Adverts on Sky

"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:39:33 +0000 (UTC), (Brian
Mc) wrote:

Roderick Stewart wrote:
: Indeed. Not only do you have to pay for the service, and watch adverts,
but
: also pay someone else for a licence to be allowed to do so. This is why
I've
: never had any kind of subscription TV service and probably never will.
One
: payment is enough.

The licence fee is purely a "UK thing" of course!

The payment to each channel channel in the Sky/Virgin "basic tier" is
~pence/month/customer. To run an "advert free" channel on this sum just
isn't possible!

In the US people who want advert-free programming have to pay a LOT extra
for
the like of HBO or Showtime.

It would be interesting to find out how much people are willing to pay
for an advert-free service. For the existing channels I would pay
£2.50 per channel per week for an alternative TV service that had no
adverts or DOGs. My current viewing would work out at about £300 a
year.

Steve
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Neural Planner Software Ltd www.NPSL1.com

Neural network applications, help and support.



Conveniently enough, my ISP is about £30 per month and that does give me DOG
**** free advert free TV programmes... I am also the Director General, Chief
Scheduler, Censor, Editor and Controller of my own channel.

Light of Aria wrote:
: Conveniently enough, my ISP is about £30 per month and that does give me DOG
: **** free advert free TV programmes...

Only by using theft and piracy!

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (Brian Mc)
saying something like:

Light of Aria wrote:
: Conveniently enough, my ISP is about £30 per month and that does give me DOG
: **** free advert free TV programmes...

Only by using theft and piracy!

Oh, enough of the moral high hores, already.
My torrent viewing is of series which will not be shown here and series
which are shown here, but I've missed some of. I feel perfectly
justified in that.
I don't rip or download movies, games, software, etc.

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (Brian Mc)
saying something like:

Light of Aria wrote:
: Conveniently enough, my ISP is about £30 per month and that does give me
DOG
: **** free advert free TV programmes...

Only by using theft and piracy!

Oh, enough of the moral high hores, already.
My torrent viewing is of series which will not be shown here and series
which are shown here, but I've missed some of. I feel perfectly
justified in that.
I don't rip or download movies, games, software, etc.



I can assure everyone that "no theft" is involved in using P2P services. It
is an entirely creative process that does not deny "an owner" anything he
does not already have.

Even the British Government at one time licensed it's own Royal Navy
officers to engage in piracy.

If someone displayed TV shows without ****ing about with the content, then
innovative P2P content makers would not need to develop this "market" in the
first place.