Get Premier League football in HD on Virgin Media

With just two weeks until the monied might of the Premier League kicks off once again, Virgin Media has announced it’s readying a new HD channel, showing such delights as Sir Alex Ferguson going beetroot red when United go one down. When will you be able to give your eyes a treat? Read on and find out.

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New HD channels coming to Virgin Media

Virgin Media is adding four new HD channels to its line-up, bringing LIVING HD, FX HD, MTVNHD and National Geographic HD to its service at the end of the month.

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Universal bringing PictureBox to Virgin Media

Virgin and Universal are bestest buddies at the moment. The pair has only just announced the music subscription service and now Virgin has revealed that it’s going to bring Universal’s PictureBox on demand movie service to its cable customers. …continue reading Universal bringing PictureBox to Virgin Media

Virgin Media shows off 200MB broadband!

Virgin Media must really have it in for BT. No sooner does BT make plans for an ultra-fast fibre optic network, than Virgin Media manages to double it and has just announced that it’s starting a pilot of a new 200Mbps service. Those speeds even make the current 50Mbps service look a little bit pathetic. …continue reading Virgin Media shows off 200MB broadband!

Virgin Media gets Hi-Def BBC iPlayer

Virgin Media customers with the hi-def V+ set-top box will now be able to receive selected BBC iPlayer content in glorious HD. The Beeb has just announced that a raft of its top programming is coming to Virgin Media’s cable service on demand and in high definition.

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Broadband access for everyone by 2012

Every British home should have access to broadband with minimum download speeds of 2Mbps in time for the Olympics in 2012. That’s the opinion as outlined by Lord Carter (the communications minister) in his report on digital Britain, and endorsed by Gordon Brown at a local government conference today.

It’s a smidgeon of good news from the Prime Minister in these depressing financial times, re-affirming that Britain won’t be left behind in the digital age. It won’t be cheap, though. According to The Telegraph, Downing Street is expected to insist that the BBC use some of its £3.5billion annual licence fee income to help fund the project.

Currently around 40 per cent of British households are without broadband and some don’t even have the infrastructure to implement it. This will give the government the added opportunity to help instigate the installation of “next-gen” broadband with speeds in excess of 50mbps, made publicly aware after Virgin’s 50MB broadband service went live recently.

Good news for the digital sector then, that’s assuming we’ve all still got homes to live in in 2012 and haven’t been kicked out for late mortgage repayments…

(Via The Telegraph)

Virgin Media 50MB broadband: fit for a Queen

Slow download speeds? They get on our nerves! We want to be able to get our movies down in a snap. That’s why Virgin Media need to be given a hefty slap on the back for releasing its 50MB service – capable of downloading movies in mere minutes!

The service comes bundled with a rather sexy-looking N-wireless router (we never thought we’d be saying that about a modem) that’s capable of downloading a 1GB DVD-quality movie in just three minutes, albums in mere seconds and boasts latency times of DSL – great news for gamers! If that’s not enough for you, then consider this: it’s good enough for Her Majesty. Virgin Media has been supplying the Queen with the service for a while now. Ans if it’s good enough for HRH, then it’s good enough for us.

That’s not the end of it though. Virgin Media is also hard at work on a 100MB service to blow all other ISPs out the water. Imagine that. Movies downloaded from your computer and on your telly before you’ve even finished your business in the toilet.

Virgin Media’s 50MB service is available right now to 1.5million homes across the UK. It costs from £35 a month and by the end of December it’ll have reached 40 per cent of Virgin’s network, and by the middle of next year all 12.5million customers will be able to subscribe. Now that’s fast – a bit like its Broadband speeds, no?

Via Electricpig