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Originally Posted by weesteev
No investment?? What about the £100m+ investment in migrating the 3 legacy headends to one super headend and migrating over to NAGRA3... that was no mean feat. What about the investment to upgrade the analogue areas of Bolton, Leicester, West London and Derry to all Digital. What about the 20+ HD channels that have appeared in the last 18 months. What about the vastly improved Cisco VHD box. What about TiVo. What about an affordable Tivo in the summer. What about Red Button launching as promised.
Do you think that someone thinks of a product and its delivered in a few weeks? Red button functionality, like TiVo is a massive technological change to the distribution network, Cable TV in its current form in the UK cant match the broadcasting bandwidth of satellite until further changes are made. The company certainly isn't doing nothing and I find it insulting that you suggest so. As a member of this forum then surely you must have seen the endless TiVo, HD, Nagra3 threads to be aware that changes are happening... and all happening to provide a stable and secure future for the company.
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You're punishing the customer for solving logistic problems that were not of their making and they have so far seen no improvement as a result of having been solved.
From a customers point of view:
Sky has every channel available
Virgin has quite a few crucial gaps
Sky are rolling out an On Demand service with considerable new content regularly
Virgin's offer seems, frankly, stagnant
You've absolutely no right to be congratulated for rolling out Digital services, this is way overdue.
Rollout of NAGRA3 has absolutely no benefit to the customer.
Merging the headends has absolutely no benefit to the customer.
The pace of change at VM is glacial. Nevermind TiVo (great for anybody who wants to pay for equipment they don't own), what about all the customers who are stuck with Scientific Atlanta V+ boxes which only get slower. When are they going to be upgraded? This year? Unlikely!
These are customers who have patiently waited for 4 years+ for software updates which have never come. Whenever I go home and have to face using my parent's V+ over my Sky+ it's a bloody nightmare - the EPG (running at a speed comparable to ONdigital in 1998) and recording capacity are beyond a joke.
The party line that the company isn't investing in linear channels like Sky Atlantic but is continuing to invest in VoD is frankly tosh - the VoD lineup has less that I want to watch everytime I confront it, and I'm not the fussiest of viewers.