SKY+ in Ireland

BanjoDanjo

Does anyone one know if and when sky+ will be available in Ireland.
Tried calling them but the girl who answered the phones seemed like she didnt care.
Wouldn't find out for me.

ShaneOC

My favourite gripe with Sky :rolleyes:

The latest is that it should be available here in February, but I'll believe it when I see it.

BanjoDanjo

yeah, i know what you mean.
I've heard rumours about every month since last july.

ShaneOC

In various emails and calls from Sky, I have been told

Early 2002
Easter 2002
June 2002
Late Summer 2002
Mid Autumn 2002
Early 2003

I wonder if the pattern will continue... :rolleyes:

bmg

i got aletter from sky this week saying it's delayed until march

BanjoDanjo

Then it'll be april .. and so on.
at least you got a letter.

They seem to be very ignorant on the phone when you ring up asking about it?

Mark_irl

Will arrive same time ITV/CH4 arrives !!!!!!!

wolfman

LATE being the "main" word here!!!

robert muldoon

Originally posted by ShaneOC
My favourite gripe with Sky :rolleyes:

The latest is that it should be available here in February, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I do honestly believe that Sky+ will be here well before UTV-Ch4 as there are too many issues to be sorted out with UTV etc, so lets hope we see it here in the next three months

John R

There are some new Sky+ ads being shown now, a new marketing push. I have seen them on several channels (Sky and non Sky) including Sky one Ireland, but that may not have any relevance on an Irish launch. AFAIK the take-up has not been very high so far in the UK.
There are still reliability issues with the boxes, although I would find the system very useful, if it cannot be relied upon to record every time I don't think I would be willing to pay for it ,especially the higher sub.

shabbyroad

My guess is that they will want to saturate the market here with as many subs as possible on the current boxes.


There'll be a critical mass that will then start having expired contracts.
I expect Sky will then launch Sky+ here in order to not only hold onto the current crop of subscribers but will persuade many of them to get mirror subscriptions and/or the Sky+ service.

Would not at all surprise me if ITV/Channel4 launched based on a similar need. Right now they can sell their current service to most people without having the setup and support costs for Sky+.

It will take some investment for them to launch Sky+ here and right now they're still in investment mode with SkyDigital - all those subsidized boxes won't 'recoup' for a while yet.

The glass could be half-full though : the folks in the UK are basically beta-testing this product and , hopefully, by the time Sky+ is launched here most of the wrinkles will have been ironed out.

Tony

My information from the sky rep is that issues other than the ones you mentioned are holding this up, recording rights issues etc sounds like a right shambles.

Tony

Originally posted by shabbyroad
My guess is that they will want to saturate the market here with as many subs as possible on the current boxes.


There'll be a critical mass that will then start having expired contracts.
I expect Sky will then launch Sky+ here in order to not only hold onto the current crop of subscribers but will persuade many of them to get mirror subscriptions and/or the Sky+ service.

Would not at all surprise me if ITV/Channel4 launched based on a similar need. Right now they can sell their current service to most people without having the setup and support costs for Sky+.

It will take some investment for them to launch Sky+ here and right now they're still in investment mode with SkyDigital - all those subsidized boxes won't 'recoup' for a while yet.

The glass could be half-full though : the folks in the UK are basically beta-testing this product and , hopefully, by the time Sky+ is launched here most of the wrinkles will have been ironed out.

ShaneOC

Originally posted by Tony
My information from the sky rep is that issues other than the ones you mentioned are holding this up, recording rights issues etc sounds like a right shambles.

Tony

I was given this recording rights bull as well. So I contacted the Irish government and the BCI. I was put in contact with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. They told me that the copyright legislation is technology independant, quoted the actual legislation and then went on to say that they could not see any rights issues with the introduction of PVR technology.

I sent this information off to Sky recently, so I'm sure they'll be on to me soon :rolleyes: