General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 4.

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by Doug P

I asked this six months ago and was advised that you can drop the landline but that the saving is er not much....

Cheers!

[ocav]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Do we???

Channel - BT Sport (for pulling it out the bag at the last minute)
Poster - BomberAF (for knowing)
Biggest Load of Bull - Anything Sky Atlantic related unless proven wrong within the next few months

[denphone]

Well its all in the eye of the beholder.

[muppetman11]

Genuine question. If the rumours on here are to be believed and for the records I'm not saying they're not and Sky are giving up all their current exclusive channels what becomes Sky's USP and what's in it for them ?

[Mad Max]

I think Virgin will buy them out..........

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Genuine question. If the rumours on here are to be believed and for the records I'm not saying they're not and Sky are giving up all their current exclusive channels what becomes Sky's USP and what's in it for them ?

stupid question perhaps but whats USP stand for...

[denphone]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Genuine question. If the rumours on here are to be believed and for the records I'm not saying they're not and Sky are giving up all their current exclusive channels what becomes Sky's USP and what's in it for them ?

Personally l think the market is changing and thus Sky and Virgin are entering into a period of entente cordiale which will suit both parties as BT are seen very much by Sky as the enemy now and thus doing deals with Virgin is very much to their benefit from a financial point of view but also they benefit from a strong Virgin curtailing some of the threat of BT by having their content on Virgin but with-holding from BT as much as l can thus in the process weakening BT's hand.

[martin201002]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

stupid question perhaps but whats USP stand for...

unique selling point

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Genuine question. If the rumours on here are to be believed and for the records I'm not saying they're not and Sky are giving up all their current exclusive channels what becomes Sky's USP and what's in it for them ?

Think sky are thinking that if anyone is gonna leave for there exclusive channels they will have done already and it's time to take a stack of money off vm and don't forget advertising revenue will go up also

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by denphone

Personally l think the market is changing and thus Sky and Virgin are entering into a period of entente cordiale which will suit both parties as BT are seen very much by Sky as the enemy now and thus doing deals with Virgin is very much to their benefit from a financial but also they benefit from a strong Virgin curtailing some of the threat of BT by having their content on Virgin but with-holding from BT as much as l can thus in the process weakening BT's hand.

i'd agree den they must surely now know that people who are on virgin now arent going to switch now. we lost sky basics we stayed. we dont have sky atlantic we stayed. we had hardly any HD channels we stayed. etc

sky's biggest attraction i think is sport coverage if they lost the main rights to that then they'd lose customers. BT are the threat. They must ensure BT doesnt succeed between now and the next football deals.

the best way to do it would be make virgin seem more attractive so people who won't go to sky and have never contemplated it wont go to BT instead

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

i'd agree den they must surely now know that people who are on virgin now arent going to switch now. we lost sky basics we stayed. we dont have sky atlantic we stayed. we had hardly any HD channels we stayed. etc

sky's biggest attraction i think is sport coverage if they lost the main rights to that then they'd lose customers. BT are the threat. They must ensure BT doesnt succeed between now and the next football deals.

the best way to do it would be make virgin seem more attractive so people who won't go to sky and have never contemplated it wont go to BT instead

Spot on bud post of the day

[Doug P]

Vince spot on.....

[DaMac]

So does that mean they will give us sports 3&4 in HD and 3d now we are best buddies?
Don't think so.

[andy_m]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Genuine question. If the rumours on here are to be believed and for the records I'm not saying they're not and Sky are giving up all their current exclusive channels what becomes Sky's USP and what's in it for them ?

More money from Virgin and a more attractive proposition to advertisers. The strength of the Sky brand will, I'm sure, negate the specific requirement for a USP, but pricing is probably where Sky can win out. Sky Sports, for example, is already significantly cheaper on the Sky platform than the Virgin platform.

[Doug P]

Originally Posted by DaMac

So does that mean they will give us sports 3&4 in HD and 3d now we are best buddies?
Don't think so.

Being best buddies doesn't mean you let them access to your prize assets...