I wish Sky would just disappear. I know it's a bit weird to say this about a company but they come across to me as incredibly greedy and television would be a much better place without them. Maybe we'd have Fox TV UK on Freeview/Freesat and some of the other channels that are hidden on Sky but have some of the big US dramas airing on them?
If the big US dramas were not on Sky they would simply air somewhere else. That's all it boils down to.
The whole point of any company is to make money. Sky (and BSB for that matter) lost money like there was no tomorrow in the early years.
Anyway the latest subscriber figures are at over 12m now, so they must be doing something right. Yes okay the big US programmes and the sports definitely helps but you've also got access to all the on-demand stuff as well so you're not just paying for a chunky box connected to a lump of metal looking at a tiny spot in the sky.
Sky is extremely greedy though and ****** me off with the way they buy nearly EVERY U.S. drama.
I wish Sky would just disappear. I know it's a bit weird to say this about a company but they come across to me as incredibly greedy and television would be a much better place without them. Maybe we'd have Fox TV UK on Freeview/Freesat and some of the other channels that are hidden on Sky but have some of the big US dramas airing on them?
If the big US dramas were not on Sky they would simply air somewhere else. That's all it boils down to.
The whole point of any company is to make money. Sky (and BSB for that matter) lost money like there was no tomorrow in the early years.
Anyway the latest subscriber figures are at over 12m now, so they must be doing something right. Yes okay the big US programmes and the sports definitely helps but you've also got access to all the on-demand stuff as well so you're not just paying for a chunky box connected to a lump of metal looking at a tiny spot in the sky.
Sky is extremely greedy though and ****** me off with the way they buy nearly EVERY U.S. drama.
Of which most can be watched on other platforms. Sky like any business finds a niche and capitalises on it and unlike AMC from BT, customers can watch Sky Atlantic with their exclusive drama for £6.99pm (along with other channels and VoD) via Now TV without being a Sky customer.
British television would be a poorer place without Sky.
If the big US dramas were not on Sky they would simply air somewhere else. That's all it boils down to.
The whole point of any company is to make money. Sky (and BSB for that matter) lost money like there was no tomorrow in the early years.
Anyway the latest subscriber figures are at over 12m now, so they must be doing something right. Yes okay the big US programmes and the sports definitely helps but you've also got access to all the on-demand stuff as well so you're not just paying for a chunky box connected to a lump of metal looking at a tiny spot in the sky.
Sky is extremely greedy though and ****** me off with the way they buy nearly EVERY U.S. drama.
Of which most can be watched on other platforms. Sky like any business finds a niche and capitalises on it and unlike AMC from BT, customers can watch Sky Atlantic with their exclusive drama for £6.99pm (along with other channels and VoD) via Now TV without being a Sky customer.
British television would be a poorer place without Sky.
I disagree, I think British TV would be in a much better place. Sky just poach too many things; it's robbing from the poor who can't afford Sky and giving to the rich who can.
It's quite a while since Sky poached any flagship show (Glee and House are the last couple I can think of, though there are probably more). In recent years it's been more of a case of them picking up the rights when their original free to air broadcaster dropped the series, and that has worked both ways too.
There would have been a time when Sky would have poached The X Files again. They didn't and it was FTA on Channel 5 instead.
Sky also commission quality BBC Four style drama as well as the more mainstream stuff for Sky One and Living. Sky News this evening has a quality exclusive about IS recruitment forms, which is on a par with what the BBC, ITV and C4 News would be providing and have boosted journalists, this despite being a loss making channel without Sky subscribers subsidising the channel. (Along with VM who pay to have the channel on their platform)
There would have been a time where Sky's brand was about poaching Premier League rights and US dramas, but the current Sky is a lot more sensible with their acquisitions and is committed to niche output. NOW TV has also made Sky more accessible to customers who either can't afford Sky or don't wish to have a satellite dish.
Or CAN'T have a dish, for example, tower block residents.
And that's why we have communal aerials/satellite dishes. In my council area they were all put in prior to digital switch-over (on my block it ended up behind a tree so it's no good in the summer anyway but that's beside the point). I'd be surprised if the majority of tower blocks don't have some sort of communal aerial already.
Or CAN'T have a dish, for example, tower block residents.
And that's why we have communal aerials/satellite dishes. In my council area they were all put in prior to digital switch-over (on my block it ended up behind a tree so it's no good in the summer anyway but that's beside the point). I'd be surprised if the majority of tower blocks don't have some sort of communal aerial already.
In my block of flats, a communal cable RF system was installed for analogue which gave reception of 1-5, yet it wasn't changed for DTT, instead it only offers Virgin Media now. There are also plenty of people with Sky dishes despite the ban many housing associations have on them.
In my block of flats, a communal cable RF system was installed for analogue which gave reception of 1-5, yet it wasn't changed for DTT, instead it only offers Virgin Media now. There are also plenty of people with Sky dishes despite the ban many housing associations have on them.
But an aerial good enough for analogue signals back in the day should be good enough for Freeview so it shouldn't need replacing. Remember there is no such thing as a digital aerial. Never mind what some people said.
One is not supposed to have more than two dishes on a block up to 15m high (four on 15m+ high blocks) and you are supposed to get planning permission if you exceed this figure. I can pass one block in my area and literally count about 8 dishes next to each other on one side + the communal dish.
Mind you the same guide says it's not appropriate to stick dishes where you can see them from the street,, but its fine if you stick it higher up as it makes it "less visible", though this rather depends on where you live and where the satellites are in relation to it I would have thought.
Personally I don't know why the council contracted Videotron as they were to install the communal system. I can see the CP and Croydon tx's from my window and get 100% signal on most muxes, with 80% on the low power DVB-T2 muxes.
My next door neighbour has a 1m dish for French channels and a standard Sky mini-dish. On my block of 24 flats over five floors, I'd estimate 12-13 have Sky minidishes, with two larger dishes for international channels.
