Sky hd for tower blocks

kirk1690 · 02-04-2009, 16:40

Now I have been told having only lived in a tower block for a few months that you can get sky standard but you cannot get skyplus or skyplus hd because of the extra feeds they need now if this is true surely sky could make an exception and provide the hd package to virgin subscribers in properties that are in this situation , they wouldn't be losing money cause we cannot switch anyway so they would be making money, think il write to mr sky.

gadge · 02-04-2009, 16:56

Wrong forum fella try here.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/92/

Stuart · 02-04-2009, 16:58

Sky would be unlikely to do this. There is little profit in it for then..

**Chris** · 02-04-2009, 17:18

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Originally Posted by kirk1690

Now I have been told having only lived in a tower block for a few months that you can get sky standard but you cannot get skyplus or skyplus hd because of the extra feeds they need now if this is true surely sky could make an exception and provide the hd package to virgin subscribers in properties that are in this situation , they wouldn't be losing money cause we cannot switch anyway so they would be making money, think il write to mr sky.

Hell will freeze over first. Sky is pushing its installation designed for shared buildings quite aggressively. They aren't interested in giving Virgin a leg-up, they are interested in persuading landlords that if their building needs a community antenna, that should be a sky satellite dish rather than a Virgin cable.

Virgin will get Sky's HD channels eventually but all Virgin subs will get access to them at the same time when that time comes. However if your landlord isn't interested in running the extra cables you need to use a PVR, your only alternative is Virgin, because the V+ service still only requires one cable coming into your flat.

kirk1690 · 02-04-2009, 17:21

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Originally Posted by Chris

Hell will freeze over first. Sky is pushing its installation designed for shared buildings quite aggressively. They aren't interested in giving Virgin a leg-up, they are interested in persuading landlords that if their building needs a community antenna, that should be a sky satellite dish rather than a Virgin cable.

Virgin will get Sky's HD channels eventually but all Virgin subs will get access to them at the same time when that time comes. However if your landlord isn't interested in running the extra cables you need to use a PVR, your only alternative is Virgin, because the V+ service still only requires one cable coming into your flat.

I live in a 22 story tower block and there are numerous towers in the area and the council just wouldn't burden tax payers quite rightly so with the cost of this work.

**Chris** · 02-04-2009, 17:25

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Originally Posted by kirk1690

I live in a 22 story tower block and there are numerous towers in the area and the council just wouldn't burden tax payers quite rightly so with the cost of this work.

Attitudes will change in time. Currently only 1 in 7 homes has a PVR, but there was a time when only 1 in 7 homes had a TV and back then they would probably have said that they couldn't burden the taxpayer with the cost of putting in an aerial, or a basic satellite dish, or a basic cable.

kirk1690 · 02-04-2009, 17:36

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Originally Posted by Chris

Attitudes will change in time. Currently only 1 in 7 homes has a PVR, but there was a time when only 1 in 7 homes had a TV and back then they would probably have said that they couldn't burden the taxpayer with the cost of putting in an aerial, or a basic satellite dish, or a basic cable.

very true but am GETTIN AULD and ma health aint too good !!!

Stuart · 02-04-2009, 17:46

Further to my previous reply.

Sky are clearly milking the fact that a lot of channels are HD only in their adverts because they think it will get them extra sales. They will lose the exclusivity if they start offering the channels to Virgin.

Virgin (for their part) will probably want to offer the channels to all their subscribers rather than a subset, because the channels will need to be carried nationally, and may well occupy bandwidth that could be more profitably used by channels available to everyone. As such, they may make it difficult for Sky.

Bearing in mind the number of probable subscribers in hi rise flats and the fact that even where both VM and Sky can offer it, relatively few people have actually taken up HDTV, it may not be worth Sky's while to offer this service.