Well that sucks
I used to be an NTL subscriber in the days before sky plus but was lured to the dark side by the recording box of wonder and have used sky for a couple of years now.
With the take over of NTL and the UK cable co’s by Richard Branson’s Virgin, I have been seriously thinking about going back to cable. They have a good high end product now with HD and recording, plus video on demand etc. Combining TV, Internet and Phone services would give us a better service for the same outlay each month.
It would appear that Mr Murdoch is aware of the threat that Richard Branson presents and so Sky are feeling threatened enough to withdraw the Sky 1 and 2 service from Virgin. This (as Sky knows) removes a major reason for having the system – the jump it gives over terestrial TV for all those “have to see” American series like 24, Stargate, Lost etc.
The irony is that I was unaware of the development and had more or less persuaded wifey to swap when she heard about the Sky move on the news. Looks like I’ll be waiting for HDTV and 10MB/s internet for a while longer.
I am feeling a bit sympathetic for Richard Branson, he’s having a really bad week – first this and then the train crash in Cumbria. He looked visibly shaken in the interview at the crash site. Perhaps thats the difference between him an Rupert. Richard gives a damn.
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What are you trying to say here?
Today is the day apparently – if they don’t reach agreement by midnight Sky gets pulled from the Virgin lineup.
Its a real pity that they are being greedy about this, Don’t they make enough to run the channel from advertising anyway?
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