Thread: General Changes to Virgin TV (2021)
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Old 28-12-2021, 19:17   #1969
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Re: Changes to Virgin TV (2021)

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Originally Posted by Carth View Post
You'll always pay for Premium content, no matter how it's delivered.

The lowest TV packages from VM and Sky are probably just glorified Freeview but with a box that allows recording/add skipping.
Quite expensive over an 18 month contract considering the price of a 3rd party freeview recorder that will do the same.

What would happen if (bloody big if) freeview gained the contract for major sports and 'new' movies . . . it sure wouldn't be free, but would still be sent over 'normal' channels, not streamed.

You could then still pay out for your 'streamed' Netflix, Amazon, Britbox etc on top . .
Nice idea, unfortunately nobody is going to pay hundreds of millions for sports rights and give them away on Freeview (how would they recover that money?) - if they did I would be forever grateful.

The best we can hope for is that the greedy sports such as EPL gave rights to 1 game a round to terrestrial channels - however again very unlikely to happen.
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