Virgin Media TV Blog: August 1st for six HD channels on Virgin?

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According to a forum post on Digital Spy, Virgin will launch six HD channels on August 1st:

Just received a reply from Mr Berkett's office regarding HD Channels and ESPN. Below is the reply (Please note no mention of coming soon)

Howard
We are in negotiation with ESPN
We will launch half a dozen channels on August 1

Nothing official from Virgin and not the first time we've seen a possible date. I will see if anyone at VM can substantiate this. Stay tuned...

UPDATE: Just got this back from VM support:

At the moment there have been no announcements, as soon as anything new does come out this will be communicated to the customers.
thanks

Kind Regards
Laura Jay
Virgin Media Technical Support

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Virgin Media TV Blog: Virgin testing 7 new channels

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Off EPG, Virgin currently have seven channels "testing" - VMTest1 -VMTest7. However, before anyone gets too excited it should be pointed out that they're showing standard definition test broadcasts rather than HD, so chance are they're for regular channels and the numbering is just a coincidence

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Film4 to broadcast an extra two hours from May 23rd

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Virgin Media TV Blog: Berkett talks HD

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Virgin Media TV Blog: Virgin Media in negotiations for History HD

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According to Cable Forum A&E, the folk behind the History channel, say that

We are in active discussions with Virgin Media in relation to both Military and History HD.
We hope that our discussions will be successful, but in the meantime would suggest that you also express your desire to receive these Channels directly to Virgin Media.

It is unclear whether this is for the HD channel or more on demand content (there has been some History HD on demand programming already, notably The Universe).
Still no official confirmation from Virgin regarding the timing of any additional HD services.

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Digital Spy: Virgin "actively focused" on HD

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