Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35871642)

They are offering half price pretty much all year now funny that if everything's hunky dory like you would have us believe. How many companies would price things at half price if masses of people were chomping at the bit to get it.

Droves leaving , no just choosing to other bother with premiums or at least choosing not to pay at full price.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35871872)

Agreed they are a well run business although I believe ARPU has been pretty flat of late. My point still stands I just don't see Sky breaking the bank next time sure we may see a rise but nowhere near like the last set. In my opinion where we to get another surprise bidder with deep pockets I think Sky would feel confident enough to walk away.

As a platform Sky is attractive enough for any potential winner to want to host it's channels on anyway.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35871873)

This free factual channel has just started broadcasting in 4K on satellite (not currently available to Sky Q customers due to its broadcasting standard*):

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2015/...nment-channel/

I wonder if VM could get this for their 4K customers to watch?

* By default, it would be an exclusive too :D

Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35871909)

They could but it'll cost you a extra £5p/m :p:
Insighthd has been on SKY for a few weeks and it is not fta or ftv.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35871868)

Sky's KPI's in areas like churn and average revenue per user have so far been very strong so their pricing strategy seems to be working for them.

Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35872100)

Source says Viceland coming to vm and bt tv April 2017.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35872016)

Dudes, this STB has cloud storage, a cloud EPG, etc. It is basically a thin client with an MPEG decoder.

Will it impact on your broadband given it uses your Superhub to connect to the network? Probably not: VM have QoS working which will ensure that VoD from the v6 will have its own bandwidth. This capability is needed as part of the voice over cable project, which is nearly sorted.

What this STB will mean is that the reliability of the broadband network has be taken care of as this guy will require 2-way communication with VM to deliver TV services.

VM / Liberty have some busy times ahead, however there are a bunch of projects in progress towards this. The old modems and really old set tops should stop working soon as the kit they connect to is retired, and the newer kit is more reliable, delivers far higher bandwidths, and will be a way better solution.

Much higher upload capacity being delivered too, both through upgrades at headends and hubsites and some network rebuilds.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35872123)

Aren't pretty much all the main providers starting to introduce elements of cloud technology ?

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35872123)

Aren't pretty much all the main providers starting to introduce elements of cloud technology ?

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35871876)

Sky's ARPU has indeed stayed at £47pm but selling Now TV subscriptions won't have helped this figure so the satellite figure is probabkly a lot higher. The mobile launch should help increase this too.

Originally Posted by bubblegun (Post 35872054)

Erm...not quite.

Last years ARPU compared with the previous year was flat.
ie they had added more customers but the ARPU hadn't increased.

Discounting was a big issue for Sky last year. They have reduced ALL discounts for ALL existing customers so the ARPU may increase this year.

Most people are joining Sky Q at full price or with lower Sports and Movies discounts which will also help.

Based on above comments, I wouldn't expect Sky to be bidding big money for Champions League rights anytime soon!

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 35872142)

The benefit that VM has over competitors is that they have a cable tv network to pipe everything over, whereas everyone else doesn't.

How reliable will BT, Sky and Talktalk be with cloud technology driving their tv services, not forgetting they've all got to share BT's FTTC copper wires alongside broadband services? Not much, I'd suggest.