Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Old 24-08-2019, 17:59   #1697
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
No, it's actually the vast majority of the way there - 95%.

I have acknowledged that Amazon could try to link it with their retail operation and pointed out it's a massive ask to turn that into hundreds of millions/billions in profits on the additional items. I've also pointed out that the rights they've got for next to nothing will let them hit the low hanging fruit negating the need for, and impact of, any future investment.

I think by "Why would they invest all that money without doing a trial run first?" what you mean to say is that £5bn or more is a huge amount of money to try out a fundamentally high risk and untested business model. If that is what you meant by that question then I'm happy to agree. It's a massive risk.
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