New Freesat service
 

Mike wrote:
: Then prices you are quoting for Freesat are, at best, trade ones. What the
: customer will pay is likely to be higher. The Freesat HD-PVR will never
: be retailed for £149!

: What never ever or just not for a few months?

Not never but probably not for a few months. Freesat PVRs will be a low
volume items to start with so it seems realistic to expect that prices
will start as high as they can tolerate.

New Freesat service
 

Brian McIlwrath wrote:
Adrian wrote:

An FTV/FTA package has always been available from Sky, since the
launch of Sky Digital in October 1998. However it was 299 or perhaps
even 399 Quid back then ?

It was only ?100 for a while a few years back.

It's currently only £75 from a few retailers (such as Argos) - and
includes 3 months "trial" subscription to 4 Sky "Mixes"

It's worth paying that much just to get the dish installed. I'm assuming
they don't rip it out again if you cancel?

(kim)

New Freesat service
 

Brian McIlwrath wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:

: As I said before the government should have forced Sky to make CAM's
: available to all European satellite receivers manufactures not created
: Freesat.

That wasn't the alternative - as, even with a CAM, European receivers just
do *NOT* offer the EPG/interactive/digital text features that the BBC wanted!

What features did the BBC want? It's still secret AIUI, but I really doubt
that there's anything that Service Information, Event Information Tables and
MHEG could not have delivered - except maybe compatibility with the Sky box
system... so is the BBC nobbling free competition in order to restrict choice
to products of a market dominator that they've let in through a mix of BBC
incompetence and government errors? Where have I heard that before? iPlayer!

Fuming gently,
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