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Originally Posted by Stuart C
You are, of course, assuming that - People upgraded their TVs by choice rather than replaced dead ones.
- People actually wanted a TV for a good picture rather than the fact that it is large and relatively flat (a 40 inch LCD takes a lot less space than even a 28inch CRT).
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I agree with both sides of this. There are plenty of people who got tvs as they were smaller and mums secretly resented these superlarge CRTs in the front room, my parents were the same. I know very few people who have plasmas and LCDs have always been a budget technology that keeps on giving. I don't know many people other than gamers who are really keen on HD but other people who are not enthusiasts do mention it. It is something they want but they aren't that bothered about it and don't want to pay a large amount of money for it. They'd really rather it was there but they won't worry about it unduely. On the other hand it's 2009 and Virgin really have slacked on this. It was acceptable to have 1 or 2 HD channels in 2006 and 2007. 2008 and 2009 it's unacceptable. I think for what bandwidth could be reasonable be expected and contracts signed we should be on about 6 or 7 by now (going up all the time as new HD channels carry on appearing slowly).
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VM haven't stayed rigid. OK, so their DTV service lags severely behind Sky's, but they have advanced in other areas, such as faster broadband (STMed though) and On Demand, neither of which Sky can match.
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I do disagree with this. VOD was innovated by Telewest in 2005. In terms of content and newbies it's stayed very static for much of that time, only starting to improve the last 6 months or so. VOD's great, things have been allowed to wallow in complacency though.