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Sky Atlantic Virgin?
woolybully
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I suppose there is absolute zero chance of Sky Atlantic launching on Virgin by the end of the month. Game of Thrones Season 3,the best program on T.V (IMHO) starts on the 1st of April. It would be great to watch it on virgin. Ah well will have to resort to other means....again!.
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http://www.1channel.ch/tv-1386995-Game-of-Thrones
Keeping Sky Atlantic to themselves doesn't work in my opinion , people just watch the shows via other means.
I have watched all of season 1 of Banshee about 2 months before even starts on Sky Atlantic
word of advise for u..
go over to sky. virgin dont have many channels..
It is mainly the niche channels that VM are missing.
Sky Atlantic is the one that we don't get that I want, but I have conceded that the only way to see the shows I want on there is to get the box sets, which I have done with 'Mad Men'.
There are only one or two shows that are worth doing this for - the rest I can see when they eventually get repeated on other channels or when Sky finally relent and charge other platforms a sensible price for it.
I can't work this post out, in other threads Virgin are the dogs nuts for everything
Still, it's one up from "good evening all" and pointless thread starters.
Because there are so many top programmes that HBO make. Sky atlantic is my used channel I reckon - blue bloods, game of thrones, boardwalk empire etc...
Because after Sky1, Sky Living, Fox, Comedy Central, Watch and G.O.L.D. it's the most watched pay only entertainment channel (and that's without being in 3m+ virgin homes).
Yes but as even you must admit there are other ways to watch these shows.;)
Well that answers why Sky want to keep it exclusive to themselves.
But if we all adopted that attitude of using Torrents to get programs that are on Sky Atlantic before they are aired would we really need Virgin or Sky ? Damn, if I wanted to I could save myself a fortune on my monthly subscription to Sky Movies, Sky Sports, Sky 1, Sky F1 and Just download all the programs from Torrent and stream all the sports live over the interent via all the random links that are easy to access via google.
What is the point in torrent for tv shows, when we expect the best of the best to be in you monthy tv subscription, after all we pay enough don't we ?
When channels are not on VM torrents are better then nowt!
Of course i have a VM tv sub for everything else.;)
Sky Atlantic has viewing figures of 300,000 I think, about on a par with BBC4 and half that of BBC3. Although at times it's been as low as 50,000 people.
So it's not an issue for everyone in the UK, nor even for everyone who has Virgin or Sky TV.
There's no reason why it's viewing numbers would swell massively if included with Virgin, a small fraction of Sky customers watch it and it seems highly likely that the take up amongst Virgin customers would be of a similar level.
And it's continued absence is certainly not about to cause a mass exodus of Virgin customers to Sky, sorry psouth.
Put it the other way round. If companies actually gave people what they wanted there would be no need for torrenting.
I have no idea about Game of Thrones but there are certainly other big shows on Sky that have been out in the US for months and are still being advertised as coming soon on UK tv. It's rather ridiculous in this day and age for this gap to exist. It's not even the internet and people talking about shows, read magazines like SFX and they'll be talking about all the new shows before and as soon as they come out in the US.
We have moved on.
yeh yeh..lol
10 years time virgin media take on sky atlantic