Cable Forum - View Single Post - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2012) Vol. 2.

Perfect Choice · 14-06-2012, 11:15

"Firstly Virgin Media ( for the moment) is my provider of choice ,but I fail to see why ANYONE should be forced to use them if they choose not to"

The "force" comment from me was meant to be VM onto BT to at least have neutral status on what is incuded in an agreement with BT on this new channel, since without that, consumers are "forced" to subscribe to BT to gain all features of the channel. Apologies if missleading. Nobody is forcing consumers to subscribe to a channel except Sky (in the case of HD) and maybe BT now IF you want all the features with that channel.

That is the situation now with the Sky F1/SP3/SP4 channels where to get all features (HD in this case), you can only get that from Sky. The additional interactive features could potentially be an new battle ground where VM loose out? We shall wait and see.

14-06-2012, 11:15	#1121
Perfect Choice cf.geek Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Nottingham Services: Maxit TV, M phone, 200MB BB, V6 TIVO, Super Hub3 Posts: 701	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2012) Vol. 2. "Firstly Virgin Media ( for the moment) is my provider of choice ,but I fail to see why ANYONE should be forced to use them if they choose not to" The "force" comment from me was meant to be VM onto BT to at least have neutral status on what is incuded in an agreement with BT on this new channel, since without that, consumers are "forced" to subscribe to BT to gain all features of the channel. Apologies if missleading. Nobody is forcing consumers to subscribe to a channel except Sky (in the case of HD) and maybe BT now IF you want all the features with that channel. That is the situation now with the Sky F1/SP3/SP4 channels where to get all features (HD in this case), you can only get that from Sky. The additional interactive features could potentially be an new battle ground where VM loose out? We shall wait and see.