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Old 25-01-2011, 20:14   #306
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Question Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media
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Originally Posted by Coax View Post
In the short term Sky Atlantic is a loss to us, but AV equipment whether it be TV’s, game consoles, Blue-ray players or the like can provide VOD of some description. Traditional channels like Sky Atlantic will be replace by subscription services from LoveFilms, Google TV, Apple iStore etc and even directly from the producers like Warner TV. Samsung is making exclusive deals for it's AV equipment along with Sony to name two for content to be delivered directly to their products, Virginmedia can’t compete with the likes of these, and all they can provide is the mechanism to deliver the content to these products. Hence the ever increasing broadband speeds. TiVo is their way of linking into some of these potential VOD streams, TV will go global via VOD. You may see TiVo providing VOD directly and not via Virginmedia VOD just using the Virginmedia infrastructure. I think we need watch this space along with Offcom and sit tight!

These are my thoughtS
I'm not sure I even understand that, especially the highlighted bit.

Seek help! These are my thoughts! Just kidding!

What does TV going global mean?
  • I don't want globalisation protesters hammering on my door.
  • I want a flat-screen TV not a globe-shaped one.

What kind of deals are Samsung and Sony making to have content exclusively available on one of their branded TVs or Blu-ray players?
  • I want my TV to show what I want not what Samsung/Sony send to it.
  • When I put a Blu-ray disc or DVD in my player I expect it to play what it says on the box.


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Originally Posted by bethsynboddoc View Post
My feeling is that since sky were compelled to share sky 1 2 3 with virgin, they may well start to migrate popular shows previously viewed on sky 1 2 3 and Channel one to Sky Atlantic in order to gain a market advantage over virgin again, perhaps forcing another legal exchange. Maybe they wont be as devious as this ??
Lately Sky 2 appears to have become more-or-less a repeats channel for Sky 1. At the end of February I believe that Sky 3 will relaunch as Pick TV. So, there's little-or-no original content on Sky 2 and Pick TV sound like it might be a selection of programmes from the other Sky channels. In any case, Sky 3 could effectively disappear from VM altogether depending on whether it ends up as just a re-brand or a shut-down and start-up again.
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