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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
This is what angers me about VM, it has already been stated on DS that Sky offered Atlantic at a reasonable price, but VM said it was expensive.
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Oh right. And who said it was reasonable? Wouldn't have been Sky would it? How do you know how much it was, how much was "reasonable"?
The fact is we dont know how much Sky decided to offer it for but I'm betting it absolutly wasn't reasonable. Sky, from the very beginning, advertised this as SKY EXCLUSIVE. There was no way they were going to let VM get there hands on it for a while so I would imagine "reasonable" was a ridiculous amount just so Sky could have it both ways. 1) Making sure it stayed exclusive and 2) They could say "well we did offer it to VM and they turned it down".
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Originally Posted by howardmicks
Probably not at what vm call reasonable,But what is there excuse for other hd/sd channels (Universal,Disney,ITV,CBS amongst a few )9 months and all we are seeing is sky arts and red button which were all agreed last year in the sale of there channels.I voiced concerns with ceo`s office several months ago when they sold there channels to sky and they assured me that new channels were coming 6 months later where are they ?
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Me personally, it was important VM pulles there finger out over "FTA" HD, i.e Channel 5, ITV1, CHannel4HD an they've done that at long last.
But as far as the rest go I would rather wait and VM get the best deal than have to pay extra for them.
Lets not forget VM went to court in order to secure SKy Movies and some Sports HD as they were the channels VM viewers wanted the most. Sky red Button coming, Sky Art HD coming, Film4 HD exclusive...
It;s not as simple as "Oh that channel has started we'd better get it, here's a couple of million" VM are NOT in that position financially.