13-02-2017, 20:01
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by Skie
It was a selling point but in practice the VOD experience on the Tivo has been pretty terrible.
Lately I've even been seeing a message claiming my internet isnt connected (complete with a picture of a dog pulling a cable from the tv) so there is obviously something a bit broke. VM must think so too if they are moving in a different direction with the V6
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Oh I dunno..I've had a few episodes over the years of Docsis 3 being in congestion at peak times, but they've generally been solved in a few months. Frustrating at the time of course, but I'd still take that solution over a shared connection in the long term.
The current problems with error-319 on Sky & HD shows especially, could do with being sorted.. but that's quite obviously an asset-specific issue.
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14-02-2017, 12:37
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Presumably the "addressable advertising" would be similar to Sky's AdSmart?
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About time. But quite why they haven't gone down the route or city and regional advertising years ago I don't know.
In the US if you're watching (for example) Nationals Geographic channel in New York, you get New York ads placed in instead of some of the national ads. They've done this for donkeys years over there. Nice revenue generator.
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14-02-2017, 13:16
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#108
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FORMER Virgin Media Staff
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by MrIca
About time. But quite why they haven't gone down the route or city and regional advertising years ago I don't know.
In the US if you're watching (for example) Nationals Geographic channel in New York, you get New York ads placed in instead of some of the national ads. They've done this for donkeys years over there. Nice revenue generator.
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There are regional stations around the UK and they do often show different ads. Back in Belfast, we had UTV instead of ITV. Programming was nearly identical but the ads and local news was different.
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14-02-2017, 14:09
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by Kushan
There are regional stations around the UK and they do often show different ads. Back in Belfast, we had UTV instead of ITV. Programming was nearly identical but the ads and local news was different.
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That's not what I was describing at all though.
Imagine you're watching a national channel, such as ITV2, Discovery Channel or Sky News but 50% of the ads are local to where you are. The cable companies insert local adverts in the US, it's not done by the broadcaster.
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16-02-2017, 07:22
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
Virgin Media Reports Preliminary Fiscal 2016 Results.
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39% Increase in U.K. RGU Net Additions to 304,000 in 2016
Best Annual RGU Result Since 2009 Rebased Cable Subscription Revenue Growth of 4% in Q4
718,000 Project Lightning Premises Added Since Launch, including 465,000 in 2016
Expect to Add up to 800,000 Lightning Premises in 2017
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http://www.libertyglobal.com/pdf/pre...2016-FINAL.pdf
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16-02-2017, 17:55
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
Interesting that whilst VM increased its internet base by 214,100 customers, its TV base fell by 36,400.
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16-02-2017, 18:02
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
Sky have a more compelling TV offering at the moment, and have been aggressively pricing it - market economics.
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16-02-2017, 18:06
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Interesting that whilst VM increased its internet base by 214,100 customers, its TV base fell by 36,400.
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Virgins great strength is its broadband and will continue to be IMO long into the future Andrew.
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16-02-2017, 19:35
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Interesting that whilst VM increased its internet base by 214,100 customers, its TV base fell by 36,400.
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They are doing very well in terms of broadband. It's likely their fantastic offer on 50mb towards the end of 2016 helped towards their additions:
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...-prosecco.html
"Similarly they’re no doubt mindful of the success that their on-going £18 per month special offer has been having for the standalone 50Mbps broadband package (£32.25 after the 12 month discount), which has been challenging the similarly priced ‘up to’ 17Mbps (ADSL2+) packages of rival ISPs."
On the TV front it's the same old story. Stagnant.
2010 - 3,729,600 TV customers
http://dtg.org.uk/news/news.html?id=3745
2016 - 3,729,100 TV customers
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...and-users.html
If they keep running their cables out offering prosecco broadband and attractive bundle prices I can certainly see their TV uptake rocketing. I'm very interested in their cheap fast broadband.
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01-03-2017, 15:04
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
Vodafone chief says Liberty deal is still ‘attractive’
https://www.ft.com/content/3699ceec-...8-3700c5664d30
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01-03-2017, 17:45
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
For Vodafone maybe, but not LG.
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01-03-2017, 18:50
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by Pierre
For Vodafone maybe, but not LG.
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Agreed. I suspect Vodafone is trying to talk up its share price!
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02-03-2017, 12:20
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
God, I wish they'd just **** already.
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02-03-2017, 13:14
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#119
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by Kushan
God, I wish they'd just **** already.
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I Know lol
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05-03-2017, 18:55
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#120
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by Kushan
God, I wish they'd just **** already.
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From a VF perspective the deal makes sense. From a consumer perspective it will have ramifications in some markets like Germany. Here in the U.K. It might even force the regulators hand where they push VM to open the cable network to other competitors a la Openreach.
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