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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
Chartwell is asking a lot of commercially sensitive questions from VM, also comes across a little rude/patronising?  |
VM have the option to not respond - and perhaps it is slightly patronising, but when a company takes seven months to deliver on its promises, perhaps stakeholders are entitled to be somewhat frustrated, as VM could be seen as holding customers in contempt by saying one thing and not delivering.
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Originally Posted by HDFootyMan
What, did people think that the deal would cover all future Sky basic channel launches? Seriously?
Sky Atlantic didn't even exist when VM did the deal with Sky.
To be honest, I'm surprised that people are surprised. What business would do a deal with a rival which gives that rival access for future content/products as soon as their released?
Its like Sony asking Microsoft for Fable Basics on the PS3, and then being annoyed 3 months later when Fable III launches as an exclusive for the Xbox 360.
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VM said in their press release the wholesale agreement covered
any of Sky's basic HD channels. As for SD, they claim a wholesale agreement for Sky's basic channel line-up, of which Sky Atlantic is about to be one of them.
As I intimated, perhaps VM thought any meant any, and the basic line-up meant the basic line-up, but their lawyers ballsed up and it doesn't mean anything of the sort.
This has been discussed many times on here by many of us who know nothing of the details. I have asked the people that know. Of course they will only disclose what they want to, and I suspect I will be none the wiser. It cannot hurt to (a) ask the question and (b) register my displeasure at the below par tv offering from VM.
As for your analogy, that isn't quite analogous as Fable III is not a basic product free to all Xbox subscribers like Sky Atlantic is for Sky. If Xbox gamers got Fable and all of the future Fable games for free as part of a "Xbox basic" package and Sony secured access to this package for their PS3 gamers too, then Sony would be entitled to be agrieved if the Xbox basic package changed to have a game different to Fable, but the PS3 gamers were left with nothing. The Xbox basic pack still exists, but the ingredients have changed.