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mainlime · 03-03-2007, 01:03

I don't think it will be good for consumers. If Sky get, for example, 24 and Lost and VM get Simpsons and Battlestar and you're a fan of all of those you need to subscribe to both Sky and VM to stay up to date. Or you just say nuts to the both of them, get Freeview and download torrents of the TV shows you want to watch which of course makes you a criminal like a car thief according to the DVD trailers.

In a roundabout way this might be what VM are going for. Maybe they have correctly forseen a future in which TV schedules are a thing of the past and we all watch what we want to watch when we want to watch it. I think there's going to be a messy intermediate stage if this is where we are going.

For the meantime I'll stick with VM and see where Branson's new approach will take us but I'm hoping it's more Virgin Megastore and less Virgin Trains. Even he can't get the hang of putting enough carriages on the damn things that I don't have to stand in the corridor outside the toilet every time I travel on one.

EDIT: The deals for new customers idea is all well and good but what about existing customers? Are we to carry on getting ripped off?

03-03-2007, 01:03	#4
mainlime Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Warwickshire Posts: 40	Re: So Its War .. good or bad for us the customer? I don't think it will be good for consumers. If Sky get, for example, 24 and Lost and VM get Simpsons and Battlestar and you're a fan of all of those you need to subscribe to both Sky and VM to stay up to date. Or you just say nuts to the both of them, get Freeview and download torrents of the TV shows you want to watch which of course makes you a criminal like a car thief according to the DVD trailers. In a roundabout way this might be what VM are going for. Maybe they have correctly forseen a future in which TV schedules are a thing of the past and we all watch what we want to watch when we want to watch it. I think there's going to be a messy intermediate stage if this is where we are going. For the meantime I'll stick with VM and see where Branson's new approach will take us but I'm hoping it's more Virgin Megastore and less Virgin Trains. Even he can't get the hang of putting enough carriages on the damn things that I don't have to stand in the corridor outside the toilet every time I travel on one. EDIT: The deals for new customers idea is all well and good but what about existing customers? Are we to carry on getting ripped off?