Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I am looking at this from a number of perspectives, passingbat. From a personal perspective, yes, I can already get Amazon on other devices, but I don't want to be conducting multiple searches to locate what I am looking for. At present, if the show I'm after is on Nerflix or the BBC i-Player, a search on the V6 will locate it, but if it's on Amazon or any other streaming service, it won't. I don't want to be searching a lot of different sites to find what I'm trying to hunt out.
Secondly, once you find something on TV that you like, how do you ensure you don't forget to watch it at a later date? Well, for anything taken from the EPG channels, you simply record it. If it's on demand, the i-Player or Netflix, I can bookmark it. But for the streaming services not available on the V6, you have to put the programme on your watchlist, and each service has its own watchlist. So I don't want to be looking at lots of different lists to find the programmes I've identified.
Thirdly, from a VM business perspective, surely it makes sense to offer a whole range of good SVOD services. If the V6 was seen as an excellent streaming box, it would be extremely popular and draw more people into VM's system. The more subscribers VM gets, the more money they will have to spend on content and technology while keeping prices down. Of Sky, BT, Virgin Media, Talk Talk and the rest, VM is my preferred platform, but I do worry that it may succomb to the competition in the foreseeable future. To my mind, having a nice range of SVOD services on the V6 will stand the company in good stead and would be an even better alternative to Sky, the main player in the industry.
The way things seem to be going, Sky will beat VM to the post with Amazon and VM will have to play catch up - again.
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