All posts by John P
Below are all of John P's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
I know what you mean Brian but they have sort of done it anyway with ITV2HD, ITV3HD, ITV4HD and CHANNEL5HD. I know it was a deal done between SKY ITV and CHANNEL5 and there was space issues as well on freeview/freesat but it restricts these channels to SKY subscribers and makes the other formats weaker.
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Surely the government should have made it legal that any channels that are free to air in this country should have free slots on any broadcasting format that has a significant audience market share. But for SKY to lose this small revenue source now would surely mean that the money would recuperated through another subscription increase.
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How many of these are just decoders bought as compared to decoders that are inbuilt into new TV's?
I don't think that freesat is a real challenger to SKY people are being forced to look for a cheaper way of watching TV in these harder times. SKY have been quite successful in keeping away any quality choice from freesat. It could have potentially been much more than it actually is.(there isn't the 200+ channels as promised at launch)
Compare the channel line up of freesat and freeview on this site, its mostly identical, both have the same big five channels as well as the extra digital ones. Both have an equal amount of poor quality shopping and foreign news channels.
Freesat should at least have more HD channels like ITV2HD etc and more variety in music, documentries and childrens TV. If some of the exclusive channels could be prised away from SKY like cartoonetwork, Discovery, Eurosport or MTV then that might cause SKY some concern.
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Hi Brian,
I've been looking into buying a dreambox but are struggling to find out what channels I can actualy receive from it and what it can do, most youtube videos etc are misleading.
Are you able to do an article on this subject and possibly a list of what channels are available as compared to freesat. I do appretiate that it may be a complex answer.
Thanks John P
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It's a bit late to start looking into this now. Satellite would have been great, more capacity for HD channels but the BBC might have to have launched its own satellite though as Sky would have tried to blocked a free service in any form.
Are the mobile phone company's willing to pay for changing people's systems over, I have four TVs in my house all have freeview built in I would not be happy if these became obsolete. Would also all the TV transmitters also be obsolete. There seems not enough forward thinking at all.
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Monday 3 January 2011 12:27AM
Well its almost checkmate for SKY. Ive just noticed that EurosportHD which used to be included on the SKYHD package has been removed unless I subscribe to SKY sports. Its good to know the package I signed up for has been altered if I want the same level of package I need to pay them more money. What is in store for the new year? Maybe SKY could remove all the shopping and religious channels from my package and give me the option whether I want to subscribe to these. Maybe they could charge me extra for viewing the movies currently on the BBC, ITV, C4, C5 etc. Its really unfair competition for SKY that I can currently watch them free. Think of something totally ridiculous that would never happen and by this time next year it probably will.