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Originally Posted by JustaBloke
Interesting. The other week I was simply arguing that as a non TiVo user I shouldn't be asked to pay for the development of a TiVo Netflix app. You and a few others rounded on me and said that everyone should pay for the app because 'we all subsidise each others services', regardless of if we're interested in it, or not.
I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that one...  |
The difference is that adding useful apps such as Netflix and Lovefilm could possibly attract new customers to VM.
That is why ESPN was included free on the XL package.
That is why Sky keep Atlantic to themselves.
This is why BT sport is free with a BT internet account.
But there is a difference between the fairly low cost of ESPN on the block rate that VM are rumoured to have paid and the £10 extra that was suggested was added to the price of XL to include BT Sports.
Personally, I think VM missed the boat on Netflix and Lovefilm, as they are both on so many other devices, and it is debateable as to whether they would bring in any extra customers if they were added to Tivo.