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Originally Posted by heavyside
The new upcoming channels are welcome additions but the ones I really want to see are Sky Atlantic and the missing ITV HD channels. Sports fans would probably add Sky F1 HD, Sky Sports 3 and 4 HD and Eurosport 2 HD to that list. I wonder if any - or all - of these might be coming our way once the Liberty Global dust has settled?
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Liberty Global (can I call them LG?) have no intention of changing VM's current relationship with Sky, who I'm sure would want to keep the HD versions of SS3, SS4 and SSF1 as unique selling points to potential Sky customers.
What might change is LG's ability to bid for content on a European basis - even then, the existing contracts for that content would have to expire, and I imagine that most of the 'good' ones are currently held by Sky.
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Originally Posted by Top banana
Neil Berkett said that VM were looking at a cloud approach at a recent event he spoke at. Said gets over the issue of lost content when a box goes faulty, gets content onto multiple devices simply and brings down CPE costs big time. His view was 2015. However he may of known he was stepping down when he made that comment :-)
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Cloud PVRs are the future. One would hope that any long-term content deals that VM are considering/signing would take that into account. We don't want another MRS-style scenario where only a handful of channels can be recorded into the cloud.