Thread: TiVo At last Sky Atlantic concrete news [Not] coming to Virginmedia [Anytime Soon]
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Old 05-07-2012, 19:59   #112
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Re: At last Sky Atlantic concrete news [Not] coming to Virginmedia [Anytime Soon]
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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
No you are a customer of VM , sky sell their channels to VM who in turn bundle them in packs and sell them to you.
Yes I know, muppetman, but most of the Sky TV subscription money goes to Sky. VM are acting as their agents in that respect. You'd think that Sky would have regard to that and not disadvantage us, wouldn't you?

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
Couldn't agree more , BTs fibre network will pass more homes than VM's within the next few years. I agree also that BT could gain access to some of Sky's channels through this premiership deal , it would certainly appear that these two are holding all the best cards however VM have pulled a trump card out before so who knows.
It's not beyond hope that, having succeeded to grab the football rights from ESPN, BT may decide to set up their own bouquet of channels, share them with Virgin Media and try to break Sky's stranglehold on everything you can possibly broadcast.

If BT win some of the studio rights from Sky in a bidding war next time, Sky will have to decide whether to have its satellite customers lose out or enter into a deal with BT to share channels.

That will help, but what I really want VM to be able to do is to enter into deals with the likes of Netflix and have up to date films and programmes streamed to us on TIVO rather than have to rely on Sky.

Sadly, I think that regulation is the only thing that will bring it about and the Competition Commission has let us all down badly in not taking decisive action.
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