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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Yes, but the point I was making was that if you can pick it up on Freeview, why do you need it on Virgin Media as well? It's just an unnecessary cost to put on channels for the sake of it.
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VM don't offer a Freeview type tier out of the goodness of their hearts; they do it to bring in telephone and BB revenue, where the money is to be made. That is why at one time taking a phone line with VM automatically included a TV STB.
If some of the Freeview channels are omitted, it means adding a separate PVR for the odd few channels that aren't on VM. (And, as I recall, someone has said that some people don't like too many boxes under their TV
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But (more importantly) if people have to have a second box, then they may as well dump VM TV services, buy a Freeview PVR and source phone and BB separately. Which is not VM's plan.