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Old 25-03-2014, 18:34   #1728
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Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
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Originally Posted by Dave42 View Post
what I meant is they keep it them themselves rather than take the extra money from other providers for SA if they wanted the money they would have made SA available long ago they wont it will only ever be on sky and now tv
Yes, but you are talking about Sky Atlantic only. Given Sky only have exclusive rights to the first run series, there are other opportunities to show the decent programmes on SA (not that there are that many) via other content providers. If Virgin are able to get these for us from elsewhere, there is no reason why Sky would not prefer to take Virgin's money rather than see someone else collect. That's all I'm saying.

As far as I am aware, negotiations between VM and Sky are continuing over Sky Atlantic, other Sky channels and the proposed new Sky Bravo. I guess whether we ever get Sky Atlantic as a channel will depend how much VM are prepared to pay and how much Sky are prepared to bring down the price to get us to accept Sky Bravo. I rather got the impression that Sky Bravo would not be launched unless it appeared on Virgin Media. So I guess we will see.

All I really want is access to HBO programming. If I have to access those few programmes I want via PPV, I will have to accept that, but I'm still hoping that a subscription deal can be done with Amazon. Unfortunately, I think that avenue may not be available for at least 12 months as the ability to stream to TIVO boxes in a suitable quality may be technically difficult.
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