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Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar
Fair point, no ntl would not add Joe Publics kit to the CAS!!!
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Yet at the moment they won't provide their own equivilant either. My Mother in Law has the SA8000 box, its fantastic. I want one. The product exists, all NTL has to do is work out the monthly rental and start installing them.
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Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar
Snowballs and Hell come to mind regarding Sky and a CI module tho. They already have 7 million subscribers, and I can't see people leaving them for this functionality.
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But these people would not be leaving sky, just decoding on a different piece of kit. Being as sky boxes are sold, not rented I can't see this being a problem as Sky already have boxes manufactured by Panasonic and the like. It will not increase their support overhead.
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Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar
Again I will point out tho that the broadcasters will not be happy with perfect recordings which can be copied and swopped between people.
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Sky plus records the digital stream. Recording must be falling in popularity as the number of +1s and Mix channels increase. E.g Friends is now on E4 then E4+1 then later that evening (and +1) then Second Chance Sunday (&+1) then on C4 the next week and I'm sure there is a C4 repeat too.
I don't bother recording it as I have about 8 chances to watch it!
The old stuff not out elsewhere is where they are missing out. I think whoever is recording all the 'All Creatures Great and Small's would hapily buy them on DVD if they could but the BBC needs to sort it's arcive release rate out.