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Originally Posted by ahardie
Sky always say HD when they mention channels. I've seen sky customers complain that if you were to go by their advertising their content isn't available on sd channels. I really don't know how much clearer they could be when they say they are using this channel to further grow the content gap between themselves and other platforms.
The rest of your post and subsequent posts just seem to be taking the side of a company who are misusing their dominant position to the detriment of the general public. Like Mersey70 has said, with a bit of luck this might looked in to the competition commission who will hopefully take into account the interests of us customers and not Just Sky's interests. Whatever happens Sky will be laughing all the way to the bank. If they were to make this channel available to all platforms they would make more money out of it but they wouldn't be using their dominant position to poach customers off other platforms. And wouldn't that be more advantageous to us customers?
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VM have been trying poach customers from Sky too though. That is just the way the market works.
Sky have made available Sky 1 HD, SS1 and SS2 HD, Movies in HD and will be making red button available to VM soon. So contrary to popular belief Sky aren't actually hogging their material and the content did eventually be made available to VM.
Also please look at VM's pricing structure. It is not compatible with Sky's pricing structure. There can never possibly be competition wholly on a platform basis until VM drop its free HD to XL customers for basic channels. This will lead to either price increases for VM customers or loss of channels that are HD. The reality is that consumers are probably in the best place right now or possibly close to it.
And like I said before, VM sold its channels to Sky because it wanted to. No regulator is seriously going to look into basic packages knowing that the two main pay tv providers are happy with the market place and are offering competitive packages.