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(October 2009)

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JD
JDN
slashtvUK posted:
JAS84 posted:

And yes, News Corp sold its stake in Sky Mexico to DirecTV years ago.

News Corp should divest itself of Sky full stop.


Why should they?
RD
rdd Founding member
Particularly when News Corp don't have any shareholding in Sky!

(since the demerger of 21st Century Fox, that is).
JA
JAS84
Yeah - but they did at the time I was talking about, which is why I said News Corp and not Fox.
RD
rdd Founding member
But I was replying to the person who suggested that News Corp should sell their stake in Sky.....
ST
Stuart
rdd posted:
I had mentioned in the thread on the Sky Cinema rebrand, I can't imagine that the NVOD Sky Box Office movies service has much more life left in it - a relic of a different era at this stage.

Blimey, I've just had a look and they now only operate 19 SBO channels. Back in the day, they had up to 70 of these providing the NVOD service.


Presumably, there are only people with the old silver non-HD Sky/Sky+ boxes still using SBO?
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Stuart posted:
rdd posted:
I had mentioned in the thread on the Sky Cinema rebrand, I can't imagine that the NVOD Sky Box Office movies service has much more life left in it - a relic of a different era at this stage.

Blimey, I've just had a look and they now only operate 19 SBO channels. Back in the day, they had up to 70 of these providing the NVOD service.

Presumably, there are only people with the old silver non-HD Sky/Sky+ boxes still using SBO?


No. You can still get those through Sky+HD if you really wanted to, though there doesn't seem to be much point as they're linear and not HD compared to Sky Store which does offer them in HD and on-demand (Plus Buy & Keep as well, though some of the pricing is quite steep!)
IN
Interceptor
Stuart posted:
rdd posted:
I had mentioned in the thread on the Sky Cinema rebrand, I can't imagine that the NVOD Sky Box Office movies service has much more life left in it - a relic of a different era at this stage.

Blimey, I've just had a look and they now only operate 19 SBO channels. Back in the day, they had up to 70 of these providing the NVOD service.


Presumably, there are only people with the old silver non-HD Sky/Sky+ boxes still using SBO?

The original Thomson and Samsung Sky +HD boxes were not upgraded for on demand stuff, but they pretty actively promoted that customers could have their box replaced for free with a 12 month contract (anyone can do this in fact).
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
https://skyepginfo.co.uk/Firmware/SkyPlusHD.php suggests only the Thomson boxes were not on-demand capable, it didn't have a network port on it which may have had something to do with it. Presumably it had some stuff pushed to it over the air via Showcase, but had no way of getting anything else as it couldn't talk to the outside world.

The Pace and Samsung boxes are listed as on demand capable.

31 days later

ED
edmund
Spotted a new Sky1 ident yesterday evening. Two marble themed break bumpers have also been launched. This brings the total number of Sky1 idents to five. Good to see they are adding idents to keep the channel fresh.
http://presentationarchive.com/sky12016/marbles.mp4
ST
Ste Founding member
Sky to launch Sky 1 in Germany - http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2016/07/28/sky-to-launch-sky-1-in-germany-and-austria/
RE
Rex
Stuart posted:
rdd posted:
I had mentioned in the thread on the Sky Cinema rebrand, I can't imagine that the NVOD Sky Box Office movies service has much more life left in it - a relic of a different era at this stage.

Blimey, I've just had a look and they now only operate 19 SBO channels. Back in the day, they had up to 70 of these providing the NVOD service.


Presumably, there are only people with the old silver non-HD Sky/Sky+ boxes still using SBO?

I'm sure some use the Sky+HD boxes for SBO. But their days are numbered, as evidenced by Sky's plan to reduce the number of SD boxes in use. They've been wanting to move completely into DVB-S2, but how it's been done won't be disclosed.

Interesting to see how this will affect Sky Box Office, which has been superseded by the Sky Store, and Sky2, which has been diluted by Catch Up TV and Sky Boxsets.
PI
picard
Neil Jones posted:
https://skyepginfo.co.uk/Firmware/SkyPlusHD.php suggests only the Thomson boxes were not on-demand capable, it didn't have a network port on it which may have had something to do with it. Presumably it had some stuff pushed to it over the air via Showcase, but had no way of getting anything else as it couldn't talk to the outside world.

The Pace and Samsung boxes are listed as on demand capable.


Thomson did have network ports, Sky never switched them on.

The boxes were dog slow and only had on-"demand" over satellite. i.e. box records stuff overnight.

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