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You're making the assumption that Sky or Virgin cannot deliver value and that only streamers can based on nothing at all. These bundles of streaming services end up more expensive than the vast majority are paying in triple play/quad play bundles with Sky or Virgin. Plus you ignore the fact that general entertainment doesn't draw in numbers the same way as exclusive live sports. Viewers stayed with Virgin throughout the Sky basics dispute. There's nothing to indicate minority interest content is more damaging than that and not readily replaceable. |
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I hope not.
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Virgin TV 360 requires Virgin Fibre, so the customer base for any IP only TV wouldn't be much different from the current TV service, so I'd hope that any content agreements are roughly similar.
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Even it did, it wouldn't happen anytime soon.
There are literally millions of co-ax connected Virgin TV STBs installed in the UK. |
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UPDATE: Look like when BBC Red Button HD Channel when it launches by Friday will be an UK wide 24 hour channel (and not CBBC HD stream as years before) base on Digital Bit Rate info. https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.p...&sec=0&lang=en Also TiVo listing has been updated for the FOX Channels to now say that both FOX and FOX HD will close at Midnight on Jume 30th. FOX +1 will now close at 1am on June 30th (early July 1st). |
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Looks like the Discovery channels are being removed from Now TV:
https://community.nowtv.com/t5/Enter...el/td-p/561462 I wonder if Sky & VM will be losing them when the carriage contracts expire? Anybody know when this is? It may just be that they want their channels off another streaming service competing for customers, but the long term plan is for Discovery to retain just one linear channel to showcase their online content. No idea if this includes their ad reliant FTA channels. |
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The only way I can see of VM being able to compensate is to offer all the streamers and integrate them as much as possible to the VM system, allowing customers easier access to what they want to see. So if, yes if, there was a substantial reduction of TV channels, in line with the new developing trend, what do you think would happen? ---------- Post added at 16:54 ---------- Previous post was at 16:52 ---------- Quote:
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The average consumer doesn’t have unlimited disposable income, and has a massive range of competing interests. Is anyone else offering BT Sport for example - Sky it’s £25 a month. On BT it’s £15 a month. My marginal cost of Maxit above a standalone broadband package is less than this and nobody else can match Virgin’s speeds in my area. Quote:
The savings aren’t there for Virgin to significantly reduce the costs their service so likely they’ll just keep increasing the cost of broadband - ultimately for many users they don’t have a choice of a competing FTTP offering. For Sky they can do the same on the basis of their exclusive content - in particular sports. |
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Sky is now in the fortunate position of having been taken over by Comcast, which will certainly help them. Maybe Liberty Global should think about taking over one of these American content providers and also to start commissioning original content of its own to help fill the gap. Not many of us have unlimited disposable income, I agree, and they certainly wouldn’t want to waste it by paying out for fewer, lower quality channels. ---------- Post added at 19:27 ---------- Previous post was at 19:17 ---------- Quote:
I stick by my previous assertions that the streamers are much better value for money for non-sports content. The streamers are not requiring you to enter into a contract lasting more than a month, and so you can swap between them if money is a problem. You don’t need to subscribe to them all at once. And the quality and volume of content is far better than any TV channel can offer, or even all of them put together. I agree that if you are a generalist sports watcher, streaming can be very expensive, but those who are interested in only one sport (eg football) can find savings by not subscribing off-season. |
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Apparently, those who call to cancel off season are immediately offered a good retention deal over the summer.
Worth doing even if those into football have no intention of cancelling to help keep down the expensive cost of sport. |
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Discovery don’t have a monopoly on documentaries, Disney don’t have a monopoly on cartoons or regurgitated comic book fantasy films. General entertainment is ten a penny from a range of potential content providers on both sides of the pond. Quote:
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Very few sports fans are interested in “one sport” and one only. |
Re: Changes to Virgin TV (2021)
Two BBC apps for TVs have had features added.
BBC Sounds (TV App) now has a Podcasts section. The last addition was a Music section. When it the TV App launched it was Home/My Sounds/Search/Settings to my recollection. BBC iPlayer (TV App) now has restored a feature lost in the last big refresh. The have re-added a written description of the programme/episode. There's a little "Info" label underneath the progress bar with a "V" downward arrow symbol, which indicates that if you press the down arrow on your remote control it will show the description. Interestingly the description seems to stay on screen until you actively press a button to get rid of it. Up and down buttons on the remote do this, that I've tried, maybe other buttons have the same effect. Note: These changes have been found on the Virgin Media V6 box versions of the TV Apps, I don't know if the features have been rolled out to all VM households (I received the update early previously) or other TV App platforms. |
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