Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Old 11-02-2019, 17:01   #257
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
The problem with your proposal is it takes away one of the advantages to a streamer: to cut out the middleman and retail direct to the end user.

I haven’t seen the most up to date figures but around ten years ago the sum total paid by Sky to third party channels was less than £5 per month per subscriber. There’s going to be little appetite from Sky to change that dynamic in their pricing structure to third parties for run of the mill tv series and some old movies.
Well, clearly, if the rate offered is not worth it to the streaming service, then there wouldn't be a deal.

The fact of the matter is that Netflix is already on VM, Sky and BT; Starz Play is on VM; Hayu is on VM (not sure if it is on Sky or BT yet, but I think it is on Sky) and Amazon is on BT.

This would not be happening if the amount offered was not attractive to those streaming services. This will be the only way to watch TV eventually.
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