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Old 24-10-2016, 09:09   #689
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Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
Has anybody heard about a new budget brand called 'Red', that provides basic TV & 20meg Broadband?

After what the CEO said about VM TV being more about being an enabler rather than neccesarily providing the content themselves, I wonder if the future for VM TV could be the basic Freeview service with the ability to record and apps for people to subscribe to Netflix, Now TV, Amazon etc??

Far less carriage costs and much fewer negotiations for VM and a commission on any subscriptions taken out via their STB may make this appealing to VM.

For customers, there's no more missing channels like SA and they can choose what channels they want to pay for a la carte.
I am sure that this is the general direction of travel, Richard, as envisaged on the linear channels thread. What you describe here is one of the medium term developments that will lead to a general reduction of linear broadcast TV viewing, which in turn will see a reduction, and quite possibly a total extinction of the TV channels that we currently watch in great numbers.

Pay channels will probably be the first to decline as people stop subscribing to them, in favour of paying into the quality on demand services, which will grow in number. Freeview channels will be more resilient, but they too will eventually succumb to reducing advertising revenues as audiences decline.

There are growing signs that these predictions are coming to pass, and it shouldn't be long now before the most ardent 'deniers' finally acknowledge what is happening to the broadcasting industry.
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