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Originally Posted by cityfan247
i am glad Premier Sports has been made available at last on VM.
i will enjoy the 'free' period and watch some NHL.
After that i will not be subscribing simply because at £7.99/£9.99 pm it doesnt represent good value to me. But freedom of choice and all that ;people at least have the option to subscribe or not. Will be interesting how many subscribers the channel attracts on VM in the new year.
i am a bit disappointed VM and PS (and Netflix for that matter) could not thrash out a deal to include it in a pack such as XL. Now i know non-sports fans (what is up with these people anyway ?  ) would moan that they would be subsidising this and BT/ESPN but i refer to a previous post if VM could have got PS and Netflix in a pack such as XL they could have covered the cost with a nominal price increase in the pack. Netflix would give the non-sports fans their 'value' . For me all parties gain- Netflix and PS probably get more £ than as standalone subscriptions, VM's top tier pack represents even better value for most XL customers and probably gains more subscribers. I understand PS have wanted a deal like this before but have wanted a bigger % than VM have considered acceptable. A small price increase done in a way that many would see as good value may have been a way to satisfy all parties)
I may be wrong in that assumption and can only speak for myself but if the XL pack (or maybe a new pack called say XL+) had the current content + the new rumoured channels + PS + Netflix i would be willing to pay more ( maybe a couple of quid maybe up to a fiver) as i would regard it as good value. Perhaps we could do a poll to gauge people's opinion? |
As a "non-sports fans (what is up with these people anyway?)" person, I actually had no problem adding BT sports to XL as it is a high profile channel and will help with take up of VM
But adding another Premium sports channel, full value £10p/m would have been a step too far, especially as even sports fans don't seem to rate it's content that highly.
If they were going to add another premium service, it should have been Netflix. That would be a fair balance for sports fans/non fans, and would have had the same effect as BT sports in attracting new customers to VM.