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On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 13:29:25 +0100, the dog from that film you saw
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On 28/07/2013 10:08, Adrian C wrote:
On 27/07/2013 21:19, Rick wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology...........

£10 box that allows murdoch into your broadband, no thanks...



he doesn't own sky.
a company he owns a bit of owns a bit of it - that's all.

He didn't actually say that Murdoch owned it, so your 'correction' was
pointless.
Murdoch does however control it via the various company Boards.

He doesn't.

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On Saturday, 27 July 2013 21:19:34 UTC+1, Rick wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10203237/Now-TV-box-iPlayer-plus-Sky-Sports-and-Movies-without-subscription.html

It's almost identical to the Roku box:

http://www.roku.com/uk#2

I have the LT version, and it is very good. I use it for netflix mostly. You can get the Sky app on it too. I'm sure it's the same thing, really. Badge engineering.

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In article ,
Rick writes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...203237/Now-TV-
box-iPlayer-plus-Sky-Sports-and-Movies-without-subscription.html

But there's some small print. According to the article: "The
box will
offer access to Sky Sports on a £9.99 day-by-day basis for the
Ashes,
the Premier League, F1, and the US Open. It will also come
with a 30-day
free trial of Sky Movies, and BBC iPlayer will be built-in. "

So as well as the cost of the box, if you want to watch a lot
of sport
it will work out pretty expensive. And no doubt the same will
be true of
movies once the 30-day free trial is over.

This is just a(n) (optional) contract for the standard Sky
"now" package. No-one who wants a long term sport contract is
going to use this, they're gonna get a dish. Sky aren't
expecting anybody will, so I think the article suggesting that
the target market for this is the sports offering is just
silly.

It would be good if Sky offered the sports package on a monthly
PAYG tariff but obviously they don't want to to do that as it
would decimate the number of customers who sign up for their
full package.

The standard price for the movie package is 15 pounds per
month. Perhaps they don't see any cannibalisation here.

As a way of making your TV "smart" this is a bargain. You get
all of the "catch up" offering direct to your TV for a fraction
of the price that the other telcos charge, without having to go
out and buy a new TV.

tim





Well, almost. The standard Roku LT box (about £40 from Expensive
World) only comes with iPlayer of the UK catchups; an article I
have seen suggests that the Sky version will also have Demand 5
but neither has 4OD.

From a personal standpoint I would find it useful that it has
EuroNews on it - if you want an unbiased view of what is
happening around the world and particularly in Europe (much of
which is never reported in this country) it takes some beating.
Except that they put an invite on screen to download their app so
you can watch it just as easily for 'free' on your mobile or PC.


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"Woody" wrote in message
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"tim....." wrote in message
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"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article ,
Rick writes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...203237/Now-TV-
box-iPlayer-plus-Sky-Sports-and-Movies-without-subscription.html

But there's some small print. According to the article: "The box will
offer access to Sky Sports on a £9.99 day-by-day basis for the Ashes,
the Premier League, F1, and the US Open. It will also come with a 30-day
free trial of Sky Movies, and BBC iPlayer will be built-in. "

So as well as the cost of the box, if you want to watch a lot of sport
it will work out pretty expensive. And no doubt the same will be true of
movies once the 30-day free trial is over.

This is just a(n) (optional) contract for the standard Sky "now" package.
No-one who wants a long term sport contract is going to use this, they're
gonna get a dish. Sky aren't expecting anybody will, so I think the
article suggesting that the target market for this is the sports offering
is just silly.

It would be good if Sky offered the sports package on a monthly PAYG
tariff but obviously they don't want to to do that as it would decimate
the number of customers who sign up for their full package.

The standard price for the movie package is 15 pounds per month. Perhaps
they don't see any cannibalisation here.

As a way of making your TV "smart" this is a bargain. You get all of the
"catch up" offering direct to your TV for a fraction of the price that
the other telcos charge, without having to go out and buy a new TV.

tim





Well, almost. The standard Roku LT box (about £40 from Expensive World)
only comes with iPlayer of the UK catchups; an article I have seen
suggests that the Sky version will also have Demand 5 but neither has 4OD.

Really?

That is just silly (for a generic box)

All it is in an internet "box" that connects to the appropriate web page.
There's no technical reason why they can't connect to this service except
for the need to put it on their menu.

And (to compete with YiouView boxes) the punter wants you to put all
available services on your box

From a personal standpoint I would find it useful that it has EuroNews on
it - if you want an unbiased view of what is happening around the world
and particularly in Europe (much of which is never reported in this
country) it takes some beating. Except that they put an invite on screen
to download their app so you can watch it just as easily for 'free' on
your mobile or PC.

You can watch it from your PC without downloading an App!

tim

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Martin wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:52:24 +0100, "Woody"
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From a personal standpoint I would find it useful that it has
EuroNews on it - if you want an unbiased view of what is
happening around the world and particularly in Europe (much of
which is never reported in this country) it takes some beating.
Except that they put an invite on screen to download their app so
you can watch it just as easily for 'free' on your mobile or PC.

Euronews is strongly pro-EU biased.

Is it not financed by an EU grant ISTR ?

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On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:52:24 +0100, "Woody"
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From a personal standpoint I would find it useful that it has
EuroNews on it - if you want an unbiased view of what is
happening around the world and particularly in Europe (much of
which is never reported in this country) it takes some beating.
Except that they put an invite on screen to download their app so
you can watch it just as easily for 'free' on your mobile or PC.

Euronews is strongly pro-EU biased.

Really - isn't the name a clue?

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"Martin" wrote in message
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:52:24 +0100, "Woody"

wrote:


From a personal standpoint I would find it useful that it has
EuroNews on it - if you want an unbiased view of what is
happening around the world and particularly in Europe (much
of
which is never reported in this country) it takes some
beating.
Except that they put an invite on screen to download their app
so
you can watch it just as easily for 'free' on your mobile or
PC.

Euronews is strongly pro-EU biased.

Really - isn't the name a clue?




Agreed there may be a pro-EU stance but that was not what I was
saying. They generally are not politically baised left, right or
any other direction, and they report relevant events that are
never reported here. For example there was a rail crash near Gent
in Belgium in the early hours of a Saturday morning in May. A
couple of hundred people suffered the effects of fumes and well
over a thousand had to be evactuated from their homes, some for
several weeks. It was extensively covered on Euronews but the
first (and only mention) that I saw was a short item in the BBC
lunchtime news on Sunday. I knew about it because it happened
only a couple of Km from the farmhouse home of a friend and we
had a mail from her early on the Saturday morning.


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