i just want to clear up a few things on the subject of IPTV been the next move for cable in the UK.
here's 3 reasons why it wont take off in the UK for a good few years;-


1)-Huge US telco incumbents SBC and Verizon are making vast investments into IPTV services. SBC hopes to have 18 million homes hooked up to its service (project 'Lightspeed'). They are investing $4 billion into the project.

virrmin's budget is 30 bob,and the majority of the UK dont have access to a cable feed.

2)-The scalability and management of content, billing and customer systems are also of concern. High support costs will immediately kill off revenues and customer interest.

virrmin employing more staff while there laying folk off ???

3)-There's no standardisation among requirements for conditional access and digital-rights management.
Government regulatory issues will figure highly in the success or failure of IPTV in key regions.


this basically means the gov will shit over licence fee's and who has rights to what ??.

there's also the Bandwidth problem in the UK which is basically shite.i remember 8 years ago on file sharing progs and ppl in the scandinavian countries pulling 50meg then while it was taking me 27 hrs for virtua tennis for the dreamcast and its taken us that long to catch up.

there's only so many turds you can sqeeze into a bottle neck before it clogs !.

encryption will be virmin's tool to stop what's going on not IPTV.

Tiscali TV has been around for ages in the UK and they had to overcome some of the issues you've mentioned apart from the nationwide roll out issue...however with VM's resources it could be possible.

Despite only half the UK being cabled IPTV can easily be adapted for ADSL.

Originally Posted by demonx

Tiscali TV has been around for ages in the UK and they had to overcome some of the issues you've mentioned apart from the nationwide roll out issue...however with VM's resources it could be possible.

Despite only half the UK being cabled IPTV can easily be adapted for ADSL.

virmin dont have a bottomless pit of cash so the crooks is , will it be profitable ?.this i very much doubt.

Originally Posted by silverdale

virmin dont have a bottomless pit of cash so the crooks is , will it be profitable ?.this i very much doubt.

Sky player on the Xbox 360 seems popular enough. I guess they'll be looking into that and finding a way to compete.

All about marketing at the end of the day. heh.

bt vision is iptv and has slowly overcome a lot of these barriers ,its still shite but next year a lot of improvements are coming