Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. II.
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Old 08-04-2011, 21:56   #259
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. II.
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Originally Posted by Horizon View Post
They're not running out of bandwidth, when analogue tv was switched off last year that freed up oodles of space.

VM have explained in their City presentations that some cable areas have less capacity than others due to the different legacy networks of the old cablecos. But VM have never used that as an excuse for not launching new channels.

VM are in 6 billion debt. They have set budgets each year and have to keep to them. When they say they have £200 million budget (or whatever it is) for new services each year including tivo and new channels, they mean it. They cannot just spend an extra half a billion in additional to their set budget for extra channels, because they're in too much debt.

Now we are in a new financial year, means a new budget, means more channel launches. But don't forget that unlike Sky, which has to except all new channels onto its platform, regardless of budgets, VM selects what channels it launches. Cable has always been like this and it always will. If you want the maximum amount of channels, then go to Sky.

Cable will never have the same line up as Sky.
I do, I really do, accept this. However, I also expect that Virgin Media will make up for lost channels with video on demand. I'm afraid that this is where they let us down.

Their limited budget needs to be concentrated on making up for lost channels via this medium.

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Originally Posted by Chad View Post
It's strange that Virgin announce SKY Arts HD 1 and SKY Arts HD 2 then SKY make the following announcement:

http://corporate.sky.com/media/press...s_the_arts.htm

I take it SKY was looking for a way to fund this project and thought time to cash in with those suckers over at Virgin?

Will SKY and Virgin always be in the middle of a PR war?
I don't see anything wrong in Sky promoting their channels. Are we being a tad over sensitive, do you think?
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