Thread: General £3 TV increase but BT Sport Europe is "free"
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Old 20-07-2015, 20:17   #116
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Re: £3 TV increase but BT Sport Europe is "free"
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Originally Posted by harry_hitch View Post
Of course Sky want more people to watch SA, but they they do not really want you watching it via Virgin Media or BT TV. You have SA via Sky OB, no-one else. It makes no difference what streaming device you have bought. Now TV is Sky's streaming service and as such, you have to go through Sky to get it. Sky are not paying Now TV a comission, you are now a Sky customer. Simple as that. VM will never put in on TiVo because there is no business case for them to do so. Why would VM want to make it easier for everyone to pay Sky for Now TV via TiVo? It makes no sense.
You can make the argument either way, Harry.

Given Liberty Global's expressed objective of giving cable customers maximum content from different providers, you could also say that giving us Now TV and all other available streaming services on just the one box, with streaming packages available, could be a USP for Virgin.

I know I am paying Sky for Now TV. I am also paying Netflix for Netflix.

Despite not being able to get NowTV on my Tivo box, I have it on my Roku streaming stick now, and others will do the same or through their gaming consoles. Either way, Sky is still going to get my money, so why should Sky or Virgin be bothered? The USP is the incentive for Virgin to assist their customers to get what they want all on the one box. To my mind, they're missing a trick (or being very slow about it).
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