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Originally Posted by LexDiamond
The quote you posted specifically referred to Sky Atlantic HD and not the SD version. There is no evidence from that quote that Sky want to withhold the content.
Sky isn't a monopoly though. And pay tv prices are very reasonable in the UK. Comparing it to other activities, it is cheap.
Taking the example of Sky Atlantic, it is free to Sky customers. It costs them nothing. Under regulation, if this was made available to all platforms at the same price then either Sky's sub would go up or profits go down. Either way Sky is worse off for paying for HBO content and putting it on to a channel.
Like I said Sky isn't a monopoly. Regulating a company that isn't a monopoly is like punishing it for being too successful. And regulation in non monopoly situations will inevitably be to weaken that company's position which will one way or another lead to higher prices.
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Sky always say HD when they mention channels. I've seen sky customers complain that if you were to go by their advertising their content isn't available on sd channels. I really don't know how much clearer they could be when they say they are using this channel to further grow the
content gap between themselves and other platforms.
The rest of your post and subsequent posts just seem to be taking the side of a company who are misusing their dominant position to the detriment of the general public. Like Mersey70 has said, with a bit of luck this might looked in to the competition commission who will hopefully take into account the interests of us customers and not Just Sky's interests. Whatever happens Sky will be laughing all the way to the bank. If they were to make this channel available to all platforms they would make more money out of it but they wouldn't be using their dominant position to poach customers off other platforms. And wouldn't that be more advantageous to us customers?