ahardie

This thread isn't the place for this discussion but it's not hard to see why other companies aren't able to do this. They haven't got anything like the money. Virgin Media is in debt. That's why they have sold the channels they already have to give them some cash for investment.
If you can afford to subscribe to two platforms then fair enough but most can't. I did read that Ofcom is maybe looking in to issues that make it easy for customers to swap platforms. i hope channel exclusivity is one of the issues they are looking in to.