Thread: General Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
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Old 10-09-2012, 23:39   #116
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Re: Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
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Originally Posted by zantarous View Post
Content that is on VOD is different from content that you as a provider provide. VM can not use content they have licensed for VOD as a leverage to get something from Sky. And there lies the heart of the matter you can have 1000s of hours of VOD but of that is available all over the place it is hardly a deciding factor.

If VM had Bravo HD, Living HD, Virgin One HD then they may have been able to use that in a bargain to get access to Sky channels. Now it is a case of Sky setting a price and VM don't want to pay it then there is nothing they can do to counter offer.
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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
I'd like to have seen VM hold onto their own channels but streamline it down to a few , personally I think Virgin 1 and Living should have been kept with the others sacrificed. VM were doing a decent job with these channels , Living had gone HD and was exclusive so it would have been possible to do the same with Virgin 1 and maybe keep the HD variants exclusive on the VM platform to use as leverage with other platforms , it would have also helped with channels/content on the move like this TV Anywhere product.
Exactly what I've been talking about.

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Originally Posted by HDFootyMan View Post
I think people are forgetting what VM got out of selling their channels to Sky: Access to Sky HD channels, Sky VOD AND Sky Red button.

If they hadn't sold those channels, this forum would be full of threads demanding the likes of Sky One HD on Cable, as it was before the sale of VMTV.
They should have held something back or had a copper bottomed clause that handled any future sky atlantic type situations.


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Originally Posted by HDFootyMan View Post
Plenty of cable companies around the world do just fine without owning any content.
But are the situations the same in these countries? And out of interest, do they have companies who are both content and service providers, which is the situation with Sky and what is causing the problem?
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