Extremely heavy......What’s Sky Glass like in terms of a TV?
They held a public consultation last year on the future of their service, the focus was very much on a move towards IP based services rather than satellite, but they haven't indicated they'll be switching off any time soon, but it will be interesting to see if it will be in SES's interests to replace the current Astra satellite carrying those channels when it reaches end of life towards the end of this decade given Sky have been a significant source of income.No sign of Freesat going away anytime soon (if ever).
Is this why I haven't been able to watch the apprentice!!I'm not with Sky, but I think with Sky Glass streaming you are limited in access to recording of some UK programmes especially BBC. You have limited iPlayer access but may not be able to record programmes where the Irish rights have been assigned.
It will be interesting to hear what comes of the Ofcom consultation, but it's interesting to note they mention that DTT population coverage is at 99% Vs 98% for Freesat, so that might suggest they'd be in favour of limiting the funding for Freesat. It also mentons there are global discussions underway that could see reduced spectrum dedicated to DTT purposes as the demand for mobile comms grows.We're a bit snookered here in Ireland when compared to the UK to view 'free UK channels' if Freesat eventually does disappear.
Regional licensing is the main blocker. We're at a point where most of the major content producers are running their own paid streaming services and so are very restrictive as to the licensing of their content. So long as there is more money to be made by restricting their content to paid streamers, they won't allow it to go free-to-air.Surely it would increase their global reach.
If there was enough money to be made through advertising alone, they'd jump at it and save the millions they are pumping into setting up their streaming platforms.What about advertising ?
Surely with a wider audience, it would increase revenues. Ok, not all ads would be applicable to people overseas, but a lot would.
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