| mersey70 |
23-01-2011 20:18 |
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
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I was being very brief in my responce.
I think if both Sky and Cable (as 1 company)had the same start time, then things may of been very different.
Certainly BSB was poorly run and managed, but lets not forget that both Sky and BSB were about to go bankrupt. A merger was the only answer for these two.
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suprised at Sky for not letting a competitor have it?
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I am not sure it would have made any difference if the same cable players had launched at the same time as Sky, they were terribly mismanaged but they were a victim of the franchise system, I accept that.
Maybe it could have let them get the killer content first like EPL before Sky, that would have been the huge difference and that's still the case now but would they gone after it anyway? again i'm not so sure.
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
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They were not desperate to sell - Sky gave the best offer, by a long shot.
Amongst other things.....
Sky Movies HD channels - you'd NEVER of got these without this deal
Sky RED button - As above (almost ready on this one)
Sky VoD - as above
Sky1HD - again, Sky would have never of given this to VM without the VMtv sale.
As a consumer you are free to choose what service provider you use, but VM is far from a poor choice.
Sky can't do VOD like VM can, so they only have their own channels as far as content is concerned.
It will be intersting once the Competition Commision has finished it's investigation in to Sky, with-holding VOD rights to competitiors, for movies it can't show.
VM are also persuing a complaint with Ofcom regarding the unfair £7 PER BOX rule that Sky imposes on them.
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I think everyone should hang fire and see what the Competition Commission say regarding the sale of BSkyB, there could be some very interesting conditions laid on News Corp to allow the sale to go through.
There has been press reports that Sky News would be excluded from the sale of BSkyB which would be disastrous for competition as it's a loss making outfit and probably not that attactive as a stand alone purchase. It could be we end up with one domestic news channel, a licence fee funded one at that, hardly competitive is it?
There is no way News Corp are just going to be given BSkyB on a plate which in some respects might be good news for other platforms regarding access to content and the likes.
Regarding the 'unfair' £7 charge that VM are complaining about on what grounds are they basing the complaint? Sky charge their own customers £10.25 per box for HD.
Seems a bit 'good guy, bad guy' to me and another waste of time. I'd rather have Sky Arts HD! |
