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Thread ID: 101354 2009-07-11 09:24:00 Sky Ready To Switch Off UHF Service Hitech (9024) PC World Chat
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790861 2009-07-11 09:24:00 www.nzherald.co.nz

Looks like its freeview sky or no tv for sky uhf subscribers.
Hitech (9024)
790862 2009-07-11 09:34:00 It was a ripoff anyway Speedy Gonzales (78)
790863 2009-07-11 09:40:00 Yip speedy a sign of the times uhf was a rip off and still is now you either have a dish or no sky at all.

Sky now has only 25,000 uhf subscribers i wonder how many sky tried to encourage to switch to satellite.
Hitech (9024)
790864 2009-07-11 10:02:00 they have been encouraging them to shift over ever since since sat started ;)
a little surprised they still hung on to UHF for this long. however while they held the licence it did effectively shutout any opposition.
with them dropping UHF we may get a lot more smaller players starting up.
tweak'e (69)
790865 2009-07-11 10:05:00 Dont think so sky are going to sell the uhf frequencies back to the govt to use for extra bandwidth for other things. Hitech (9024)
790866 2009-07-12 02:27:00 The little players might not be able to afford to start up unless they get a handout from the govt. Hitech (9024)
790867 2009-07-12 04:48:00 It wasn't a ripoff. It was free for people in the know :D ubergeek85 (131)
790868 2009-07-12 05:56:00 It wasn't a ripoff. It was free for people in the know :D

especially after the horse / dog racing :D
stu161204 (123)
790869 2009-07-12 06:15:00 From the article in the first post:
Sky plans to hand its UHF and radio spectrum back to the Government and trade them for digital terrestrial bandwidth.
Does this mean we'll maybe get Prime on Freeview :banana:banana:thumbs:
feersumendjinn (64)
790870 2009-07-12 06:37:00 Does this mean we'll maybe get Prime on Freeview :banana:banana:thumbs:

One would hope so :dogeye:.

Wouldn't Sky be wanting to exchange DVB-T bandwidth for DVB-S? :confused:
davidmmac (4619)
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