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Originally Posted by jfman
I don't have anything against more choice per se.
However you could end up in a ridiculous situation where content splinters so much that only a tiny number of people benefit from 'new' entrants offering near similar products.
In a hypothetical scenario if all of the major content companies (Disney, Viacom, etc) decide they'd prefer to market their own content at £6-8 per month the vast majority of people would be worse off overall than the status quo.
If Virgin, Sky etc can wholesale the content and an additional standalone service is offered, then that's the best of both worlds. However I fear the streaming future is just going to leave the vast majority paying for a basic TV service, plus three or four add ons, to be worse off while trying to maintain the same quantity/quality of content they have at the minute.
In reality for those who don't want to pay huge amounts the choices have never been better with Netflix, Amazon and Now TV.
I'm not sure what value Lionsgate, Disney, Viacom, etc. would bring to the market with separate standalone offerings that aren't bundled with Sky, Virgin etc.
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Completely agree.
I don't what to end up in a situation where to maintain access to the same range of content that we get now from a single Virgin TV package, we end up having to subscribe to multiple different streaming services.