Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Old 12-02-2009, 10:03   #264
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Originally Posted by joff81 View Post
those figures were taken before December 31st as thats when the presentation was made and thos out of date figures produced. since then (beginnig last week of january this year) there has been a big promotion on SKY+HD (sky+HD box for £490. the best part is the normal sky+ box is still £75 so its ceaper to get a sky+HD box. infact its so big that there is a 8-10 week waiting lost to actually get sky+HD installed. people are leaving VM by the dozen as i said i know 10 housholds in the last 2 weeks that have left due to this offer alone and it does not need a genius to work out that VM are loosing lots of customers due to lack of HD and Sky`s big promotion on HD.

people wanting HD due to this offer has grown beyond what even sky predicted so much so that they cant keep up with demand. also the offer gets better as if you buy a HD tv from selected stores (currys, PC world, Asda etc) the Sky HD offer is only £29. jsut by looking at this alone you shold know fine well that the numbers will be well over 1m by now just to promotional sales alone.
AFAIK those are the latest figures available from Sky. You also have to allow for churn, just because someone signs up to a new deal for HD doesn't mean they will see out the contract and also people could be coming to the end of their deals \ contacts and due to the credit crunch could be leaving Sky. Until Sky announce any new figures I will stick with those rather than a made up figure based on what your mates and yourselves have done. That's why Sky don't announce figures all the time, as yes new people sign up, but also people leave.

According to Sky, churn is currently at 10% and with the credit crunch there is a chance this could get even higher

The VM 2008 results don't come until next week.
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