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Originally Posted by richard1960
What if virgin were to carry the same amount of HD they do now on TV XL,but added quite a few more to a new pack for a small charge maybe £5 extra,so current subscribers would not lose out but could if they wanted to take the offer up to pay a bit extra for a lot more HD,just a thought.
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What would happen if Virgin signed carriage deals with channels such as ESPN America HD, SKY Atlantic HD, History HD etc.... in view of creating a new XXL HD package for an extra £5.00 per month on top of the current XL charge but the majority of their TV customers shun the new package as they are not prepared to pay more for TV. Who picks up the tab? Do Virgin just absorb this costly error, or do they put all of their prices up to cover the costs? I feel if Virgin start throwing money at channels, just for the sake of adding them, it'll be all customers who ultimately pay for them, not just the ones who actually receive them in their package. Also if they did create a £5 HD package and you want all HD that Virgin has to offer, you'll have to pay £13.00 per month which I understand would make it the most expensive HD package in the UK, Europe and possibly the world. Even then you still wouldn't have all the channels that SKY offer.
SKY use the tagline "Believe in better".
Virgin would have to use "Pay more for second best".
The points raised in recent posts have pretty much been covered in the following thread all ready:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...l-package.html