| RichardCoulter |
15-10-2015 03:39 |
Re: Services been restricted
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
(Post 35803152)
Sorry to be blunt here but Virgin Media is a pay TV platform. They are under no obligation to provide any TV services for free.
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AIUI, their franchise agreements do not allow them to encrypt channels 1-4 (1-5 in some areas). In practice VM don't encrypt 1-5 anywhere as well as some other channels.
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Originally Posted by telegramsam
(Post 35803285)
Maybe the BBC channels are there as part of the licence fee? Incidentally don`t Virgin Media get paid to carry the free to air channels? Thought I read that on here somewhere
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I once asked why some channels were broadcast Free To Air and was told that, apart from the legal obligation to do so for 1-4/5, it was because if the encryption system developed a fault and no channels could be unencrypted, at least customers would have something to watch whilst it was sorted out. In addition, it wouldn't be morally right to cut off BBC services as the customer will have already paid for these via their TV licence. All BBC channels are, therefore, FTA.... apart from BBC Parliament for some reason- perhaps this has different funding arrangements??
VM don't get paid to carry PSB channels- their licence dictates that these must be supplied on a 'cost neutral' basis.
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Originally Posted by techguyone
(Post 35803410)
It's clearly an error, I recently asked to downgrade to the 50p/month freeview virgin package as I don't really watch TV and it was costing me a lot, I just looked, my freeview includes pick & Challenge, the only downside was having a Tivo box forced on me, it really is slow crap and nasty, I quite liked the simple HD Box before.
I still get catch up too!
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TV M isn't the same as the restricted service for non payment- it has more channels and broadly reflects what's on Freeview. |
