OT? Freeview + DVD monthly subscription better than Sky or TUTV
 

This is kind off topic but kind of not.

If you want Sport then obviously you go for a Sky subscription, and
you end up paying over £40 a month for the priviledge. Paying for Sky
sports channels either on satellite or cable is your only option.

However, if you can make do with the sport avaialable on Freeview then
rather than spending money on a Sky subscription or on TUTV, surely
for most people it is better value to go for one of these
subscriptions where you receive DVDs through the post.

For 14.99 you can have 3 DVD's out at a time, and unlike Sky or TUTV
you can choose what you want to watch from a bank of thousands, and
presumably the more people who subscribe to these and the longer they
go on the more there will be. For most people (other than for sport)
doing this will get them far better programming than you would get
from Sky (TUTV is not even worth mentioning). Throw that alongside
what is on Freeview and you have a far better package.

The question I want to know is why? Every DVD they send out must cost
at least 50p in return postage, so if you rented 15 DVDs in a month
that would be £7.50. So you would think with paying all that for
"transmission" you would not get that much on rights. Obviously
electronic VOD would be better but where that is available it tends to
be far more expensive.

How come DVD renting firms can offer such good deals and neither Sky
nor TUTV can?