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Sorry Den, why would they not. Its all about them selling to the end user. As much as I would prefer it to be on MY choice,at the end of the day that is what it is, a choice :D |
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Joe public are aware of Sky's tactics; it seems as if VM's negotiating team weren't. |
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Of course, these are people (such as alwaysabear, above*) who probably have no real clue as to how these sorts of negotiations are conducted and whether it might be possible that VM did actually try that but couldn't make it work; or any other of a number of possible scenarios.
(* and me, of course, but then I'm not commenting precisely because I don't know anything about it.) |
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If BT win some of the studio rights from Sky in a bidding war next time, Sky will have to decide whether to have its satellite customers lose out or enter into a deal with BT to share channels. That will help, but what I really want VM to be able to do is to enter into deals with the likes of Netflix and have up to date films and programmes streamed to us on TIVO rather than have to rely on Sky. Sadly, I think that regulation is the only thing that will bring it about and the Competition Commission has let us all down badly in not taking decisive action. |
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And yes, personally, I'd rather have Atlantic than "Sky Sports HD, Sky Movies HD, some Sky basics HD, Sky Anytime and Sky Sports Red Button" I like HD channels, but I'd rather have access to a bigger channel selection than HD versions of existing ones, if that choice has to be made. But why didn't VM see a Sky Atlantic type channel launch coming, or did they and just ignored it? ---------- Post added at 21:19 ---------- Previous post was at 21:06 ---------- Quote:
If Sky's Now TV has an option for a Sky Atlantic subscription, maybe VM should add Now TV to Tivo? In fact, maybe VM could dump their current movies on demand PPV provider and people could buy PPV movies via Sky Now? They could also buy PPV sport via Sky now, which is something VM don't offer currently for Sky Sports content. |
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If I remember correctly it did. Sky originally wanted to pay VM a pittance for the VM channels, but wanted to charge a lot for the Sky basics. In the end, Sky paid the same amount to VM for the VM basics as they charged VM for the Sky basics. |
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When VM decided to sell the channels it was because they decided to focus on their core USP; fast broadband. With BT and Sky now offering that, fast BB is no longer a USP for VM. BT seem to have come to the conclusion that you need content to battle Sky. VM had content and sold it. ---------- Post added at 11:43 ---------- Previous post was at 11:30 ---------- Quote:
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Well that clears that up then :)
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just mean the sky channels as that all the deal can effect and no way would we have any sky HD channel without VM selling the channels as proved here in press link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...l-1991814.html and they doing what they nomally do not letting anyone have the other HD channels like SA F1 ect even more proof if needed |
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But as I said previously, personally, I'd rather have Atlantic than Sky Sports HD, Sky Movies HD, some Sky basics HD, Sky Anytime and Sky Sports Red Button I like HD channels, but I'd rather have access to a bigger channel selection than HD versions of existing ones, if that choice has to be made. |
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This sort of thing just encourages piracy/illegal downloads. I remember reading about the huge UK spike in torrent downloads when Sky and Virgin fell out last time and Virgin customers lost the ability to watch 24 legally.
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I dislike Sky, but from a business point of view they are a success story. The decision to withhold some channels will be based on sound business principles, not spite.
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Sky-Living Sky-One Sky-News Sky-Sports 1,2,3,4 Sky-Movies(all) Sky-Living it Virgin will not give Sky access to its broadband, its VOD service, it has TiVo exclusive...Sky may only give some channels in SD but thats like Virgin saying, Ok you can have access to out network but you're only getting upto 20Mb..But Virginmedia don't even do that. |
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Who wants to tell him?
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Tell him what? The difference between an analogy and a statement of fact? :p:
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M8 since my super duper upgrade to superhub and TiVo I have barely had Internet access for a full week running, always down, on demand down too! Have been told it's a fault in the area that they are trying to sort but it's been about 3 months. Not happy paying over £100 pounds a month for a service I don't get for more than a week running. Apart from that all is well. |
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