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Originally Posted by passingbat
Well if it did happen, they need to reduce the price for VM users as we would only gain one of the several channels offered on Now TV Entertainment package. We have all the channels except Atlantic.
So VM should pay for Premium sports channels, but not a single NON premium channel? Ridiculous!
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This app would benefit M TV customers, does M+ give all channels (apart from SA) that Now TV does? Anybody know?
It would also enable all customers to get SA for a fiver a month. However, I do expect this to rise in the future as it seems to have been priced to initially pull the punters in. Remember when lots of people had Sky analogue installed? Once people got used to it and liked it, they started scrambling the film channels at night, then all the time, next Sky Sports was hard scrambled and then multi channels arrived where Sky 1 and even QVC was scrambled. As Sky Digital became more popular, price increases became annual at least.
I don't like sport, I was looking at it from a possible VM perspective. I don't know the ins and outs of why VM were prepared to pay what they thought BT Sport was worth and why they don't think that SA is worth what Sky want for it.
I'd say that the Now TV app would benefit everybody:
VM- SA available to their customers at no extra cost to themselves (one downside is that customers may downgrade to TV M). They could also legitimately claim that SA was now available on their platform.
Sky- VM have never allowed Sky to deal with their customers directly, this app gives them the opportunity to do that and raise extra revenue too.
VM customers- They would be able to keep the benefits of TiVo and VM BB and gain access to SA for a small (for now IMO) extra charge. Some customers have indicated that they wouldn't mind paying extra for SA. When the Sky Basics were removed, Sky wanted to retail Sky 1 etc directly to VM customers and some VM customers were in support of this, but VM wouldn't allow it.