Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Old 12-02-2009, 08:05   #260
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Originally Posted by sherer View Post
this is a bit OT but Sky only have about 700,000 HD users which is a very small number of people. Considering VM have less users than Sky and the HD market is smaller you have to look at how many actual HD users VM would have. It's only a small number of people that keep asking on this thread all the time so I don't think the investment is worth it until they can see a genuine return
i would have another check at those figures especially after the £49 sky+HD offer they have been running. the figures now are over 1m either with skyHD or signed up and getting skyHD.

the other thing is that SD TV`s are alomost non existant to purchase retail now which means that the install base of "HD Ready" tv`s is going up every day. with Sky running their HD promotion along side the sale of these HD tv`s then the demand for HD content is growing everyday. to be honest in the last 2 weeks i know about 10 housholds that have swapped to sky due to this HD promotion that were VM subscribers so from my point of view VM are loosing a ratio of 10:1 customers due to lack if HD, infact the original group of us (friends and family) that got VM installed at around the same time there is only 2 of us that have not ran to sky.
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