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Originally Posted by dsmuk
VM never said Sky News and Sports News HD, they only stated Sky 1 and Sky Arts. It was assumed on here that it included the others... remember in Auguest we were being told that Sports News HD would launch on the same day, then 1st Sept and then there was a short delay.
Virgin/Sky press statement did state VoD was part of the deal and that has failed to materialised thus far along with Sky Arts HD.
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Sky VOD should launch very soon now. The removal of the TV Choice bolt on for lower tiers was a Sky demand, if their programming was part of VM's VOD service.
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Originally Posted by telegramsam
Just to echo what`s already been said, sky atlantic will be exclusively for sky customers as their advert says. I would of thought virgin when do their deal to sell their channels to sky would of put a clause in the contract saying they must be offered any new channels,channel name changes or channel merges. As much as I want to see the new channel I wont be switching to sky. I hope Murdoch doesn`t get full control of sky as he has more than enough power already with all his media outlets.
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I think that would be a very hard deal to strike with Sky. More likely access is given on wholesale terms. The price still could be too high for VM to justify to their customers.
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Originally Posted by ahardie
VM would be doing themselves much more of a favour if they were up front about schedules and the reasons for delays. It's possible that red button sports, Sky arts HD and Sky on demand are all scheduled to come this month as per an agreement with Sky. If that is the case wouldn't it be better to tell people and end the speculation. Of course there might be other reasons why Arts HD and Sky ondemand haven't showed yet.
At least with broadband upgrades they are up front about when people will get upgrades. I think VM tv should take a leaf out of that book.
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a lot of agreements will be commercially sensitive. The Sky Red button is in development with VM/Sky.
VM have full control of broadband upgrades and don't have to negotiate with other providers.
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Originally Posted by telegramsam
Virgin must do more to get more hd channels on board other_wise customers will start jumping ship. They must work harder to get new launches on board the same day as sky. ITV2HD,ITV3HD and ITV4HD all have failed to materialise yet which is disapointing. I`m also wondering what virgin are going to do to replace Bravo1, Bravo2,Challenge jackpot, which went of air today, and the soon to vanish channel 1? I agree also that Tivo is too expensive and will have to come down in price drasticly
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Do you want to pay extra for the ITV HD channels? Now that some channels have closed, this may well pave the way for the ITV2,3 & 4 HD channels.