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muppetman11 · 13-01-2012, 12:34

Hollywood blasts U.K. competition watchdog: Studios defend their contracts with BSkyB

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...,7819286.story

denphone · 13-01-2012, 13:14

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Hollywood blasts U.K. competition watchdog: Studios defend their contracts with BSkyB

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...,7819286.story

Thats typical and one must hope this cosy relationship is broken up sooner rather then later.

muppetman11 · 13-01-2012, 15:25

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Perhaps if we has a poll l think you would find that the vast majority of people would vote for the superiority of Tivo rather then trhe old hat and tired Sky box.

Superiority Den is not a box were the customer has to check the EPG for data errors and report them
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...te/td-p/963263

denphone · 13-01-2012, 15:40

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Superiority Den is not a box were the customer has to check the EPG for data errors and report them
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...te/td-p/963263

Better to have a system then to have none.

Doz007 · 13-01-2012, 20:02

When you download a show from Anytime+ is it saved to the Anytime partition or the main Planner partition?

muppetman11 · 13-01-2012, 20:17

The main planner , you can leave it there and delete it when you've watched it. During the early hours each day Sky download Anytime content into the showcase which plays instantly and the majority is HD , see image below which contains the Sky Prem HD movies.

Doz007 · 13-01-2012, 20:44

Thanks for that MM and especially for taking the time to take a pic as well. Very much appreciated.

Are the films downloaded during the early hours done so via Sky BB?

I'm still puzzled when the 1tb box will utilise it's 500gb Anytime partition though, there's enough space for 120hrs of HD content after all.

muppetman11 · 13-01-2012, 20:48

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Thanks for that MM and especially for taking the time to take a pic as well. Very much appreciated.

Are the films downloaded during the early hours done so via Sky BB?

I'm still puzzled when the 1tb box will utilise it's 500gb Anytime partition though, there's enough space for 120hrs of HD content after all.

Right I'll try and explain this as easy as I can the 1TB Sky+HD box is actually 1.5TB with 1TB for personal recording and 400gb reserved for Anytime , the 1TB personal space is enough for 240hrs HD as Sky use Mpeg 4. You get Anytime content downloaded in the eary hours via the satellite not your BB that is only used for Anytime+ content.
http://www.techradar.com/news/televi...b-drive-671448

13-01-2012, 22:35

Really hope Sky Movies doesn't get crippled, its a great service and having a brand new movie every friday is one of the best features of it.

muppetman11 · 13-01-2012, 23:01

MTV World Stage comes to Sky 3D

http://www.sky.com/mysky/latestnews/...-3d/index.html

New to cable · 14-01-2012, 00:19

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Really hope Sky Movies doesn't get crippled, its a great service and having a brand new movie every friday is one of the best features of it.

I really hope Sky movies is not crippled but unfortunately I fear it will be.

For some reason in this country we seem to want to destroy everything good. Sky is a good service! There upto 20Mb broadband is truly unlimited and unmanaged meaning even if you only actually hit 6mb you could download more than someone on Virgins 10 or 20mb services over a 24 hour period.

This is because the Virgin users would hit traffic management and be crippled and usually the management cripple normal use to around 5mb but almost stops peer2peer completely.

At some point the 12 million plus Sky customers need to stand up and tell Virginmedia and the other providers to eff off. If Virignmedia ran a movie channel it would be over subscribed and under invested in just like the broadband network.

Meaning next weeks premier would be Starwars, then the following weeks would be Honey I shrunk the kids.. The weeks after would have Back to the future.

Sky is BIG Sky is a success Sky have invested BILLIONS and now make a lot of money.

14-01-2012, 01:29

Why do they need to tell other providers to eff off?

I understand that they want their platform to have a selling point over rivals but they'd rather be making money from Sky Movies customers on Virgin than have Netflix supply them with movies.

muppetman11 · 14-01-2012, 09:29

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Why do they need to tell other providers to eff off?

I understand that they want their platform to have a selling point over rivals but they'd rather be making money from Sky Movies customers on Virgin than have Netflix supply them with movies.

I agree they don't , customers from BT Vision , VM , Smallworld are an essential part of Sky's business especially when cheaper alternatives are starting to surface.

14-01-2012, 10:13

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I agree they don't , customers from BT Vision , VM , Smallworld are an essential part of Sky's business especially when cheaper alternatives are starting to surface.

I think the most essential part of skys biusiness is sky sports (retailing to other pay tv providers) rather then movies,its now becoming the only place to watch live sporting action,people i know have sports but not movies as they say the same movies come around week after week,my mate had sky movies half price for three months and filled his hard drive up and cancelled them.

With movies also there are many more outlets myself if i am interested in a movie i usually buy it from amazon on dvd to keep.

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

Why do they need to tell other providers to eff off?

I understand that they want their platform to have a selling point over rivals but they'd rather be making money from Sky Movies customers on Virgin than have Netflix supply them with movies.

These day i think sky keep a bit back for themselves but are more content to sell to rivals now that OFCOM has involved itself once in the pay tv review and they know they are being carefully watched.

Coupled with the fact its good buisiness for pay tv rivals to work together and make some money then let freeview/freesat mop up.

muppetman11 · 14-01-2012, 11:15

I would agree Richard to a certain extent I do believe the pay TV companies need to work together and make their product standout on all platforms.

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

Really hope Sky Movies doesn't get crippled, its a great service and having a brand new movie every friday is one of the best features of it.

I would agree with that it generally gives you something to watch at the weekend plus for us owning a 3DTV and being Sky World subscribers we get access to movies in 3D.