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Virgin Media boosts 3D TV line-up

Wednesday 29 December, 2010

By Becca Talbot - becca@consumerchoices.co.uk

Lucky enough to recieve a 3D TV for Christmas? Put it to good use with Virgin Media’s on-demand 3D TV service, which now offers mind-blowing 3D films, documentaries and animated shows.

Virgin Media (www.virginmedia.com), the UK’s largest cable TV provider, has given its 3D TV offering a boost for the New Year, adding documentaries and animated programmes to the already available on-demand 3D films.

3D films and programmes to be shown on the service over the coming months include:

3D documentaries (available to XL TV customers only)

• 3D Sun - available now
• Dinosaurs Alive - available now
• Mummies - available in January
• Waking the T-Rex: The Story of Sue - available in January
• Siegfried and Roy: The Magic Box - available in January
• Extreme Nature: Bats - available in February
• MicroWorlds - available in February.

3D animations (available to all Virgin Media TV customers)

• Xenopod - available now
• Curse of Skull Rock - available now
• The Mission - available in January
• Voyage to Mars - available in January

3D Movies on Demand (pay-per-view)

• The Hole - available from 17 January
• Despicable Me - available in February

A spokesman for Virgin Media said: “This exciting new line-up of content will enable Virgin Media TV customers to experience a close-up of the sun, explore the lost world of the dinosaurs, uncover the secret world of bats and rediscover the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, all in breathtaking 3D.”

Virgin Media’s 3D content is available to all homes with a subscription to one of the firm’s TV packages and a V+HD or V HD set-top box, as well as a 3D ready TV. 3D movies cost from £4.75 to rent for 24 hours.

Jon Ingram, operations director at Digitalchoices.co.uk, said: “Virgin Media’s on-demand 3D service is perfect for anyone that’s just got a new 3D ready TV in the January sales or was lucky enough to get one as a Christmas present.”