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davidthornton 14-07-2011 17:28
Labour MP Chris Bryant mentions TiVo live on Sky News
 
Labour MP Chris Bryant was being interviewed on Sky News today. At approximately 17:13 he talked about some of the great things they've done at first, including interactive, and Sky+ but then mentioned that Sky + "was a steal from the United States where they had TiVo before us". He then went on to state that the company was anti competative in the way they bundle their channels. However that is for another forum, not in here. :)

Charliedontsurf 14-07-2011 17:36
Re: Labour MP Chris Bryant mentions TiVo live on Sky News
 
LOL.............

I bet you nearly wet yourself when Tivo was mentioned ON THE NEWS...It almost makes me want your autograph

devilincarnate 14-07-2011 17:42
Re: Labour MP Chris Bryant mentions TiVo live on Sky News
 
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Originally Posted by davidthornton (Post 35273268)
Labour MP Chris Bryant was being interviewed on Sky News today. At approximately 17:13 he talked about some of the great things they've done at first, including interactive, and Sky+ but then mentioned that Sky + "was a steal from the United States where they had TiVo before us". He then went on to state that the company was anti competative in the way they bundle their channels. However that is for another forum, not in here. :)
Very true and he also mentioned about the advertising budget of the 2 in the House of Commons debate yesterday.

denphone 14-07-2011 17:42
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Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf (Post 35273276)
LOL.............

I bet you nearly wet yourself when Tivo was mentioned ON THE NEWS...It almost makes me want your autograph
You are getting excited again Charlie.;)

Charliedontsurf 14-07-2011 17:45
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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35273285)
You are getting excited again Charlie.;)
YES this is great news

Maggy 14-07-2011 17:51
Re: Labour MP Chris Bryant mentions TiVo live on Sky News
 
I suggest that everyone sticks to the topic.Any off topic posting risks being removed.

LexDiamond 14-07-2011 19:53
Re: Labour MP Chris Bryant mentions TiVo live on Sky News
 
Wow, now that these politicians don't need to suck up to Murdoch any more they seem to be growing a pair.

So just a few weeks ago Sky was so great an origanisation that News Corp could take over full ownership and the world would be a great place and now that Murdoch has MP's on his back this genius comes out with its packages don't allow competition? I would have thought bundling is irrelevant in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm still surprised how no one raised the issue over VM's channel sale to Sky only for Sky to eliminate Freeview channels in order to get one up on BT and freeview.

davidthornton 14-07-2011 20:00
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Originally Posted by LexDiamond (Post 35273434)
Wow, now that these politicians don't need to suck up to Murdoch any more they seem to be growing a pair.

So just a few weeks ago Sky was so great an origanisation that News Corp could take over full ownership and the world would be a great place and now that Murdoch has MP's on his back this genius comes out with its packages don't allow competition? I would have thought bundling is irrelevant in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm still surprised how no one raised the issue over VM's channel sale to Sky only for Sky to eliminate Freeview channels in order to get one up on BT and freeview.
The Labour MP did comment, incorrectly I felt, that some of his constituents were forced to pay Sky for television because no other services functioned in their particular locations (including Freeview I assumed). Surely Freesat should be available to them, which is nothing to do with Sky.

Jameseh 14-07-2011 20:31
Re: Labour MP Chris Bryant mentions TiVo live on Sky News
 
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Originally Posted by davidthornton (Post 35273441)
The Labour MP did comment, incorrectly I felt, that some of his constituents were forced to pay Sky for television because no other services functioned in their particular locations (including Freeview I assumed). Surely Freesat should be available to them, which is nothing to do with Sky.
Maybe they meant sports which Sky Sports nor ESPN is available on Freesat.

LexDiamond 14-07-2011 21:59
Re: Labour MP Chris Bryant mentions TiVo live on Sky News
 
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Originally Posted by davidthornton (Post 35273441)
The Labour MP did comment, incorrectly I felt, that some of his constituents were forced to pay Sky for television because no other services functioned in their particular locations (including Freeview I assumed). Surely Freesat should be available to them, which is nothing to do with Sky.
I doubt he meant that (unless he is very stupid) as Sky have covered their backs against this accusation by offering freesat from sky.

davidthornton 14-07-2011 22:06
Re: Labour MP Chris Bryant mentions TiVo live on Sky News
 
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Originally Posted by LexDiamond (Post 35273518)
I doubt he meant that (unless he is very stupid) as Sky have covered their backs against this accusation by offering freesat from sky.
Sure, and there's also Freesat (not the same as Freesat from Sky) which uses an alternative EPG. He's the MP for Rhondda so it follows that he was referring to areas there where cable is unavailable and Freeview signal is either poor or non-existant. I felt he was talking without being in full possession of the facts. There were other competitors to TiVo prior, or around the same time as, Sky+ was launched. The idea of a PVR wasn't unique to TiVo back then.


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