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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I don't know why not. At least you wouldn't lose your programmes if you had to change your box.
As long as they are retained for long enough, you are not restricted to the number of shows you can bookmark and you don't have to watch the commercials, I would be happy.
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One thing that I don't like about some VOD services is that you can't see the programme whilst FFing. I like to know where I am in a programme whilst doing this.
I also record some programmes with the full intention of FFing the recording to check if there is anything or anyone of interest to me.
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Originally Posted by Horizon
I suppose the simplest solution would be for VM to say how long we can access "our" recordings in the cloud. After that time, you would either have to download them to your own box or they'd be deleted. Seems the only fair way I can think of how it would be done.
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This would be a fair compromise.
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Maybe only Virgin Media UK deals with both QVC and NDTV are up right now.
For all we know the channels that are broadcasting on Freeview (Your TV, Tru TV and so on) are asking far to much for just one new channel to be added on Virgin Media.
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Originally Posted by theone2k10
Or vm are asking too much?
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True, I imagine that Spike etc want paying to be on the platform, whilst the shopping/foreign channels probably pay to be on there.
I know someone who wanted to put a country music radio station onto cable. He was hoping to be paid for it, but would have settled for a cost neuteral arrangement.
In the end he didn't go ahead as they wanted him to pay them for the privilege of having it on their system!
His stance was that he was enhancing their offering and was prepared to waive any expected fees, their stance was that they would be doing him a favour by having the station on their platform with the increased advertising revenue.
No agreement was reached, so I imagine it's the same scenario.
Would eg Spike be able to cover any cost that they have to make to VM by increasing their advertising rates due to the relatively small increase in exposure to the channel? I doubt it.
It's also very short sighted of VM. By not accomodating such channels, customers may seek them on Freeview or Freesat as I have done and found the FTA offering to be much better than expected.
This is now encouraging me to downgrade from XL and may encourage others to quit Pay TV altogether.