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NTL launched TV Drive, its high-definition television (HDTV) and personal video recorder service in Glasgow and Teesside on 16 November 2006. [15] The service relied on the service of the same name offered in NTL's Telewest areas, and used a new PVR set-top-box, with three tuners and a 160GB hard disk for up to 80 hours' recording. The presence ...
Telewest's fees however included the TV Drive recording service, equivalent to the recording features of the Sky+ service. TV Drive was the name of Telewest's Digital video recorder (PVR) service. The product incorporated a 160 gigabyte hard drive as standard, meaning it was able to store around 80 hours of recorded programmes.
January – Both NTL and Telewest start rolling out video-on-demand services. [53] CLS Holdings sells the assets of Wightcable to private investors in 2005, who formed WightCable (2005) Ltd and in 2012 WightCable was rebranded as WightFibre. 1 December – Telewest launches its first personal video recorder TV Drive. [54] 2006
Virgin Media (formerly known as NTL:Telewest, after a merger of NTL Incorporated with Telewest Global, Inc.), became in 2006 the first "quadruple-play" media company in the United Kingdom, bringing together a service consisting of television, broadband internet, mobile phone and fixed-line telephone services. Virgin Media ranks as the UK's ...
Virgin TV is a digital pay cable television service in the United Kingdom, owned by Liberty Global (50%) and Telefónica (50%) after the merger its UK businesses to form Virgin Media O2. Its origins date from NTL and Telewest, formerly two of the UK's largest cable operators
5 February – Launch of Irish Horse TV, Ireland's first TV channel dedicated to horse racing and other equine sports. [ 29 ] 25 February – Telecommunications giant BT , which bought the rights to some Premier League matches in 2012, expands its investment in sports broadcasting with the purchase of ESPN 's channels in Britain and Ireland.
V+ (previously known as TVDrive) is a set-top box for Virgin Media's Virgin TV service, which provides personal video recording (PVR) and high definition (HD) functionality to customers who subscribe to the service. Virgin TV have taken a different approach from rival Sky's Sky+ and later Sky+ HD services, by implementing a rental scheme for ...
On 22 March 2007, Chorus changed its digital cable line up to a subset of NTL Ireland's line up, using the same EPG numbering system as NTL. The MMDS lineup is still unchanged. Chorus was renamed as UPC Ireland in 2010, along with its sister company NTL Ireland. In preparation for this, from July 2007 advertising for both companies began using ...