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Originally Posted by borrissey
Yeah I'm still hoping we get them one day SA HD and the ITV HD channels.
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My wife likes the look of the new "Awake" series about to start on Sky Atlantic, double page article in the Daily Mail Saturday magazine didn’t help so I am under pressure at home why we are with VM and not Sky! Understand it has had top ratings in the USA so expect Sky viewers will be watching/recording in decent numbers.
It only takes a few top rated series to be on a channel for that channel to be in demand, there may be other rubbish and daytime SA is like any average channels, but put a couple of leading series on the channel and the demand is there.
Just remember the issue VM had with “Lost” viewers on VM when they were in dispute with Sky and Sky One was removed. That is the impact of a single popular series.
So come on VM, do a deal with Sky on SA even if it is SD only and those ITV 2 to 4 HD channels feel really overdue now with increased sport content, etc.
VM are starting to feel second rate again in terms of content. You can have all the features you like on Tivo (I have one) but unless you can watch what you want it is worthless.
One hope I had with Tivo is that it becomes provider independent so content viewing can be from either traditional subscriber channels or Internet based content providers. Not even achieved that yet for films i.e. Netflix, Lovefilms. Appreciate other content providers will take more time and there are the legal issues as well but in the mean time access to content is key!