Another Nail in the Coffin of Chorus and NTL

spongebob

BBC will go to Free , Unscrambled Satellite in May.

For an investment of €400-500 Euros, one off, you can get the Beeb + Eurosport and lots of Northern European channels, Free from May.

As NTL/Chorus charge around €25 a month for these...albeit including ITV and C4 as well, it would not take long to get your investment back.

Looks like they have to get serious about Gamers and Data in order to keep those punters ...... indeed.

M

LFCFan

will we ordinary Sky Digital subscribers be able to get all the BBC channels FTA too?

spongebob

<muck with beady eye out for mods sez>

apparently so ..... it will be on the same sat as SKY or right nearby, same frequencies etc etc but under OTHER channels and not in the programming groups on the handsets.

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parasite

and you can get rte on satellite too right, and tv3 ?
and, as always what about utv and C4 ?

zz03

Originally posted by Muck
BBC will go to Free , Unscrambled Satellite in May.

Perhaps an even bigger nail in the coffin for BSkyB!

It is only a matter of time before other British companies follow the lead. It was a dumb deal for the BBC. The availability of their programming on the Sky system added perhaps a billion or more to the valuation of that company. Instead of getting a big share if this value back the dopes paid Sky 85 million in encryption fees! Ditto for RTE.

Leaving Murdoch with over-priced Simpsons and other dumb the planet down content (presumably in the hope that they will continue to stuff themselves with a certain brand of pizza and continue to read rubbish tabloid papers)?

Across Europe much of the free to air terrestrial has also been free to air on digital satellite - from a common position in the sky (ie 19.2 to 13.0 degrees E) where a single small dish can access. Thousands of TV and radio channels that work with dozens of satellite receivers (not just one low quality proprietory platform outsourced to a few screwdriver plants as with BskyB).

The exceptions have been insular RTE and BBC who refused to make their domestic programming available Europe-wide.

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http://www.lyngsat.com/europe.shtml

sceptre

More a TV/Satellite thing (actually, totally a satellite thing, though I can see the possible relevance wrt Chorus trundling gently towards the bankrupcy courts).

Moving to the Cable/MMDS/etc forum then (I'll leave a redirect here)

icdg

Indeed Spectre, there's a rather big discussion of all the issues for DSat users going on over there in Satellite.

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