Thread: General £3 TV increase but BT Sport Europe is "free"
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Old 07-08-2015, 17:19   #257
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Re: £3 TV increase but BT Sport Europe is "free"
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
But VM is not a TV manufacturer. The reason that TV manufacturers can do it is that they make money from selling TVs whereas VM makes it from selling services. That's a bit like asking PVR manufacturers to just charge £50 because Sky is able to do this. Different business models. And as an aside, TV manufacturers apart from the Koreans aren't making money these days. Companies like Sharp, Toshiba, Philips, Hitachi and JVC have all licensed their brands to other companies whilst Sony and Panasonic have scaled back their loss-making TV arms.
I rule out Now TV coming to VM as it's too much of a substitute for VM's own TV service. I don't rule out Amazon Prime. Nor do I rule out apps like Curzon Home Cinema and TED Talks which are available elsewhere and complement not cannibalise VM's existing content offerings.
Yes, but Virgin would be able to make money through wholesale deals with the streaming providers in the same way as it did with the BT sports deal.

Frankly, if people are going to favour the likes of Netflix over their cable pay channels, they will do it anyway, regardless as to whether it is on Tivo. Whereas if everything is on the Tivo and they upgrade the box so that it works more quickly, more people will be persuaded to stick with VM.
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