Thread: VM CEO: We don't need HD channels
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Old 29-04-2008, 22:03   #74
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Re: VM CEO: We don't need HD channels
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Originally Posted by kibblerok View Post
Sky could simply give HD boxes away for free, £5 extra per month sub (even free if they dared maybe 18 month contract?) and crush virgin media TV like a paper cup.

Taking that hit now could destroy virgin... and if they gain the TV customers, they're likely to gain the phone & bb as they are likely to move at the same time

VMs head in the sand attitude may well hold now, but its not going to last.
I disagree on that one, the cost to alot of customers in purchasing HD LCD/PLASMA is far to great aleap. Just to get a few sports movies in HD isn't enough. It will be a few years until the vast majority ot mainstream programming will be HD and then the need for HD tv's will be there. At the moment the demand and cost is to much. With Sky you have top pay for the STB, The TV set ups ranging from £700-£1800, for the stand surround ect included, just to recieve a few channels isn't really worth at the moment.

Talking about destrying VM just as you say is shortsighted, ADSL in my view is less of a product than cable broadband,and not knowing much about BT Vision and it's performance, i can only assume with the poor performance of ADSL this is no better.

But i agree VM shouldn't and most likely won't, sit back for the next few years with there, "head in the sand" as you say.
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