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I'm with Telewest/Blueyonder AKA Telewest/Blueyonder/NTL AKATelewest/Blueyonder/NTL/Virgin Media... Phew!
Anyway.. I'm glad Sir R Branson has stood by his guns over this. If Sky could get away with it, they would do to the cable company what they did to BSB (remember the 'squariels?). Losing a few channels not too many people watch, with the exception of maybe Sky 1 is no great loss, and maybe us cable users will end up with a better deal in the long run - here's hoping anyway. My favorite channel is intact (Hallmark), and there are 'other' ways of watching a lot of the shows we'll lose when the plug is pulled on Sky 1.. |
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Heh, that was the first question SWMBO asked me when she heard about all this malarky. I think she knows the word for word script for every cop/detective type drama on that channel
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.and all of this neatly coincides with the BBC getting their free view satellite service under way
http://news.independent.co.uk/busine...cle2311375.ece Over here in Northern Ireland, its only the people in places like Belfast that can get cable, and freeview, the rest of us have no choice other than to have sky for any sort of decent picture until the change over in 2012. Although we can use the "freesat" option with sky, its still £150 for the equipment and their "basic" install (they throw the cable over your roof and drill a hole in the wall) unless you buy your own dish and box from a local installer (that works out almost as expensive) then its £20 for the viewing card. I look forward to the BBC getting it off the ground as the more choice we have, the less chance of that greedy NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD- murdock has of ripping people off
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The Trouble is Murdoch owns so much with the Film Studios, Film Distribution Companies he has such a Monopoly and money to throw at it. All this started because he bought into ITV to stop NTL/Virgin takeover now its going Pear Shaped for the Viewer. A lot of the Film Library Virgin have is also leased from Sky/Murdoch Group.
Skys income is now more than all the Cable Companies & Terestrial (Excluding BBC) But there FreeSat Package is cheaper if you have to instal new Digital Aerial (over 70% country) + a half decent Freeview box with twin tuners. There was a James Bond film very like this whole episode not so long ago when the Satellite Company tried to Control the World...Was Fiction wasn't it! |
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Ok, there are far too many big words and far too many.....well.....words completely in this thread and my head is hurting. I'm with Virgin Media......in short can someone explain simply what it all means?
(Incidentally I like Richard Branson and trust him and believe that he would do the best thing for his customers.) Goodness my fish are smacking the side of the tank, do you think they're hungry?
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Well we're with sky, the service here is diabolical, you'll be sat there watching something, then it'll loose signal and won't regain it for anywhere from 5mins to an hour! It wouldn't be so bad, but most of it is repeats from earlier in the week, or re runs. Glad to see my £45 a month is well spent! I was quite happy with ITV Digital until that went belly up, and Blurgh wants everything digital so the analogue signals can be switched off? Great idea NOT!
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Ach weel, don't watch them anyway. So long as I don't lose Living I'll be happy.
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