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12-03-2012, 20:43
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
Sounds like a good deal all around. If Sky do manage to get 4&5 OD content on Anytime+ they would be the final pieces to Sky's On Demand puzzle in my opinion. 
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14-03-2012, 10:13
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...tflix-lovefilm
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BSkyB's battle to retain its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV has been given a potential boost, after the Competition Commission announced it will broaden its investigation to measure the impact of Netflix and LoveFilm.
Last summer the competition regulator published a provisional decision that BSkyB's contracts with the six major Hollywood studios – Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and Universal Studios – were anti-competitive and needed to be weakened to allow rivals to flourish.
On Wednesday the long-running investigation, which published a revised deadline of July for delivering its final report, said that it needed to extend the consultation to take into account changes in the movie market.
The Competition Commission admitted it needed to assess "potentially relevant" developments, in particular the arrival of US giant Netflix which launched in the UK and Ireland in January.
The commission also pointed to the need to assess LoveFilm, which is owned by internet retailer Amazon and has extended its rental-by-post model to offer streaming movies to customers.
BSkyB recently announced that it intends to launch its own internet service, which will include Sky Movies, that will stand alone from its TV channel subscription offering
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Interesting development.
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14-03-2012, 11:07
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More promising from Sky's point of view.
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14-03-2012, 11:08
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More promising from Sky's point of view.
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Yes it does seem like that MM.
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14-03-2012, 19:10
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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whats this mean to us veiwers?
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14-03-2012, 19:22
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whats this mean to us veiwers?
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Basically the competition commission will now take Netflix and Lovefilms studio deals into consideration when looking into Sky's dominance of the movie market.
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14-03-2012, 19:23
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Basically the competition commission will now take Netflix and Lovefilms studio deals into consideration when looking into Sky's dominance of the movie market.
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Does that mean Skys Movie stake will get reduced?
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14-03-2012, 19:26
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Does that mean Skys Movie stake will get reduced?
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l somehow doubt it.
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14-03-2012, 19:29
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Does that mean Skys Movie stake will get reduced?
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As the article states its a possible boost for Sky as Netflix and Lovefilm have signed quite a few deals with various studios which would point to there being competition in the market , it depends how dominant the CC feel Sky are I suppose.
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14-03-2012, 22:22
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As the article states its a possible boost for Sky as Netflix and Lovefilm have signed quite a few deals with various studios which would point to there being competition in the market , it depends how dominant the CC feel Sky are I suppose.
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My thought from the start was that CC didn't need to start this as big players have been hovering around this markets for a while now and it will change over the next couple of years.
This just shows how out of touch and irrelevant the CC are.
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14-03-2012, 22:56
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
Just had my first experience of the Dynamic EPG in action during champions league football.
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14-03-2012, 23:03
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Just had my first experience of the Dynamic EPG in action during champions league football. |
Not bad for a dinosaur of a box 
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14-03-2012, 23:05
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Not bad for a dinosaur of a box |
Perhaps When you 900 years old you will feel like a dinosaur. 
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15-03-2012, 07:30
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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My thought from the start was that CC didn't need to start this as big players have been hovering around this markets for a while now and it will change over the next couple of years.
This just shows how out of touch and irrelevant the CC are.
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Not sure i agree with that as far as i know Sky have and will continue to have the "first run rights" to all the Hollywood blockbusters,Netflix and Lovefilm are unlikely to get their hands on those,so i do not see the CC review as being irrelevant at all.
Last time i looked at the Netfilix website i thought their selection of films quite old and nothing much new on there,not sure about Lovefilm though.
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15-03-2012, 07:31
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This just shows how out of touch and irrelevant the CC are.
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Really Lex. 
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