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Am I correct in assuming that Sky will only be broadcast the new series of Lost on Sky 1 HD and not the SD version of Sky 1? If so I may need to resort to "ahem" other methods! From looking at the Sky1 HD website it seems to infer that this will be the case. Can anyone confirm one way or the other?

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Well that would equally alienate a large number of their own subscribers so I would suspect that it will be on Sky 1 SD also.

I have noticed more recently that they tend to advertise programmes as being on Sky 1 HD...think we are expected to know it will be on the SD version too :)

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If you check out the Sky website it says "Lost - only on Sky1 HD"

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Linkage?

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Like I said, it just seems to market Sky 1 & Sky1 HD as simply Sky 1 HD these days.

They would lose a lot of advertising revenue (which partially funds such programme acquisitions) if they didn't show these programmes is SD :)

Link: http://sky1.sky.com/ (should appear as the main advert in the centre of the screen)

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I would read that as "Only on Sky - not on Channel 4 any more, and not likely to be any time soon, so how about you subscribe to Sky now please? I mean, we bought Lost so you would, but you didn't, and now we're a bit strapped for cash ... go on, pretty please ... ?" ;)

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You may have also noticed that Sky have been putting up banners on new shows being aired on Sky 1 SD, advising its customers (and having a sneaky swipe at non Sky customers such as VM) that the show is also being shown on Sky 1 HD. As well as this they seem to advertise new series as being on Sky HD and not mentioning SD.

Its obviously a ploy to upsell its HD services to its customers, whilst not telling them that it doesn't matter, the show is on Sky 1 SD anyway. :)

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Thanks to broadband and a subscription to astranews i will not have a problem and i will get them in HD ;)

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And usually before it is shown on Sky.

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Indeed ;)

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Is this the same Sky 1 that virgin was DESPERATE to get back when sky removed it from them. You can get anything from the net so why do you bother having a TV service at all.

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Virgin were not DESPERATE to get Sky back.

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No it was the reverse and aren't they pleased to be able to advertise Sky HD on Virgin..;)

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They advertised House as coming to Sky 1 HD but it's on both

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So why did Virgin take Sky 1 back then if it wasn't in their best interests to do so. They could have said no instead of making it a big deal when they did get it back.

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Not everyone knows how to use a computer and not everyone has internet - TV wins always in my opinion.

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It was only in their best interests to do so when Sky offered it at a fair price. If VM were desperate to get Sky back, they would have caved a lot earlier.

Sky was hit hard with the advertising revenue loss as a result of losing the Virgin customer base, not the other way round.

Lets not try and go off topic though, this is all in the past.

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At the beginning of the row between Virgin and Sky, Sky was paying next to nothing for Virgin's Flextech channels (UKTV etc), whilst demanding top dollar for the Sky Basics. At the end of the row, the whole lot had been re-negotiated, effectively valuing Flextech and Sky Basics as being worth exactly the same.

The outcome was a major triumph for Virgin and a major humiliation for Sky, which was always going to have to climb down - after all, James Murdoch himself is a great believer in rampant capitalism, he more than anyone else should have been reminding his underlings that a product is only ever worth what the market is prepared to pay for it, not what you demand for it.

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You can also grab Lost legally from iTunes in high-def. (well, half high-def)

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Well if they are going to alienate the non Sky HD viewers, then (guess) we'll have to resort to the trusted method of watching the series by going on to:

Admin edit (Chris): Please do not link to Bittorrent files unless you own the copyright in them and are in a position to grant permission to download.


I know it's a bit of messing about but one way of treating Murdochitis. I know that this works, cos I never missed an episode of Lost when Sky 1 (and the other programmes) originally disappeared from our screens.

In fact If you ever miss an episode of (just about) any programme shown on TV then this is the place where you'll most likely be able to catch up.

Where there's a will! ;)

Si thee :Sprint:

edit
Duly noted - apologies

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It's much better to watch programmes on TV rather than hunched over a computer. Hopefully, when IPTV is launched on Virgin Media, we will be able to watch these programmes from the internet on our TVs. Now that would be progress!

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mmmm is that legal? One hand its not ok for cable tv pirates and on the other downloading copyright content is fine? There's always 50meg BB for casual browsing..IMAO

You sort of lose creditability in some of the discussions.

Any how just winding you up a bit..:rolleyes:

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No, it's not legal, and we don't allow any detailed discussion about how to infringe copyright, whether by torrents, newsgroups or whatever else.