Originally Posted by gother:
“What makes you so sure of that? Look how many launches VM have done already this year. FOX+ will be coming somepoint this month apparantly along with DisneyHD and DisneyxdHD.
Other channels are launching throughout Autumn. I don't think we'll see all of them on the list before the end of this year but i think most of them will launch.”
Cost for one. Even if they offer all of them a tiny amount - say 3p per subscriber per channel per month they would have to raise their prices around £1 a month to cover it. And let's be honest some of those channels will command values much higher than that.
Sky similarly may have been willing to strike a deal if BT didn't do a deal for Virgin XL and that would have been some loose change to work with however that doesn't apply now. Indeed they are paying out more to BT than they did on ESPN.
The channels quoted as testing aren't testing on the wider network only FOX+ is.
I'm the first to stick up for Virgin wherever possible however this ludicrous thread on CF is giving Virgin a bad name by giving readers unrealistic expectations for the near future. Then we get people moaning about how Virgin are rubbish for not providing a service they never claimed they would offer.
You could make anything up, post it here, someone posts it to CF and it ends up in that thread despite being absolutely baseless.