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Originally Posted by vincerooney
Short answer to this question: no. Virgin media and sky are not at war. Virgin media is a kitten currently rolling on its back and wanting dominant companies to scratch it's belly. Sky have the advantage over Virgin media due to the fact virgin media don't care whatsoever about their tv packages. They haven't got Atlantic. They're not prepared to pay for Atlantic. Yet keep putting prices up.
Sky know virgin medias game. Maximise profits to sell ASAP. To withhold sky sports to a non threatening organisation like virgin media would be suicide since virgin media are not a threat whatsoever. There will always be some people who will never go to sky and get a satellite dish. Sky created now tv for people like that.
We are completely irrelevant to sky. Sky need help paying off the huge EPL bill. No chance this will happen.
If it does I'll strip naked for this forum whilst quacking like a duck
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Well said.
I think Now TV is a masterstroke and the only thing that can hold it back is Sky getting over-protective about its core satellite revenues. If they keep the pricing reasonable, make the right level of back-end investment and take the streaming channels at least to 720p it has the potential to be a considerable player in the years ahead.