General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 4.

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Sky seem to be not interested in doing an agreement with BT Sports. They seem to have no interest in getting a good deal for their customers.

Sky see BT as more of a threat than VM for their sports rights.
Why would they 'help the competition' by giving them 75 million a year? It may please their punters but they've seen off Setanta and ESPN, they're probably hoping to do the same with BT.

I doubt sky had any intention of attempting a wholesale deal with BT.

Just edited to add, if there was talk between them i'd imagine the wholesale of sky sports channels to BT was a 'must have'.
Selling BT Sports wholesale to VM will certainly help their court case against sky refusing to let BT carry SS 3 and 4

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Well funny you should mention that, as sky contacted me this week, and as long term customer wanted to make sure I was getting all I could.

After 5 mins on the phone with them I had my Broadband free for a year (i'm already a subscriber) and they're sending me out a new 2TB HD box, my exsting HD box will replace my standard Sky+ box I have on multi-room.

I also have movies free, and £10 of my overall bill until the end of the year.

So no, I'm not frustrated.

Got a result there bud,a friend have mine had a similar deal last week.just think companies are trying to tie customers into new contracts but we are all seeing bette deals out of it

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Both sky and bt don't see vm as a threat liberty global have stressed that they not interested in being channel owners they purely want to supply,both sky and bt see vm as a alternative way of broadcasting the products without costs but as a addition income

[anap]

Originally Posted by howardmicks

Got a result there bud,a friend have mine had a similar deal last week.just think companies are trying to tie customers into new contracts but we are all seeing bette deals out of it

I'm getting VIP with an extra box for £106.49 (including line rental). I'm currently on XL TV, Phone and Broadband (60) with Sky S & M, TiVo (500GB), V+ & V boxes for £100.15. So for £6.34 more I'll get XXL Broadband (120), Sky S & M in HD and Talk Unlimited Extra. They'll swap the Superhub for Superhub2 and the 500GB Tivo for 1TB.

[thegrid]

Originally Posted by Chad

Virgin are advertising VIP with 50 HD channels already.

If they're already advertising 50, there must be something else launching immanently. I wonder what it could be

[ocav]

Originally Posted by johnathome

Just edited to add, if there was talk between them i'd imagine the wholesale of sky sports channels to BT was a 'must have'.
Selling BT Sports wholesale to VM will certainly help their court case against sky refusing to let BT carry SS 3 and 4

That's not their case, BT haven't said anything about wanting SS 3&4, BT just want SS1&2 on their YouView box!

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Originally Posted by thegrid

If they're already advertising 50, there must be something else launching immanently. I wonder what it could be

There is already 50...

[thegrid]

Originally Posted by ocav

That's not their case, BT haven't said anything about wanting SS 3&4, BT just want SS1&2 on their YouView box!

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There is already 50...

Ignore my last post, I've been catching up since last night

[johnathome]

[QUOTE=ocav;35611152]That's not their case, BT haven't said anything about wanting SS 3&4, BT just want SS1&2 on their YouView box![COLOR="Silver"]

I bet they'd want it, unfortunately the original ruling by Ofcom only covered SS3 and 4. BT released their price for them and a few weeks later sky put the price up and BT had to sell it at a loss or immediately put their prices up.

BT have just kicked sky in the face.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by eljay

Just carried out a survey for Virginmedia through a company GFK Research. In it they ask you to select preferences on possible enhancments to Virginmedia offerings. Three were of interest.

1. They mention at the start a possible price increase of between £3 to £6

2. One of the selections mentions "now that Netflix is available on Tivo".

3. Another mentions "Unlimited downloads at no extra cost"

Make of those what you will!

Pay TV is fast becoming overpriced with constant increases.

[colin25]

US gets all 380 games, they paid £250m (NBC)

That would be good

[ocav]

Originally Posted by eljay

Just carried out a survey for Virginmedia through a company GFK Research. In it they ask you to select preferences on possible enhancments to Virginmedia offerings. Three were of interest.

1. They mention at the start a possible price increase of between £3 to £6

2. One of the selections mentions "now that Netflix is available on Tivo".

3. Another mentions "Unlimited downloads at no extra cost"

Make of those what you will!

Unlimited downloads? Downloads of what?

[colin25]

Originally Posted by ocav

Unlimited downloads? Downloads of what?

"unlimited"...you can download "unlimited".

[denphone]

If Netflix is made available for lets say for £3 to £4 a month then l will certainly be interested.

[colin25]

Originally Posted by thegrid

Ignore my last post, I've been catching up since last night

If it reassures you..I have ignored. And don't worry, it was easy to do

[alwaysabear]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Pay TV is fast becoming overpriced with constant increases.

I could not agree more. Most of these price rises are being driven by the rediculious prices Sky and BT have paid for the EPL.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by alwaysabear

I could not agree more. Most of these price rises are being driven by the rediculious prices Sky and BT have paid for the EPL.

And these prices for the EPL are only going to rise exponentially in the future.