Virgin Media attacks the BBC trust

I can't help but read this and think that the BBC are just trying to create a unified central resource to which they can then proclaim that since everyone with Internet access can view the content they can then charge a Internet TV License.

Bad enough they blanketed the 30+ million homes in the UK with this monopolised forced (almost mandatory) TV License, but now the world!

This story is similar to many being spun by The Conservative Party. They have taken Rupert Murdoch's orders and will try to weaken the BBC, so that Murdoch can charge us all more for reading the news.

David Cameron, leader of The Conservatives, is happy to break up the BBC so long as SKY, SKY News, The Times, The News of The World, The Sun etc all back him in the run up to the election in the UK. All of those media outlets bekong to Rupert Murdoch.

David Cameron, in the pocket to the man at the top, screwing the consumer and using parliament to screw us all.

The BBC costs approx £10/month, for that we get websites, news, radio, lots of tv content and channels. SKY costs £25/month and for that you don't get the movies or sports (£45/month for those).

Sky don't provide Radio, and Sky's own original TV content is dire. Can you think of a single good program from SKY with actors in it?

Virgin, their original TV content is also dire.

Remember this when it comes to polling day, who is already selling us out to his buddies?

All media companies, from the very biggest to the very smallest, are all victims of and prey to the programs which they show/produce/share/create.

And all that it takes for a minnow [let us call it, Virgin] to swallow a shark [let us call it, BBC] is to Create a Reality with Programs which they Produce/Create with Ideally IT Paying them Sublimely/Covertly because of the Production Team's Capability in Presenting a ...... well, it would be a Sophisticated Virtual Reality Presenting a Future Vision to Virgin Wishes, or more accurately maybe, Virgin Creative Virtual Terrain Team Member Desires and Third Party Customer/Investor Requirements.

The Main Prize is not in being able to present all manner of popular crap and worthless bling, but much more in capturing the Markets with a Money Spinner which cannot be stopped or diverted/perverted/subverted.

Does Virgin Media make its own Programs/Shows, or just pimp the ideas of Others for Third Parties?

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cc. Virgin Media, CreativeIT Work, Rest and Play Group.

Remember when the iPlayer first surfaced and he moaned that he would have to start giving his customers the service they were paying for (ie 10mb)?? Remember how he wanted to charge the beeb to deliver their content on his network?

At that stage I wanted him to be slapped across the face with a net neutrality fish. Now this? He should just get Virgin involved too so they don't get even more detached from the broadcasters.

I was just reading an article about how they are trying to get ITV HD for the world cup... how on earth does he think these companies will ever trust him when he keeps slagging off things which are fundemental to the very people he is trying to do business with?

Pretty much every person in the UK has huge respect and a little place in their hearts for the BBC, and that is, as they say, all due to the unique way it is funded.

I have a sneaking suspicion that his comments were made because they have invested with Tivo for their new boxes, and this may compete with it. If he just opened some dialogue with them, they could easily integrate this too and everyone would be a winner. F*cking retard!

The man is a complete numpty who is alienating his own loyal customers even further. Branson should get this company back under his control, then get Virgin Galactic to strap him to the top of one of their launch vehicles and see what happens!

Berkett's just complaining because he want to be the de-facto gatekeeper of the digital world. He's been saying that on and off for year, but as has already been said, Virgin Media are a bunch of clowns that are nothing but an out-sourcing operation pretending to be a company while they service their debts.

@rchrd

the bbc is the gatekeeper to jonathan ross' vast empire of cash

Project Canvas may be BBC-led but all the shareholders own the same stake - a sixth and all have the same voting rights, so the beeb isn't the gatekeeper to anything.

I trust the BBC a whole boatload more than I would ever trust the clowns in charge at Virgin Media

"safeguards to prevent the BBC emerging as de facto gatekeeper of the digital world"

What does that even *mean*?

It looks to me like the BBC are trying hard to get everybody behind a single, compatible format because its in everyones interest to do so - especially the viewers. And most broadcasters evidently agree, which makes a nice change.

But Virgin Media would presumably prefer a bunch of proprietary, incompatible formats - because then, *their* proprietary, incompatible format might "win".

"Virgin Media" is evidently a very bad choice of name. Because, screw them.

Discovery is the biggest problem these people have when trying to get more customers. If each broadcaster tries to create there own player then people will not be willing to search through each service to find content.
Internet TV needs to be as simple as the current broadcast systems where you switch on and there is a list of channels.