Thread: General Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
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Old 03-01-2014, 12:45   #43
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Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
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.

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.
Richard, this is never going to happen. If VM did allow viewers to pay a premium for SA, it would be done by simply adding it to the range of their TV packages. It would not be included as a 'Now TV' app.
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