Thread: General Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
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Old 30-01-2014, 19:19   #737
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Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
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Originally Posted by jj20x View Post
Yes, of course, but the point I was making was that if Tesco entered into such an agreement with the fuel companies it would be a cartel operating in restraint of trade and the courts would swiftly bring that arrangement to an end. Why is the tv market so different?
The problem here is that all these comparisons with supermarkets are nonsense. I can take my grocery list to Sainsbury's, Asda, Tesco's or wherever, and I would be able to buy the products I wanted in any of them.

The thing about Sky Atlantic is that Sky have bought all these exclusive rights and nobody else gets a look in. As I've said before, I am happy with VM, Sky, BT or whoever putting on their own exclusive channels, but the programmes and films should not be exclusive (except maybe for a maximum of 6 months).

Sky Atlantic shows Game of Thrones. What other channel provider can do this? The answer is none, of course, and that is wrong.
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