| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 99156 | 2009-04-22 08:05:00 | Prime and Freeview | maccrazy (6741) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 767304 | 2009-04-24 06:39:00 | wouldnt a software upgrade sort out the encryption decoding? | csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 767305 | 2009-04-24 06:55:00 | this could be the solution... aint sky channels encrypted? why not encrypt freeview therefore locks sky out of tv1/2/3/ brings people back to freeview and sky loses $$$ because we know alot of people went to sky because of UHF poor quality in rural areas or small towns in the country...and sky needs to make $$ so they'll open up Prime to make some advertising FTA $$$ if sky is refusing to show an channel that is technically free to air...why should we let them have TAXPAID FTA channels that we cant even watch via sky tv... sky is making money off tvnz channels which is actually tax payer funded...surely we should get something back from sky (tax refund would be nice!) and i dont even think sky is paying tvnz or tv3 for broadcasting their channels via sky subscriptions... I think sky has a deal with TVNZ + Camwest so that it can broadcast the channels. |
davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 767306 | 2009-04-24 06:57:00 | wouldnt a software upgrade sort out the encryption decoding? It would, but you would likely have to send back your current receiver to have it updated. It would also mean people like myself wouldn't be able to watch freeview so easily on their pc. |
davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 767307 | 2009-04-24 08:36:00 | Its the damn fools paying for sky that encourages them. Yeah. Thats it in a nutshell. If they were an advertisment free service, then maybe it would be worth paying for, but why oh why do people pay for a service that is polluted with advertising? Make up your mind Sky - free of ads, or free to air, but don't expect us put up with BOTH charges and ads. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 767308 | 2009-04-25 07:21:00 | Not sure how many of you are familiar with TelstraClears service. They seem to go off Sky, but I don't know if there's any exclusive content on TC. Personally, for those with Freeview saying that Prime should be on Freeview, I wouldn't be suprised if Prime disappears from your screens once analogue is switched off. Why bother porting your channel over to a competitor? |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 767309 | 2009-04-25 12:44:00 | sky is making money off tvnz channels which is actually tax payer funded... TVNZ is publicly owned but it is profitable, so there isn't any obvious 'tax payer funding' to speak of - other than the disproportionate amount of funding they get from NZ On Air to produce local content. If the TVNZ profits less the NZ On Air funding is not making money then blame the Government imposed charter that requires a certain amount of much more expensive, and lower rating, local content. Furthermore, people watching channels 1, 2, 3 & 4 via a Sky decoder are still counted towards the ratings for the correct channel so it's not as if Sky is getting any extra advertising revenue from airing their competitors channels. I think sky has a deal with TVNZ + Camwest so that it can broadcast the channels. Yep - some areas don't get the analogue signal so TVNZ & TV3/C4 are re-transmitted through Sky. It also makes it easier for the Sky subscribers in that they don't have to switch viewing platform to watch the local news at 6 etc. Personally, for those with Freeview saying that Prime should be on Freeview, I wouldn't be suprised if Prime disappears from your screens once analogue is switched off. Why bother porting your channel over to a competitor? It would be political suicide for Sky to not have a FTA channel. With the dollars they spend for exclusive rights for various sporting events, and assuming they didn't have a FTA channel, how long would it be before there was some sort of political interference? The last Government was talking about a Sky subscription being akin to a 'sports tax'. So Prime is here to stay in one form or another - you won't see Sky put Prime onto Freeview until is it either politically or financially beneficial. Freeview isn't a competitor to Sky any more than the existing channels that are broadcast via the analogue signal. Freeview just gives you the digital signal which looks fantastic on a high-def TV. Yeah there might a couple of extra channels on Freeview but the content on the new channels is pretty poor...... |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 767310 | 2009-04-25 13:02:00 | Poor You are telling me, reruns of the I love Lucy show etc and country calendar from when they had flared trousers and wide ties. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 767311 | 2009-04-25 21:22:00 | Cue had the Beverly Hilbillies twice last night. That impressed the Dragon. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 767312 | 2009-04-25 22:13:00 | Aaahaa... send me a dozen beer and a packet of chips as hush money, immediately, or I will tell your Dragon you called her a Dragon!!! Ken :banana:banana |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 767313 | 2009-04-25 22:16:00 | As a point of interest, I have been watching "Callan" ('60s-early' 70s) on UKTV at 6.05pm Mon-Fri. It was good at the time and still is a good show. Ken PS The Dragon doesn't watch it with me. |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | |||||