General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Dave42

so you would pay a premium for a basic channel Den what you think sky would do if they paid a premium for a basic channel prices would shoot up much more

It's not a basic channel ???? Only in your opinion bud only thing your gonna see under lg is additional cost channels,not much negionation needed to get a channel your customers are gonna pay the extra for

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Dave42

of course it is sky even say that what more proof to you want

Well even sky under value it then bud,because it help keeps a lot of there customers and also persuades people not to switch to vm

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Dave42

so you would pay a premium for a basic channel Den what you think sky would do if they paid a premium for a basic channel prices would shoot up much more

But it is not a basic channel to many as it has some excellent series on there and thus quite a few customers in my humble opinion would be willing to pay a little extra and it would be good to have that choice in my opinion.

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Dave42

tell that to sky Howard they class it as a basic channel or it be in the sky premium charge

the channel so good that 90% of sky customers don't watch it

End of day bud it's people choice you like your sports and I like best of us tv shows,I would rather pay a couple of quid extra to get sky Atlantic than pay extra £7 for channels I already get and personally sky sports 1+2 Are the only ones I watch and as for f1 (don't even know the channel number lol)

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by denphone

But it is not a basic channel to many as it has some excellent series on there and thus quite a few customers in my humble opinion would be willing to pay a little extra and it would be good to have that choice in my opinion.

well sky says it a basic channel and it is I have seen lots of series on there by other means only ones I really enjoyed is GOT and the tunnel but everyone got different taste of course be boring if everyone had same one just got to hope they do a deal for it oneday I guess as I said before I want VM to get SA for all the ones that want it

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Originally Posted by howardmicks

End of day bud it's people choice you like your sports and I like best of us tv shows,I would rather pay a couple of quid extra to get sky Atlantic than pay extra £7 for channels I already get and personally sky sports 1+2 Are the only ones I watch and as for f1 (don't even know the channel number lol)

yes mate

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by denphone

But it is not a basic channel to many as it has some excellent series on there and thus quite a few customers in my humble opinion would be willing to pay a little extra and it would be good to have that choice in my opinion.

Well said bud,I have a old friend who goes door to door trying to sell vm and he tells me a lot of the not interested is down to not having sky Atlantic and sky know this that's why vm haven't got

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by howardmicks

Well said bud,I have a old friend who goes door to door trying to sell vm and he tells me a lot of the not interested is down to not having sky Atlantic and sky know this that's why vm haven't got

I have said before the day sky give all the channels to VM is the day sky lose lots of customers so yes that be big reason they wont let us have SA I still shocked we got the sports HD channels to be honest

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Dave42

I have said before the day sky give all the channels to VM is the day sky lose lots of customers so yes that be big reason they wont let us have SA I still shocked we got the sports HD channels to be honest

I think it's a lot to do with losing champions league rights to bt there hoping more people will subscribe to sports they could do with extra income for next bidding rights because bt will come in hard

[vincerooney]

Even before sky launched Atlantic sky always had more subscribers than VM? I think it's sky's paranoia tbh.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Even before sky launched Atlantic sky always had more subscribers than VM? I

Or it could be that Sky cover more of the country than VM

[muppetman11]

People on this forum never seem to grasp that the two businesses have completely different priorities , Sky's core business is television were VM's is its fast broadband network.

[denphone]

Sky's core television business has totally reached saturation point so they have much more to gain if they agree carriage terms with other providers in my book.

[trevrpb]

Probably already been asked, but with the soon to be here SkySports 3 & 4 in HD and SkySports5 HD, is there likely to be any extra cost to me? (If any, presumably levied by Sky and NOT VM)?

I'm already on XL pack, 120mb BB and already take the Sky Sports 1&2 in HD.

Cheers

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by trevrpb

Probably already been asked, but with the soon to be here SkySports 3 & 4 in HD and SkySports5 HD, is there likely to be any extra cost to me? (If any, presumably levied by Sky and NOT VM)?

I'm already on XL pack, 120mb BB and already take the Sky Sports 1&2 in HD.

Cheers

be same price until sky put prices up in September VM will put sports up in October

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Originally Posted by denphone

Sky's core television business has totally reached saturation point so they have much more to gain if they agree carriage terms with other providers in my book.

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Since i wont pay 7 quid extra for HD ill be receiving no surprises on tuesday but best of luck to you all friends...

Same here!