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Old 25-08-2012, 12:17   #1063
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2012) Vol. 3.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
Why should it people should be glad other platforms up their game as in the long run they'll start to feel the benefits.

Here's some examples

Sky+ gave the cable co's the incentive to launch the 3 tuner TV Drive

Cables OD service forced Sky to launch Anytime+

Sky+ app (remote record) resulted in VM TIVO adding this feature

VM TIVO undelete feature resulted in Sky adding this feature to new EPG

VM & BT Vision catchup has resulted in Sky announcing a catchup service (rumoured for September)

Sky Go has pushed VM to announce TV Anywhere

Netflix HD streaming has resulted in Lovefilm introducing HD streaming

Netflix arrival has meant competition for Lovefilm and the introduction of Sky's Now TV.

Basically my point is competition is good for us the consumers.
Great post.

Here is an interesting listen about the future of TV:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/9746128.stm

Looks like SKY and Virgin have a bit more innovating to do
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