Thread: VOD Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Old 28-04-2019, 13:52   #770
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Originally Posted by denphone View Post
Its more biased bollocks that is why as both Sky and Virgin have posted TV subscriber increases in their last quarterly figures.
Here's something interesting - probably will get reported as 'off topic' - according to the BARB cable in the UK peaked in Q3 2013.

https://www.barb.co.uk/tv-landscape-...y-tv-platform/

4.17 million households.

However, our good friends at Virgin Media made disclosures to the stock exchange saying something different.

http://www.libertyglobal.com/pdf/fix...ease-FINAL.pdf

3.74 million subscribers.

For completeness, Virgin also state in a footnote that the 3.74 million includes those who don't pay a recurring monthly fee for a television service but have a STB alongside telephone/broadband service (equivalent of the old TV M package) and that 89% of the TV base do pay a recurring monthly fee for TV.

It's actually quite difficult to estimate these figures which is why I'm curious to know what the source was and where estimates were used on what basis they were arrived at.
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