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Full scale war breaks out - Peace reached with 4.5hrs to go, (January 2017)

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AJ
AJ
DJGM posted:
AJ posted:

I suspect that services like TV Player will do well out of this. They carry most of the Discovery channels
along with Eurosport 1 & 2 for a fiver a month, and the Amazon Fire TV app works a treat.


I've wondered about the legalities of TV Player. (Although this is perhaps worthy of its own thread). Do the various broadcasters whose channels are available on TV Player, licence the rights for 3rd party streaming of their channels to the owners of TV Player, or do they legally take a dim view like a number of major broadcasters did with regards to TV Catchup a few years ago.


Looking at their website, it does appear more legitimate than TV Catchup ever was, and they've recently struck a deal with Viacom to bring their channels to the platform.
BR
Brekkie
Seems legit now, but only ever read about it on a516digital.
DB
dbl
TV Player is legit, it's just another form of distribution to Discovery.
DV
dvboy
Ticker on Discovery
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LL
London Lite Founding member
TV Player is most certainly legit, mainly thanks to the baffling rights issues where one group of channels is on one platform and not on another. Incidentally to keep it on topic, all of Discovery's pay tv channels on TV Player are on all platforms including Eurosport.

NOW TV only loses the main Discovery channel, which isn't a major loss. Sky's proposed docs channel may actually be better than what they currently show.
WH
Whataday Founding member
This will only have any effect on Sky if Discovery can hold their nerve and other networks follow suit. When does UKTV's deal end?
RE
Rex
All of this reminds me of similar events in the past:
http://images.digitalspy.co.uk/itvdigital/closedown-uktv.jpg
http://images.digitalspy.co.uk/itvdigital/closedown-mtv.jpg
http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/c6da8b4d0bfcd95022e4f6241de31f3e-320-80.jpg
DV
dvboy
Sky's FAQ suggest the ball is in Discovery's court from 1 Feb if no deal is reached, in that they can keep broadcasting but won't be getting any money from Sky.

Quote:
Sky has chosen not to renew its contract with Discovery, and at any point from 1 February, Discovery can remove them from the Sky platform.


https://www.sky.com/help/articles/changes-to-sky-channels

I don't know if this is just poorly worded, or technically accurate.
GO
gottago
MetalGearRex posted:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/12/skys-high-price-for-football-rights-puts-squeeze-on-channel-prov/

So this has been going on for multiple months - not surprised.

As an aside I see cwilliams1976 is now making a living as a Telegraph reporter.
BR
Brekkie
Difference is Discovery seem unlikely to go the free to air/view route but it would seem quite viable for UKTV to switch their remaining channels to free considering they're half way there and the likes of Gold and Watch aren't exactly offering premium content.
VM
VMPhil
MetalGearRex posted:
All of this reminds me of similar events in the past:

And also of course, the Telewest dispute with Nickelodeon, with the advert that amazingly is still available on Digital Spy's server:

http://media.digitalspy.co.uk/cable/nickelodeon.off.telewest.20041216.divx5.avi

For those without DivX:

JA
JAS84
MetalGearRex posted:

Well, the ITV Digital case was different, that wasn't a dispute, it was a platform going out of business.

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