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Originally Posted by Losttheplot
A Sky HD box from ebay will give BBC, Luxe HD (!) and C4 HD once the card is transferred, plus more channels than Freesat (at the moment).
At the moment with Freesat he'd have to be happy with BBC HD and Luxe HD (!)
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plus their cheaper from eBay then direct from Sky.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
True, but very short-term thinking, for a number of reasons:
1. eBay. Would you, really? I've never bought 2nd hand electronics off there and I never would. And I *definitely* would never buy a Sky box off eBay, with the number of viewing card scams that are out there.
2. ITV HD will not be on Sky. Which has p***ed James Murdoch off no end. He don't like it up 'im, Cap'n Mainwaring, Sir!
3. The iPlayer will not be on Sky.
4. Quantity of channels is not an issue, because the channels currently on FreesatfromSky will progressively start appearing on Freesat as and when any rights issues are resolved.
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unless you make silly mistakes eBay is very safe i got my Sky receiver from eBay with a free viewing card.
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Originally Posted by Losttheplot
Theres another way of looking at the ITV HD thing. ITV have deprived themselves of advertising revenue on HD programmes of over 200,000! At this time ITV are also struggling to make money from advertising (they bought Friends Reunited in a failed attempt to find additional revenue sources). I know for a fact Sky offered to provide red button access to ITV HD on their existing system.
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also dont Sky have shares in ITV ?
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Originally Posted by Losttheplot
A Mod should do a Freesat sticky! 
OK, I've never ever, used interactive on any platform. I use my STB for TV, and have laptops for surfing the web.
It will be interesting to see whether Freesats MHEG provides a big difference in interactive apps over Sky's (Kudelski supplied) OpenTV, I believe the Freesat EPG is also MHEG. |
OpenTV is the standard across the world.