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Originally Posted by theone2k10
This year you can look forward to more international channels as VM want to branch out more to their Asian customers etc, also expect huge changes in their on demand services.
I'm also under a do not disclose order at mo but something very exciting is in the pipeline for you guys that's all i'm allowed to say.
No it is not Sky Atlantic either lol  |
When the VM engineer came to install my V+ some years ago, he said he was surprised that I had both Sky and VM. I explained that I had fallen out with Sky, but had kept the box to avail myself of the FTA channels and as an emergency back up should the VM network ever go down (has happened just the once).
He said that the only places he'd ever seen both in a set up was in asian households. He explained that the pay channels on VM were better value for them (VM have a special package for asian customers), but that they needed satellite to access FTA channels or for pay boquets not available on VM. VM have a special package for asian customers.
As I say this was several years ago, so I don't know if the situation has changed or not. If VM are improving their asian packages, they may be able to get this community to cut out Sky/satellite altogether. It just goes to show that, whilst on their own, minority channels may not seem to make VM any money, they do help when the bigger picture is looked at.
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Originally Posted by andy_m
Good, the on demand service has been poor relative to Sky for a while now. It used to be a Virgin usp.
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Very true. I'm surprised that VM have passively sat back and allowed Sky to erode one of their USP's in such a way.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
...And if VM gave in and paid silly money, I wonder who would be the first to moan about the price hike that would go with it?
Sky are the bad guys here, not VM.
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Agreed. IIRC Sky want something like 23p per week per subscriber for SA, basic channeks usually get a matter of 1 to 3 pence. This figure sounds like nothing to obtain SA, but that 20 to 22 pence premium adds up to a significant amount out of the channel budget allocation and would set a very bad precedent.
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Originally Posted by harry_hitch
Is........Manchester United V Cambridge United.......KER-CHING ;-)
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Eh?