[McYorkie]

Originally Posted by Neil

You'll still get it installed to watch the World Cup/Wimbledon/24/Premiership Footy/Planet Earth etc in HD by May-let's just see if you'll be able to do that with an ntl 'service'....?

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http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....266&highlight=

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03...ch_for_sky_hd/

Now-what are all the ntl customers that want HDTV going to do, how are they going to watch The World Cup etc in HD?

Not through an (MPEG2) ntl TV box, that's for sure.

As usual, ntl have been caught napping.

Spot on assessment as usual Neil . I've been thinking the same for quite a while, what with all the merger discussions/management jobs being carved up amongst the companies they totally took their eyes off the ball and have left Sky an open goal into which they've kicked the ball today. The announcement may just prove to be the tipping point for some customers who may be fed up of waiting with total silence from ntl on the subject, apart from those vague press releases from last October, which now ring very hollow.

Couple that with the shortsighted decision to drop MPEG4 boxes which had already been ordered, which were more bandwidth and hard drive efficent than the MPEG2 boxes being rolled out to TW areas and you can see another walkover victory by Sky happening again. So much for the PVR being a "killer application" for cable - the silence from ntl:Telewest on rollout to our side in light of the developments in the last 48 hours is deafening.