Something's gone bizarrely wrong with Virgin's BBC2 feed tonight - their widescreen feed during Peter & Dan Snow is a 4:3 crop stretched to 16:9. I even went to check another room to check, and Freeview's fine. What on Earth...?
interestingly they're suggesting said equity firm might only be able to get their hands on the non-branson shares so they can make the firm a limited company.
Without the meddling of shareholders they might be able to upgrade the backend of the network and see about trying to tie everything together properly instead of running three companies under one brand name.
So, a private equity firm is eyeing up Virgin Media. Not totally surprising why but is it a good thing? Depends, they could easily chuck shedloads of cash at the infrastructure of the whole network and update it to one single network running better hardware for everyone on better middleware than Liberate and actually get to using AVC or even WiMax over MPEG-2 for HD but that's an idealistic view. More realisitically, it could mean more asset stripping in order to turn a profit but they're running barebones as it is so I doubt there's much that could be done there. On the face of it, doesn't look like more than PLC being turned into a limited company.
It's all longterm though, this is a large company with 3 disparate networks working in some form of tandem, a long history of it's previous entites working their way into the ground and an somewhat archaic analogue service still running, this will take time to get near to where Sky stands now but the immediate future looks cloudy.
I switched two weeks ago and I have to say that I'm very happy with it - if only for the TV On Demand - something that Sky will never be able to provide (I don't really call putting the content on the user's box in the first place - or sending it to a PC! - "On Demand"!)
We're saving about £100 by moving phone, TV and Internet to Virgin.
I switched two weeks ago and I have to say that I'm very happy with it - if only for the TV On Demand - something that Sky will never be able to provide (I don't really call putting the content on the user's box in the first place - or sending it to a PC! - "On Demand"!)
We're saving about £100 by moving phone, TV and Internet to Virgin.
I switched two weeks ago and I have to say that I'm very happy with it - if only for the TV On Demand - something that Sky will never be able to provide (I don't really call putting the content on the user's box in the first place - or sending it to a PC! - "On Demand"!)
We're saving about £100 by moving phone, TV and Internet to Virgin.
Very happy.
Go away James Martin.
I reported this post earlier yesterday but nobody has taken any notice. Charlie must be busy experimenting with substances.
Why have you asked me to go away, JTroll97? It's not like I'm a mass murderer is it now?
Grow up. We appreciate it's school holidays and thus fanboy season but don't be that much of a cretin.
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