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Originally Posted by ianathuth
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I wish that all those people moaning about evil Sky were in full possession of all the facts before sounding off. Do they know all the ins and outs of the contracts involved, prices charges, technical ability to provide a multi screen service across the whole NTL network and all other factors involved. What would the moaners say if the boot was on the other foot and NTL had more content on a channel than Sky had and Sky customers were moaning.
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Which in a circular way comes back to the Govt. and evil OFCOM.
If NTL or whomever had been able to cable the entire country, not parts then pickoff the rest, there would be a coherent infrastructure meaning providing multiscreen etc would be less technically challenging, sky certainly have a benefit of running a single platform.
OFCOM have let Sky railroad the country into digital sat broadcasting and thinking multichannel is the domain of sat broadcasting, compare to the US, where only now is Sat starting to get a foothold, and purely through price competition against the cable incumbants.