UKTV HD free for Christmas
11-12-2018, 13:13
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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To be fair on VM, it has been argued that the BT Sport arrangement helps to attract and retain customers, which helps to keep prices down whilst offering extra premium channels to Full House Customers at 'no extra cost'.
Apparently, this attracts customers more than the addition of Sky Atlantic would do.
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Of that there is no doubt Richard.
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11-12-2018, 13:29
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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Well one person's dross is another's must have. I don't watch any Sky output, but still pay for it. It would be good if we could tailor to exactly the channels we want but guess that's not profitable.
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I think it depends how you structure it. Clearly, some people are attracted to the number of channels appearing, regardless of content. However, wouldn't it be good if you could subscribe to a 'quality max' package that only provided the present selection of HD/UHD channels plus Sky Atlantic HD and AMC HD together with all the 'free' terrestrial and news channels, plus the all the main subscription on demand services including Amazon and Starzplay at a discounted price through Virgin. Now that would be much more to my taste. Virgin would need to price it to what was sensible, of course, but it should stem complaints about paying for 'dross'.
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11-12-2018, 13:32
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
l see OB we are still waiting for Starzplay.
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11-12-2018, 13:34
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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l see OB we are still waiting for Starzplay.
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Yes, we are, but it's only a short wait until Virgin irons out the glitches.
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11-12-2018, 13:36
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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Yes, we are, but it's only a short wait until Virgin irons out the glitches.
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l would be surprised if we get it before Christmas now though.
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11-12-2018, 13:39
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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l would be surprised if we get it before Christmas now though.
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Almost certainly we are looking at January or February now.
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11-12-2018, 13:41
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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Almost certainly we are looking at January or February now.
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With a price rise following on afterwards...
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11-12-2018, 13:51
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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With a price rise following on afterwards...
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Cynic!
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11-12-2018, 20:08
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
Bringing the thread back to topic, I wasn't aware that we had to pay for UKTV in HD or otherwise - possibly because I never watch any of the rubbish shown on these channels?
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11-12-2018, 21:26
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
Generally speaking, Full House has to be taken to obtain the HD channels, though this has become more relaxed recently.
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11-12-2018, 22:17
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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Generally speaking, Full House has to be taken to obtain the HD channels, though this has become more relaxed recently.
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Not sure most of the rubbish on those channels benefits from being in HD
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11-12-2018, 22:46
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
I was speaking in general terms, as opposed to just UKTV.
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12-12-2018, 08:59
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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I wonder what the higher tiers will get free? Bugger all I suspect...
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Well... on the one hand, there's more incentives available to lower-tiers to encourage higher-tier take-up which ultimately probably helps the economics of the higher tiers for everyone.
But yeah.. people on the higher tiers then wonder what they're paying extra for when it's given away to lower tiers.
A balancing act I guess, and no doubt come January there'll be lower-tier customers complaining about the loss of these freebies.
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12-12-2018, 09:18
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
Don't know what you're all whinginging about. Dad's Army looks so much better in HD
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12-12-2018, 09:29
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Re: UKTV HD free for Christmas
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Don't know what you're all whinginging about. Dad's Army looks so much better in HD
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That'll be because they (probably) filmed it on film, it's the old shows that were done on video that look awful.
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