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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
You and others may have no wish to abandon VM at the moment but you don't know what is around the corner. Your financial circumstances may change and instead of downgrading to the basic M pack you may decide to switch entirely to Now TV. That's easier to do if you already have a relationship with Now TV and they make you repeated great offers to switch.
You may not be alone but even 100 people on a forum is not a representative sample of VM's 3.5m TV customer base.
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If my financial services changed to the extent that I had to make a radical reduction in my TV expenses, I would be looking at all options anyway, regardless of what I could access from my Tivo. I would be likely to go for the basic Virgin package + Now TV via my Roku regardless.
I think enough people know about the Now TV option. Whether or not it is on Virgin Media is unlikely to influence existing customers to reduce their package with Virgin. Yes, there is channel duplication, but I have chosen to accept that irritation in order to access the material I want. Many VM customers are doing the same.
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
I believe that in five years or so Sky will be delivering it's TV service on a platform like Now TV.
If the Fox takeover happens customers will be offered the Sky and Fox portfolio of channels with a greater prominence for On Demand.
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Spot on, Muppetman - that is exactly what Fox are reported to be planning to do. A better streaming service along the lines of Netflix is on the cards if this deal goes through.
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Originally Posted by DaMac
How many of VM's 3.5m TV customers are Active TV customers? Most people have the TV service forcibly pushed on them and are on no higher than M or M+ package, are these people truly representative of VM customers who actively buy a TV package? I would say not.
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Forcibly pushed on them? No way. You're thinking of the landline, surely?
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Originally Posted by jj20x
Sure, there are people out there willing to pay £6.99/mth on top of their VM subs just to get Sky Atlantic / ITV Encore but it isn't good value for money. Sure, Now TV has lots of offers and the entertainment pass is available for less but with a lot of messing around chasing for deals.
There's a lot of duplication of channels available on VM within the entertainment pack, I can't see VM wanting to make it available as a Tivo app. On balance we see more people on here complaining about price increases than the lack of Sky Atlantic. Adding a service that duplicates some of what is already available in a lower cost package would just be giving Sky a free advert to attract VM customers wanting a cheaper deal.
As for a Now TV app specifically tailored to VM and excluding sports and movies. That's not what Now TV is about and there are 2 problems on that front; VM won't want it potentially stealing their customers. Sky won't want to offer a reduced package, their marketing policy is to get Now TV users to add the other packs.
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If people simply made such decisions on the basis of cost alone, they could still stay with Virgin, cancel their Sky Movies pack and get the Entertainment and Movies passes with Now TV and save money each month, but they are not doing that, are they? People are prepared to pay over the odds for Sky Atlantic in the same way that sport fans pay stupid sums each month for their fix.
These days, people may have given up going on about Sky Atlantic because Virgin do not seem to be listening. It's certainly not that they don't want it.
As for Sky not being prepared to tailor Now TV to offer only one pass on Now TV on Virgin's platform, isn't that exactly what Talk Talk did?