Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 4.

Sky see BT as more of a threat than VM for their sports rights.
Why would they 'help the competition' by giving them 75 million a year? It may please their punters but they've seen off Setanta and ESPN, they're probably hoping to do the same with BT.

I doubt sky had any intention of attempting a wholesale deal with BT.

Just edited to add, if there was talk between them i'd imagine the wholesale of sky sports channels to BT was a 'must have'.
Selling BT Sports wholesale to VM will certainly help their court case against sky refusing to let BT carry SS 3 and 4

howardmicks

16-08-2013 17:29

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35611137)

Well funny you should mention that, as sky contacted me this week, and as long term customer wanted to make sure I was getting all I could.

After 5 mins on the phone with them I had my Broadband free for a year (i'm already a subscriber) and they're sending me out a new 2TB HD box, my exsting HD box will replace my standard Sky+ box I have on multi-room.

I also have movies free, and £10 of my overall bill until the end of the year.

So no, I'm not frustrated.

Got a result there bud,a friend have mine had a similar deal last week.just think companies are trying to tie customers into new contracts but we are all seeing bette deals out of it ;)

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Both sky and bt don't see vm as a threat liberty global have stressed that they not interested in being channel owners they purely want to supply,both sky and bt see vm as a alternative way of broadcasting the products without costs but as a addition income

anap	16-08-2013 17:34

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Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35611139)

Got a result there bud,a friend have mine had a similar deal last week.just think companies are trying to tie customers into new contracts but we are all seeing bette deals out of it ;)

I'm getting VIP with an extra box for £106.49 (including line rental). I'm currently on XL TV, Phone and Broadband (60) with Sky S & M, TiVo (500GB), V+ & V boxes for £100.15. So for £6.34 more I'll get XXL Broadband (120), Sky S & M in HD and Talk Unlimited Extra. They'll swap the Superhub for Superhub2 and the 500GB Tivo for 1TB. :)

thegrid

16-08-2013 17:46

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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35611053)

Virgin are advertising VIP with 50 HD channels already.

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/9096/wqvi.png

If they're already advertising 50, there must be something else launching immanently. I wonder what it could be :)

ocav	16-08-2013 17:49

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Originally Posted by johnathome (Post 35611138)

Just edited to add, if there was talk between them i'd imagine the wholesale of sky sports channels to BT was a 'must have'.
Selling BT Sports wholesale to VM will certainly help their court case against sky refusing to let BT carry SS 3 and 4

That's not their case, BT haven't said anything about wanting SS 3&4, BT just want SS1&2 on their YouView box!

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Originally Posted by thegrid (Post 35611149)

If they're already advertising 50, there must be something else launching immanently. I wonder what it could be :)

There is already 50...

thegrid

16-08-2013 17:51

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Originally Posted by ocav (Post 35611152)

That's not their case, BT haven't said anything about wanting SS 3&4, BT just want SS1&2 on their YouView box!

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There is already 50...

Ignore my last post, I've been catching up since last night :)

johnathome

16-08-2013 18:02

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[QUOTE=ocav;35611152]That's not their case, BT haven't said anything about wanting SS 3&4, BT just want SS1&2 on their YouView box![COLOR="Silver"]

I bet they'd want it, unfortunately the original ruling by Ofcom only covered SS3 and 4. BT released their price for them and a few weeks later sky put the price up and BT had to sell it at a loss or immediately put their prices up.

BT have just kicked sky in the face.

muppetman11

16-08-2013 18:12

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Originally Posted by eljay (Post 35611123)

Just carried out a survey for Virginmedia through a company GFK Research. In it they ask you to select preferences on possible enhancments to Virginmedia offerings. Three were of interest.

1. They mention at the start a possible price increase of between £3 to £6

2. One of the selections mentions "now that Netflix is available on Tivo".

3. Another mentions "Unlimited downloads at no extra cost"

Make of those what you will!

Pay TV is fast becoming overpriced with constant increases.

colin25

16-08-2013 18:15

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US gets all 380 games, they paid £250m (NBC)

That would be good :)

ocav	16-08-2013 18:19

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Originally Posted by eljay (Post 35611123)

Just carried out a survey for Virginmedia through a company GFK Research. In it they ask you to select preferences on possible enhancments to Virginmedia offerings. Three were of interest.

1. They mention at the start a possible price increase of between £3 to £6

2. One of the selections mentions "now that Netflix is available on Tivo".

3. Another mentions "Unlimited downloads at no extra cost"

Make of those what you will!

Unlimited downloads? Downloads of what?

colin25

16-08-2013 18:20

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Originally Posted by ocav (Post 35611172)

Unlimited downloads? Downloads of what?

"unlimited"...you can download "unlimited". :D

denphone

16-08-2013 18:22

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If Netflix is made available for lets say for £3 to £4 a month then l will certainly be interested.