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Originally Posted by Bananaman_007
The Myprime service seems to charge both a monthly and a fee per item. With newer items costing on top of the fee. They will also face a huge battle in the UK to get content. I guess they would have to replace Virgin Movies which i think is a better name.
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If they're going to just copy Amazon, I don't think it will work especially if newer films are charged per item.
What John Malone said in a recent interview, is that he thinks the best way to go about it is to charge for "tiers" of bundled services, basically the same as is now with subscriptions. So, if you take a higher speed broadband bundle you get a higher spec netflix type service. Note, he made no mention of myprime.
So, if you take their top speed bundle you would get myprime "full" with all the latest films, tv shows etc. If you took a lower tier speed, you would get a lower spec myprime with older films and shows etc, but with the option of paying for newer stuff on a pay-per-view basis.
Liberty have said that they don't see Netflix, Amazon as competitors, but yet they have launched myprime... They also said they want to keep the video broadband traffic from over-the-top apps (like netflix) within their own network, rather than paying fees to others. Which they can't do with netflix, but can do with myprime. What is not clear is how myprime, if we ever get it, will sit alongside VM's current video on demand (VOD) offerings.