Originally Posted by Telly_

So there you go, you can have Premier sports but you can't afford it(nothing to do with Sky),Virginmedia have been free to buy in ITV2,3,4HD for over a year(nothing to do with Sky) you could have Atlantic and Skysports 3/4 in HD but can't afford it.

You give HD for free, Sky charge £10.25, if Virginmedia had a HD fee then they would be able to afford the extra channels. It Virginmedias choice to offer HD inclusive in XLtv. If that leaves their pockets a bit short then blame VM's bean counters for making a bad decision.

This report has really given the customers good information.

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If you had of read it you would see your "Sky withhold channels" argument you've been spouting out for years has just been blown out the water.


Virgin customer have the right amount of content at the price point they pay, more premium content is out there but they may have to pay more.

Originally Posted by Hugh

Then how is it Sky Atlantic is not available to Smallworld or BT?

Originally Posted by Telly_

To be fair if Sky do keep just one channel for themselves even you can't begrudge that.

Other wise you just end up with an unfair playing field where all content is the same but every VM customer has the option of 100Mb and Sky's offering may only be 3Mb.

If in VM areas Sky could resell VM cable then I suspect VM would have Atlantic, But Sky need its USP. Just like VM have superfast broadband.

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What things do they do time and time again? An what is this "track record" you always chat about. The only network I see that 100% withholds access to its services is Virginmedia.

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Sometimes its seems in my opinion virgin want ALL sky content Cheap, to resell BT services, to have exclusive use of TiVo.

But they dont want anyone having access to any of there products or services deliberatly withholding access to its cable network forcing customers to choose VM if they want fast broadband.