Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35204498)

A phone is a phone mate what do you mean equal quality , Sky phone is miles cheaper than VM , in fact VM phone service is one of the dearest available.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35204516)

It's also funny as Berkett says Sky want to much money and Sky say VM don't want to pay for Atlantic .

Originally Posted by alwaysabear (Post 35204512)

Especially the UK TV HD channels which VM own 50%.:(

Originally Posted by alwaysabear (Post 35204485)

I contacted Cindy Rose in January regarding ESPNA HD and was told "The channel is expensive and we are trying very hard to work with ESPN to find a way to make it available to our customer base affordably. Please bear with us while we complete these discussions...
Still no news are they still in negotiations? several other people have asked the same question over the last 9 months and get similar answers, or lack of capacity.:(

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35204463)

A very valid point , it's very easy to blame Sky all the time. To be honest I'm not Murdoch's biggest fan however I do feel VM want channels ridiculously cheap , they haven't even added pay tv channels like ITV 2,3,4 HD.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35204554)

But Adam Crozier said they were open to talks with Virgin Media.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35204560)

ITV's HD channels will become available to Sky+ HD subscribers in autumn, starting with ITV2 in October. ITV was in talks with other providers, Crozier said, including Virgin Media, but the deal was exclusive to Sky among satellite platforms.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...ls-pay-tv-push

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35204506)

Whats the excuse for not adding ITV HD channels , Nat Geo Wild HD , History HD , Disney Cine and XD HD , universal HD , Bio HD , ESPNA HD , EDen HD , Crime HD , Nickelodeon HD , I know we'll just blame Sky for that as well.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35204517)

Our prices have already increased twice in the last 9 months but they have added absolutely nothing to our package , in matter of fact they have removed several channels in the last few months.

Originally Posted by Lew (Post 35204550)

Remind me, how many other European sat/cable providers are carrying ESPNA HD? Despite the length of time its been available and the big push ESPNA are making to get viewers to ask their providers to carry the HD channel you'd be hard-pushed to find more than 5, and at least two of them are Sky-owned. Satellite providers have to do very little as the channel's uplinked to satellite by ESPN so they just pay a fee and add it to their packages. Cable providers have to get hold of the signal and provide a space for it on one of their muxes, all of which costs extra money on top of whatever ESPN want for the channel. Unless more providers start to carry the channel I think ESPN will have to re-think how much they want for it.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35204599)

And one of those was VAT increase.

Strangely enough, Sky's prices also went up twice in the last year - September and January....

And of the channels removed, didn't Sky actually remove two of those?

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35204599)

And one of those was VAT increase.

Strangely enough, Sky's prices also went up twice in the last year - September and January....

And of the channels removed, didn't Sky actually remove two of those?

Originally Posted by Henkesghost (Post 35204615)

You are obviously entitled to your opinion but then again so are those that think the world is flat:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by mersey70 (Post 35204605)

ESPNA HD is an incredibly niche channel with a miniscule weekly reach, perfect for a stand alone subscription package but not perfect to be included in a package like XL and certainly not when they don't charge extra for HD.

I doubt it's that high up on VM's 'HD shopping spree' list but we'll see.

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Sky of course put their prices up, usually in September. And Sky did close some of the ex-VMtv channels but since their September price rise they have launched Nickleodeon HD, Disney XD HD, Eden HD, ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD, ITV4 HD and Sky Atlantic HD. Of course they can do this because of their pricing structure, nevertheless value has been added since their price rise.

As far as I recall no pay channels have been added to XL for over 6 months but i'm happy to be corrected on that. Let's see what happens now VM's prices have increased.