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Originally Posted by welwynrose
the best idea would be to remarket living as the rival Sky One - you then would only need 3 or 4 hours of decent programming an evening they already have Grays Anatomy, CSI & Boston Legal so it wouldn't be hard to get some other decent shows
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of course, sky now have a 2 year? contract to get these VM owned channels ( does their contract say what programs they get though ?).
would it be wise to improve this existing channel , or take the best content off these and produce a second new channel exclusive to VM cable and licence (a sub-set? of)that to freeview to remove the tosh gambling airtime.... with ANYTHING better.
the thing that strikes me in this thread and elsewere(from end users, and VM managment alike), is the lack of british innovative thinking in seeing just what IPTV really is...., its a vast move forward in interactivity and cost savings.
you take the VOD and bungle it up as people like it to be viewed, and add new options to that to show them how it can also be viewed in other ways( not the current crappy multi-button pressing back/ok/down etc beta front-end on-demand way please).
while tech is not a panacia as such , you cant do new innovative stuff without it, and given the current cheap and nasty stbs capabilitys, this will not happen to any great degree for a while yet, at least until both the head end and far more powerful STB's are put in place to then take advantage of the possabilitys at then no extra excessive costs.
but think of it this way, you ask for program x, y and z, and think its going to be delivered as its always been , but thats not the case, its potential can be far better than that old way for all concerned.
HD, SD, PIP, over lan, even to your browser and linkable in message boards to control your standard (powerful, some day...) VM STB (remember the VM STB uses limited html middleware to put up the GUI on the tv and control the box)and check out the PIP in a window as we post in this thread all become a possability if the basic tech is in place and the firmware in included.
why only supply the programs you already know and see elsewere, what about an ever changing supply of new and different programming that you can try for an episode or two and vote for it to be included in a generic tv channel, the more something gets votes the more gets supplyed.....
just one option:
advertising pays the bills,but again why not link these to the voting system, 'what do you want to buy today' type voting and that too gets linked into the main content on a rotation, the more an advert appears the more they pay.
just for the record , heroes, dresden files, primevil are all good new programs that
do seem to bring something new to current viewing in the different channels they come from, so it might be nice to have them all in a single channel for convenience.
but...., how many more new programs are out there that we dont even know exists yet?, these new progams could find a very good home in VOD and become the next BIG hit, and VM could be the place to create this playgound were new tallent can collect, and become well known and watched.
its clear you dont need to go to the biggest and baddest studio's to get good programming, apparently there is a very big need to have a place were the smaller studio's and indys can get their new content on screen, why not VM...
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