Just thought I'd point out that I've just had to give advice to a Sky customer on how to remove what is in my opinion Sky's pathetic attempt at Video On Demand.
Obviously ntl has it bang on for the delivery of Video On Demand where you use your TV and remote and simply select On Demand and select your choice of programme and or film from the menu.
Sky (SkyByBroadband - SBB) you download an application to your PC and the graphical application you run gives you the choices (like on ntl TV) of programmes/movies, you then have to download the eg: +/- 600MB movie and or +/- 300MB programme (size depends on length of programme/movie choice) and wait and wait, for it to download so you can watch on your PC!
Now if your on a broadband providers bandwidth restricted tier - your going to get a very nasty shock when you see your bill for excess bandwidth and these download sizes will cost a good few pounds - all adds up very quickly.
Sky also add some services to your PC for their application to run eg: Kservice.exe and Khost.exe - these are delivery applications required for SBB.
These files will start-up everytime you start your PC even when you don't run/use SBB and these applications will open and use port 8080 and use bandwidth even when not in use (again using bandwidth).
If you un-install SBB these 2 files named above remain and remain active on your PC using, listening and connecting without you knowing.
It takes some knowledge and or skill to remove these SBB files from your system to restore to a state where they aren't used by your PC.
Now remembering ntl's Video On Demand is wholly used via your remote control, ntl digital set-top box and TV and there's no download required to your PC (unlike Sky) with all these potential hazards involved - a truly Video On Demand as it should be
