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Originally Posted by Rillington
Why must it?, and yes it can.
VM always made it clear, did they not, that only Tivo customers will have access to all the Olympic games streams. The Guardian article underlines this. It is my guess that those who are not prepared to pay for Tivo will have what Freeviewers will have - BBC1, BBC3 and the two Red Button streams.
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Because their 3,500,000 non-TiVo customers, who also pay a TV license fee to the BBC will expect they do. If they don't listen to their customers, and what their customers want, then there is a serious problem.
VM did always make it clear that only TiVo customers will have access to all Olympic streams. This however was announced back in December prior to any suggestion other TV platforms would be launching the streams as stand alone channels, available for free to all their customers. Oh and recordable too.
I've got TiVo and V+ in my bedroom. I want to be able to record events that I can't watch live and I don't want to be restricted to where I watch them in my house.
I'm yet to see any posts in this forum today to suggest the arrangement Virgin has with the BBC for the Olympics via TiVo is any anyway better than what Freesat and SKY are delivering. Can anyone truthfully say what has been announced today paints Virgins plans in a good light?
Why can't Virgin deliver what their customers deserve? Why are they only catering to 12% of their TV customer base? Virgin are hiding BBC content behind a paywall by insisting only TiVo customers can get access.
Gold medal goes to SKY, as per usual. Virgin end up outside the medals wondering what went wrong taking flack from their own customers, as per usual.