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Originally Posted by Big-Ted
You really don't get it do you ?
Sky make excess profits and use them to buy rights to movies and VOD for the UK pricing everyone else out of the market unless they have many millions spare to keep going till they get enough subs to cover costs.
Sky have had the VOD rights included right from the launch of their movie channels locking everyone else out.
Its only now that real mega companies look at VOD themselves that they are under threat and IMHO they only have films included in their VOD for no charge is to try to say they are using the content and still block all others getting it.
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Your first point - off course Sky will price out other providers that don't have enough subs to cover the costs. I don't get how it would be in anyones interest if a company that doesn't have enough subs takes on the rights. Then the company (Sky in this case) that does have the subscribers loses out.
So basically what is it that I don't get? That Sky is bad by default? Or that your argument actually implies that anyone but Sky would be better off with the rights even though it is Sky that has the viewers to consume these movies? So basically Sky, who caters to the most pay tv consumers in this country, isn't the best place for these rights?
As for your second point - Sky offer VOD for movies.
As for your third point - they have VOD rights and provide VOD to their customers. Their subscribers enjoy the service. Can't see how that could be bad.