"We are the only operator in the world that has Netflix in our set-top box"

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Interview with Virgin CEO (http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/ma...)

The tendency is to think of the core offering of the media giants as the programmes that are broadcast. But Mockridge believes the real battleground is broadband. ‘With broadband comes home television, comes home telephony and increasingly mobile too.’
In the UK, Mockridge says, the only real competition is BT.

‘If you buy from Sky you are a BT customer, if you buy from PlusNet, it is a subsidiary of BT. There are only two networks in the UK, our network and BT.

Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/ma...

Roy

Top link works OK, but bottom one seems broken...

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Apologies. It's the same link, added superfluously by the webpage when I copied the excerpt. Thought I had deleted it.

Visionman

True that. Sadly, due to a lack of network expansion, Virgin Media isn't really a competitor to BT. I love seeing price wars (like what is happening now between Sky and BT). Still, with VM's recent acquisition, you never know...

As for Netflix, I've read that they are looking to expand rapidly in the UK and if one of either Netflix or Lovefilm didn't appear on the YV platform I would be gob-smacked.

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Visionman said:

True that. Sadly, due to a lack of network expansion, Virgin Media isn't really a competitor to BT. I love seeing price wars (like what is happening now between Sky and BT). Still, with VM's recent acquisition, you never know...

As for Netflix, I've read that they are looking to expand rapidly in the UK and if one of either Netflix or Lovefilm didn't appear on the YV platform I would be gob-smacked.

Interesting. Can you recall where you read that?

Visionman

Visionman said:

True that. Sadly, due to a lack of network expansion, Virgin Media isn't really a competitor to BT. I love seeing price wars (like what is happening now between Sky and BT). Still, with VM's recent acquisition, you never know...

As for Netflix, I've read that they are looking to expand rapidly in the UK and if one of either Netflix or Lovefilm didn't appear on the YV platform I would be gob-smacked.

There are many articles about it. But heres a recent example -

http://www.bidnessetc.com/22450-netflix-continues-to-make-new-highs/

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Visionman said:

True that. Sadly, due to a lack of network expansion, Virgin Media isn't really a competitor to BT. I love seeing price wars (like what is happening now between Sky and BT). Still, with VM's recent acquisition, you never know...

As for Netflix, I've read that they are looking to expand rapidly in the UK and if one of either Netflix or Lovefilm didn't appear on the YV platform I would be gob-smacked.

Can't find anything on NetFlix expanding in the UK but there was a press release a few weeks ago about planned expansion in Europe: they're moving into France, Germny, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg "later this year".

NetFlix isn't hard to find in the UK, being available on Samsung TVs, Roku boxes, Chromecast, various game consoles and come to think of it, Panasonic PVRs. Mockridge really should have said "We are the only operator in the UK with NetFlix behind our paywall"

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Visionman said:

True that. Sadly, due to a lack of network expansion, Virgin Media isn't really a competitor to BT. I love seeing price wars (like what is happening now between Sky and BT). Still, with VM's recent acquisition, you never know...

As for Netflix, I've read that they are looking to expand rapidly in the UK and if one of either Netflix or Lovefilm didn't appear on the YV platform I would be gob-smacked.

There are many articles about it. But heres a recent example -

http://www.bidnessetc.com/22450-netfl...

Our posts crossed. But that article is about the European expansion, not about UK plans. They're adding countries, not platforms per se.