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Originally Posted by Horizon
Well, here's a coming soon item just to interrupt the back biting on here, VM's bosses are to award themselves up to 100% of their base salaries. Not bad for a company in several billion pounds worth of debt...:
http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php...-up-again.html
Clearly, VM is no better than its predecessor companies and although we've had the recent launch of ITV on demand we've had no new channels launched on the platform since August last year when the +1s of Hallmark and Diva appeared. This excludes the launch of Sky's channels in November which were simply a reinstatement of missing channels.
So nothing new since August, HD is coming "soon", as it always is. The basic functionality of of using cable tv is as crap as ever, channel change is still slow and only 1 day of tv guide data and that's when it works. But yet VM's bosses have enough money to spend on themselves.
Cable is still "the best platform" or will be "soon", but yet cable insiders have been saying this for 20 years now, when cable first started...The sooner a viable and large enough fibre optic competitor(s) comes on the scene, the better. |
Good find Horizon, there certainly is something sickening about the fact that we mere customers have just had another increase in prices, just as top brass at VM award themselves bonuses of up to 100%
As the link says, countless CEOs of VM, Telewest and NTL, all of which to a man has failed, have walked away with fat golden handshakes for being a failure.
Each of them telling us how great the network is, and to a man each one of them promised jam tomorrow, but tomorrow has never come.
One of these "failures" came up with the statement in 2005 that soon would be dozens of impending HD channels on the network...four years later VM still have only one HD channel.
Hopefully the shareholders will put a stop to these money grabbing failures, nowadays its accepted that bonuses should only be payed to successful executives, how they justify up to 100% bonuses for themselves in the current economic climate will be entertaining indeed.