodes
Unfabulous 3 Episodes
Vic Reeves Big Night Out 6 Episodes
Vicar Of Dibley (Series 1) 6 Episodes
Vicar Of Dibley (Series 2) 3 Episodes
Virgin Queen The 4 Episodes
What Really Killed The Dinosaurs? 0hr50
Wife Swap 2005 4 Episodes
Wife Swap 2006 2 Episodes
Wiggles The 5 Episodes
Wild Thornberrys 7 Episodes
Wildlife Specials 5 Episodes
World Of Lee Evans The 4 Episodes
You Are What You Eat 2006 16 Episodes
You Are What You Eat II 6 Episodes
Young Persons Guide To Becoming A Rock Star 6 Episodes
With content being added all the time, as well as the Pick of the Weeks programmes from the BBC & 4oD, and deals with HBO, Warner, Buena Vista still to come, (including Lost Series 3 later in the year and Heroes), it's quite a line up.
Apparently they are also about to announce a major 'movie promotion' which will probably see some of their 500 On Demand movies being offered for free or at a reduced rate.
Sky Anytime will allow viewers to access up to 40 hours of TV, downloaded to a section of the Sky + hard drive, Virgin has 1,000's of hours of content, due to it's return path which allows for viewer interaction. Sky's solution is not true VOD, and is pretty limited, everyone receives the same satellite signal, whereas with cable, video streams can be sent to individual receivers.
Virgin Media now run a 100% VOD service where all the videos are located on servers at Virgin Media and played to the user live with full pause, stop, fast forward and rewind controls. The VM VOD totally encompasses the whole VOD criteria.
WHEREAS
The Sky solution of giving everyone much bigger hard drives on their Sky boxes which utilises about 50% of the boxes space to download specific content to their box does give the Sky user some VOD functionality.
Of course say 40-50 hours worth of Sky programming vs 1000's from the Virgin Media catalogue does clearly illustrate the huge difference between both services.
The Sky option is pretty good considering the limitations on the broadcast method - but it would slightly annoy me if I wanted to use the extra space on my box for personal Sky+ recordings!
PS that list above of VM programmes is much much bigger when you add all the BBC and Channel 4 programmes like Eastenders, Casualty, Skins...etc.etc. It really is a great catch-up method for watching that weeks best programmes that you totally forgot about!
That's the thing, they are making Virgin Central out to be a great service, but the content as it stands is nothing decent. Sky Anytime on TV make not be true VOD, but I've got a strage feeling it will be better than Virgin Central as it will probably have the same content as Sky Anytime on PC, which has a MUCH bigger library.
Virgin Central is just a showcase channel for some of the on demand programming, it does not tell the full picture. It's an attempt to combine on demand content with a linear channel.
There is a large volume of content available on Virgin's On Demand service, this is the latest list (lifted from somebody over at DS), all available to watch at anytime ; *snip*
This is quite true - Virgin Media's VOD library is very impressive. However, the wider library of programming is only available if you pay for the TV Choice On Demand package, which costs £5.00 a month.
For those who don't want to, or can't afford to, pay that fee, they are left with the "week on demand" service, which includes 4OD, BBC and VM programming from the previous week, and the abysmal Virgin Central service - which isn't quite a fitting replacement for Sky One.
- what exactly is VOD?
