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Originally Posted by Paul
Small point here, but you cannot possibly know what future plans they have.
Its clear Sky are looking at moving to streaming.
All their new products are streaming based, and have no HDs.
They no longer promote Sky Q, the last product to use a Dish and HD.
The new football delivery system is largely stream based, even on Q boxes.
By 2028, they will have to decide what to do about all their satellite products.
Their contract to use current Astra's expires, and the satellites themselves reach projected EOL in 2029.
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I appreciate that things can, and do, change. However OB consistently presents this in absolute terms, for all broadcasters and across all platforms against his own preferred timeline of 2035.
The future of satellite broadcasting is uncertain in the long term but at the same time SES are starting to renew their fleet at 19.2E. Sky’s next steps will largely be guided by how many customers wouldn’t have the option to migrate to equivalent services over broadband, and the availability of satellite capacity - whether SES can squeeze more life out of those in place or whether they have alternate capacity that could be made available.
Satellite operators are continuing to invest in launches - although I appreciate that doesn’t necessarily mean they will for the UK.