SKY add 3 new channels to its line-up and change the face of TV here in the UK. It all started at 6.pm & Kay Burley was the 1st face on SKY. If not for SKY how many chanels would we have now?
If not for SKY how many chanels would we have now?
I've got another (unrelated) question, if not for your multiple accounts how many fewer posts would we have now? As your other identity (' End-The-TV-Licence-Now') was banned earlier this week consider this one banned also.
Well Sky have definitely revolunised TV in this country, tons of +1hr channels, shopping and quiz channels, repeats on Sky Movies, only Sky Sports is worth watching!
Does anyone see the point of half of these channels anyway?
Wastes bandwith for starters, especially on Freeview(Last time I switched my box on, QVC & Bid Up Tv together. What's the b***dy point ?
On SKY, you've got Quizmania over several channels, Bid Up Tv being used as a downtime channel filler on either Bad Movies on True Movies(can't remember which one!), channels which only operate part of the time.
I could go on, but I'll let someone else 'take up the baton', so to speak!)
I do think most of these channels are a waste of time.They should close them down and increase the bitrates to suitable standards- far too many channels are horribly overcompressed. There should be a minimum of 5mbps. Some channels are as low as 2 or 3.
I do think most of these channels are a waste of time.They should close them down and increase the bitrates to suitable standards- far too many channels are horribly overcompressed. There should be a minimum of 5 or 6mbps. Some channels are as low as 2 or 3.
Yes indeed. Quantity has surpassed quality as far as television in general goes. I really can't see the point in the +1 channels, the multiplicity that is shopping channels and excessiveness of quiz channels. All the quiz channels do is prey on the vulnerable and rake in thousands while the viewers spend up to 1.50 on a phone call.
There are far fewer quality entertainment channels and as for movie channels, there are now far too many all showing the same film over and over again.
The channels we need and would probably be quite happy with are:
BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, BBC3, BBC4, C4, five, BBC News24, Sky News, UKTV Gold, UKTV People, UKTV Documentary, ABC1 (24 hour on all spectrums. I feel a bit cheated as ABC1 started on freeview and then deserted it to become 24 on sky and ntl only), Sky Moviemax, Sky Premier, (as they once were and far better for it), Sky Cinema, Sky Movies Replay (a catchup channel), SKY One, Sky Two, Living, Hallmark, The Sci-Fi Channel, Bravo, Nickleodeon, E4, TMF, The Hits, TCM, QVC, MTV, Sky Sports, Sky Sports 2, British Eurosport and The Cartoon Network. CBeebies and CBBC, Boomerang and Paramount.
That is enough for anyone to watch....still far too many because they are filled with a never ending cycle of repeats.
Until PVRs are everywhere (which is a while off; and by that time the whole idea of linear TV will be out the window), +1 channels are, IMO, a good thing. Programme clash? Got home late? You can still watch the programme you wanted to watch. What's so bad about that?
It's amazing though the number of channels we've got now which run off a single PC - Babecast and its ilk - and how some channels run on such a small budget that they're compressed to the point that they're almost unwatchable.
The big broadcasters have definitely shown themselves to be capable of commissioning (and acquiring) good content to fill up their channels - but then go and fill up the schedules with rubbish and repeats (Two Pints or Jonathan Ross, anyone?). That's something which might show itself to be less of a problem once everyone's watching Video on Demand.
Sky definitely got the country thinking about multi-channel TV in a way they might not have imagined before, and certainly got the ball rolling. But I'm so not sure if the future is in television delivered by satellite.
I do think most of these channels are a waste of time.They should close them down and increase the bitrates to suitable standards- far too many channels are horribly overcompressed. There should be a minimum of 5mbps. Some channels are as low as 2 or 3.
But who should close them down and under what authority?
You can't just go up to a private company and say 'your channels are no good you must close them down'
Well Sky have definitely revolunised TV in this country, tons of +1hr channels, shopping and quiz channels, repeats on Sky Movies, only Sky Sports is worth watching!
Sky don't have any +1 channels.
In a free market there is nothing to stop channels launching. It's the technology that has enabled the explosion in channels in theis country not one company. IF it wasn't BSkyB then it would be someone else
Well Sky have definitely revolunised TV in this country, tons of +1hr channels, shopping and quiz channels, repeats on Sky Movies, only Sky Sports is worth watching!
Sky don't have any +1 channels.
In a free market there is nothing to stop channels launching. It's the technology that has enabled the explosion in channels in theis country not one company. IF it wasn't BSkyB then it would be someone else
Well they are part owned by Sky are they not, I am sure they are or were, anyway +1 channels will be useless by the time PVR's make their mark.