[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

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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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.



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.



Eh?

I rely on sources more than ever now and you guys to tell me if one of my sources rumoured channels/services did indeed launch as all my tv viewing is all on demand and catch up, it's a bugger when my net goes down though lol which luckily is very very rare with plusnet think i've had 1 outage since i been with them and that was only for 30 minutes.