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So why aren't they making it available? Why don't they make Anytime+ available on other ISP's?

You really think that Sky won't try to use/abuse its dominant position as movie/TV content rights holders to prevent others getting in on the action?

See above re: dominant position ...

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SKY will try anything to try and dominate the market to their favour. You are able to see this with SKY ATLANTIC ( taking HBO on demand off of VM ). This is my opinion and i have to say that if you do not agree id do not give a castlemaine xxxx:D:D:D:D

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Spot on, as you say Amazon and Google are making noises about going all out on subscription VOD this year starting in the UK, that will blow the market wide open. I don't think Sky will have the option of buying all the rights up for much longer, two bigger fish have jumped into the pond.

It's also worth pointing out that Sky aren't necessarily only under investigation for the effect of their exclusive movie rights on customers but on the movie studios themselves. Sky are using their power to pressure smaller movie studios into selling the rights at below market value thus cutting them out of the profit.

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I think Sky should be made to give VM everything for free , make no operating profit and then pass their 10 million customer base over to VM for free LOL :-)

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Anytime+ is available for people to use should they take up the service. It is not uncommon for companies to bundle their products. It is up to Sky how they deliver the product. If they wish to bundle it they are within their rights just as much as BT is to bundle its tv within its own products.

How can Sky abuse their position exactly? Its an open market. No content provider cares if they sell to Sky or someone else as long as they get the best return. Like has already been mentioned, there is potential for organisations to compete with Sky.

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Nooooooooo :shocked:



10 million more ahead of me in the que for TiVo :mad:



Let the demons stay with their dark lord :p:

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LOL

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Have you actually read the OFCOM papers?

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You really don't get it do you ?


Sky make excess profits and use them to buy rights to movies and VOD for the UK pricing everyone else out of the market unless they have many millions spare to keep going till they get enough subs to cover costs.


Sky have had the VOD rights included right from the launch of their movie channels locking everyone else out.


Its only now that real mega companies look at VOD themselves that they are under threat and IMHO they only have films included in their VOD for no charge is to try to say they are using the content and still block all others getting it.

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Yes I Have. I haven t outright said I disagree with it was merely stating sky do show movies via VOD.

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Can i just say that the competition commission on their working papers have said on their working papers that SKY have had the most out of investing in the first part of all their sports and movies. So I am waiting until April ( unless they need more info on this ) to see what they have to say on the matter and what will be?

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Yes, it's best to wait and see what the CC say.

But I agree with the earlier poster, Sky certainly do make use of their movies OD rights (be that by pull or push VOD) although I accept no one else currently have access.

We'll see.

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Not sure it had anything to do with Sky. HBO On Demand is still available on BT Vision and they continue to add new shows to the service including The Pacific and, from next year, Broadwalk Empire - http://www.btvision.bt.com/tv/the-be...-on-vision-tv/

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My understanding is there are no plans whatsoever to remove HBO content from BT Vision, on the contrary as you highlight.

It was just a myth being bandied around that it was getting removed when VM had it removed so perhaps it wasn't at Sky's orders we lost it. It wouldn't appear Sky have HBO OD content exclusively anyway.

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This was my point exactly , Sky do use VOD to deliver there movies as to the unfair practice that's for the powers to be to decide. In my experience Sky get blamed for everything on here , I don't like some of their practices but they cant be blamed for all VM problems.