[Rillington]

Originally Posted by passingbat

I am actually a very big supporter of VM. VM are in competition with Sky for customers.

This is why I get frustrated with VM when their slowlnes in doing things damages their chance of customers choosing VM over Sky. Or even loses customers to Sky.

Sky Rule the roost on TV channels; that's a given, and it does frustrate many loyal VM customers, but they put up with it as part of the trade off for other aspects of VM that are better than Sky. But having second class TV channels is probably their major gripe (read these forums). So, when Sky announce they will be adding linear Olympic channels and VM don't make the same announcment, given a history of Sky getting a new channel and VM not getting it, people are concerned. For this reason, VM need to clear the air on this ASAP and it is why I am so vocal about it. Yes, the Olympics are a few months away, but the battle for the platform the viewers will watch it on is now.

Excellent post, and I totally agree with what you've written.