Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Old 17-07-2019, 08:23   #1279
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Won't linear television be gone by the next Sky basics contact? Make your mind up...

Happy to be proven wrong in Prime, although it remains to be seen if they integrate it into their packages or not.

Now I can watch Prime on my Smart TV, Chromecast, Fire Stick, PlayStation 4, iPad, Android phone or on my V6.

Maybe I'm not one of these old folk that rely on TV companies to make choices on what apps I can have
I don't understand your first point. I am talking about the Sky carriage contract that is being implemented any time now. We do not know the duration of that contract. Might be 3, 5 or 10 years, who knows, but I am reasonably confident that Sky's linear channels will still be around in 10 years, although their days may be numbered by then.

I don't believe that Prime will be integrated into Virgin's packages just yet, but when there are more streaming services available, I think they will evetually do so. Sky have already integrated Netflix into their packages by offering it with Sky Box Sets at a discount. I appreciate that you can watch Prime in a variety of ways, but my point all along has been that once launched on Virgin, you will be able to bookmark all shows on your watch list in 'My Shows' on the Virgin menu. It is inconvenient and disjointed to have separate watch lists on each separate service. Much better and efficient to have them all in one place.

I would not want anyone to make choices on what streaming apps I can access either. What I do want is for Sky, Virgin Media and BT to offer the full range of streaming services so that we can make our choices without having to get a multitude of sticks and boxes just to watch them.
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