BSKYB's porofits up 26%

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BSKYB have announced operating profits for 6 months of £520 million up 26% and now has 10.1 million subscribers with 3.5 million HD subscribers,with 140,000 new customers joining in the final 3 months of 2010.
That's some serious profit considering a recession.As much a free tv is an attraction it goes to show that pay tv is thriving despite people cutting back on spending,the pub trade is dying as more and more people invest in home entertainment.
With 3.5 million HD subscribers that would probably mean the hd sub is staying for another while at least due to the huge amount of money it draws into Sky's coffers.

gtg60

I don't like Sky but I do subscribe and am the first to admit that their business model and tactics (however questionable) are second to none!
You think they might come in and run our country for a while til it gets back on it's feet? :rolleyes:

Minstrel27

Rupert Murdoch for Taoiseach? I'd rather have Ian Paisley

gtg60

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Rupert Murdoch for Taoiseach? I'd rather have Ian Paisley

I didn't actually mean it, hence the :rolleyes:

NIMAN

zerks wrote: »

BSKYB have announced operating profits for 6 months of £520 million up 26% and now has 10.1 million subscribers with 3.5 million HD subscribers,with 140,000 new customers joining in the final 3 months of 2010.
That's some serious profit considering a recession.As much a free tv is an attraction it goes to show that pay tv is thriving despite people cutting back on spending,the pub trade is dying as more and more people invest in home entertainment.
With 3.5 million HD subscribers that would probably mean the hd sub is staying for another while at least due to the huge amount of money it draws into Sky's coffers.

Thats £35mill per month, just for those folk to have the privilege of HD programming!! You can see why all the calls for the £10 monthly fee for HD to be dropped is falling on deaf ears.

I hate $ky, but you gotta admire their marketing and business.

Cantona's Collars

NIMAN wrote: »

Sky

Fixed that for you.

Zardoz

I'd imagine alot of the new customers are people switching from the cable network in the UK which switched to Nagra 3 encryption towards the latter part of 2010 .

ftakeith

Zardoz wrote: »

I'd imagine alot of the new customers are people switching from the cable network in the UK which switched to Nagra 3 encryption towards the latter part of 2010 .

sky are still churning 9%-10% every quarter

most persons are only keeping the pack they mostly watch with sport/movies etc alongside freesat/freeview in 2 other rooms,
sky also offer broadband, tv and phone for under £20 compared to just 23 euro for tv only in ireland

murdoch for taoiseach, yes he would be good for not giving the true picture!

Dman001

70,000 signed up to Sky 3D, very impressive.

watty

Dman001 wrote: »

70,000 signed up to Sky 3D, very impressive.

30,000,000 Digital TVs.

Actually people are getting ripped off as it costs about 40c to make a TV be Stereoscopic 3D. The only extra is a little IR LED to send "sync" pulse to LCD glasses (left right frame).

The signal is 2off 960x1080i images (left & right eye) in a regular 1920x1080i frame. Any modern HD Setbox or TV can alternately make each half be the full screen.

In time all TVs will be 3D even if you don't want it and the extra will be the glasses at €50 a pair!

http://www.techtir.ie/tv-radio/3d-tv

It's a gimmick. Doesn't work for a significant number of people, illusion is destroyed if you move your head, causes headaches for a lot of people, not real 3D and currently means HD with 1/2 the quality of image.

watty

Zardoz wrote: »

I'd imagine alot of the new customers are people switching from the cable network in the UK which switched to Nagra 3 encryption towards the latter part of 2010 .

No, that would be a minority. Most People on cable will either sign up or use Freeview or Freesat.

In Ireland UPC are now getting Sky customers. Due to bundle of Broadband and phone.

A lot of the UK customer growth is NOT TV, that is near saturation. Sky's main UK customer growth has been Broadband, which they don't and can't offer here!

snaps

watty wrote: »

A lot of the UK customer growth is NOT TV, that is near saturation. Sky's main UK customer growth has been Broadband, which they don't and can't offer here!

They can offer Broadband here, but i think they made a statement a few years back saying it wasn't worth their cost and time as the cost was too much and they wouldn't be competitive

watty

You mean in theory they could, but that they don't actually, because they actually want to give near universal coverage (mostly impossible outside suburban) and want to make a profit (no-one makes any money reselling DSL, that's why Perlico lost Millions, why BT gave retail to Vodafone, why Digiweb got TalkTalk's Irish customers for a song and why Smart went bust and Digiweb got Smart's customers) Digiweb makes almost nothing from DSL. all their profit is from Data Hosting, Wireless Broadband, Satellite and fibre.

So Sky will not be launching Broadband in Ireland any time soon.

Dman001

watty wrote: »

30,000,000 Digital TVs.

Actually people are getting ripped off as it costs about 40c to make a TV be Stereoscopic 3D. The only extra is a little IR LED to send "sync" pulse to LCD glasses (left right frame).

The signal is 2off 960x1080i images (left & right eye) in a regular 1920x1080i frame. Any modern HD Setbox or TV can alternately make each half be the full screen.

In time all TVs will be 3D even if you don't want it and the extra will be the glasses at €50 a pair!

http://www.techtir.ie/tv-radio/3d-tv

It's a gimmick. Doesn't work for a significant number of people, illusion is destroyed if you move your head, causes headaches for a lot of people, not real 3D and currently means HD with 1/2 the quality of image.

Agree it's a gimmick, but that was the point I was making. I'm surprised there was such a large volume of people interested in Sky 3D.

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watty wrote: »

In Ireland UPC are now getting Sky customers. Due to bundle of Broadband and phone

UPC are losing tv customers,broadband is becoming their mainstay.People are copping on that triple play isn't as good value as it seems and are mixing their providers by using Sky or FTA.