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Originally Posted by denphone
But you have to admit that cable customers get frustrated by having to wait much, much longer to get these channels.
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And the vast majority of new channels don't appear at all. Correct me if I am wrong but the only brand new channels (not including HD simulcasts of existing channels nor channel swaps such as swapping Pop for True Entertainment) which have been added in the last year or so have been a premium channel (Cinemoi) and a timeshift channel (ITV1 +1) whilst many more channels have been removed, either due to them being closed by the channel's owners or decisions taken to remove channels from VM such as MTV Classic. The removal of these channels is in addition to the removal a couple of years earlier of the former Sky music channels which later became owned by Chart Show Media. VM seems to argue that people only want to access music videos on demand and not via linear music channels which must be the reason why so many music channels have been removed with nothing being added to replace them, underlining my point that VM doesn't see television channels as a priority and that Tivo is much higher up their priority list, second, of course, to broadband with on demand probably being their number three priority and new linear channels being right at the very bottom.
As I said before, VM seems not to consider adding new channels as something it wants to do. That's their decision and people have to decide whether to remain a VM customer based on this decision that VM has made and if people want more channels, including almost every channel launched since VM was formed oour years ago out of the ntl/Telewest merger, then they need to think about getting Sky.