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Originally Posted by nialli
I disagree with pretty much every single point you make.
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I for one agree with nearly everything mentioned...
and despite from denials from 'insiders', there is an issue in terms of bandwidth - not so much in terms of capacity for new channels anymore .. but on who will pay for expensive coders and muxing equipment in the headends / hubs, everytime a new channel joins the platform. VM has in the past relied on broadcasters to contribute to this in a similar way to how sky demand a "platform contribution" charge. But with Sky's growing customer share, cable is forced more than ever to make concessions to secure carriage.
Maybe Tivo could be VM's saviour? But they'll have to find a way of making it the standard V+ offering if they are to compete in future... I.e. it replaces the existing v+ product .. with perhaps existing customers having to pay an install/upgrade charge just like Sky+ customers did when getting SkyHD