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Originally Posted by Stuart C
One MAJOR difference between Sky and Virgin. Sky do not own (and therefore would not have had to pay to replace) their boxes. You say that VM only have 3-4 million customers. They do. However, each box would cost at least £20-£30 (I don't know the actual cost, so I am speculating conseveratively) to replace, so the hardware would cost at least £60 million. That is without factoring engineering or delivery costs, which could easily push the cost over £100 million.
Simply put, VM cannot afford to spend that much.
The encryption, well, IIRC, Sky have an advantage there too. They bought the company who provided theirs.
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at least we agree that stb`s dont cost 250 like they try and say