Sky News gets in on the Hacking Scandal

Sky News gets in on the Hacking Scandal

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davepoth

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29,395 posts

198 months

Friday 6th April 2012
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hornet said:
I can't say I enjoy Sky's sports coverage, as they insist on padding everything out with endless punditry and analysis. Very much style over content a lot of the time. Plus of course the presentation style is ludicrously overblown...

"SKY MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL! EXCITING PREMIER LEAGUE ACTION FEATURING...um, Wigan and Bolton".

Their F1 ads are doing it as well, especially on Spotify. It's not "F1 on Sky", it's "F1 ON SKY!".
How would you know what to think otherwise?

DJRC

23,563 posts

235 months

Sunday 8th April 2012
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davepoth said:
DJRC said:
Not really, its in technical innovation aswell.

Sport coverage on TV is in a different league now to back in the day. Sky+/tivi like stuff and multiroom would be unheard of without Sky in the UK and Europe. There was *no* incentive to innovate before Sky.
That makes no sense at all. How can you say that PVRs wouldn't have been introduced around the same time by another satellite company (as they were across the world)?

Multiroom is more of a billing innovation than anything else. And as for any other innovation as regards image and sound quality, such as high definition, you need to look to the BBC and their Japanese counterpart NHK rather than Sky.

What they have done is use existing technical innovations to their financial advantage. There's no shame in that (done properly), but they certainly have not been responsible for very much, if any, technical innovation of their own.
Because the Uk was and has been and still is a generation ahead of the US in TV tech and when the tv tech big bang kicked off, it was ahead of Japan and the Far East aswell. + ousted TiVo as it is and was a better system. Ive tried em both. They brought the technical innovation to the market and made it work for us.

Sorry, but I fully regard Sky as the best thing to happen to TV in the last 40yrs.

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

261 months

Sunday 8th April 2012
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DJRC said:
Because the Uk was and has been and still is a generation ahead of the US in TV tech and when the tv tech big bang kicked off, it was ahead of Japan and the Far East aswell. + ousted TiVo as it is and was a better system. Ive tried em both. They brought the technical innovation to the market and made it work for us.

Sorry, but I fully regard Sky as the best thing to happen to TV in the last 40yrs.
Do you work or have any other connection with them?

I ask because all the SKY viewers I've talked to do say two things, the majority of the programming is shyte and they charge too much for it hehe

davepoth

Original Poster:

29,395 posts

198 months

Sunday 8th April 2012
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DJRC said:
Because the Uk was and has been and still is a generation ahead of the US in TV tech and when the tv tech big bang kicked off, it was ahead of Japan and the Far East aswell. + ousted TiVo as it is and was a better system. Ive tried em both. They brought the technical innovation to the market and made it work for us.

Sorry, but I fully regard Sky as the best thing to happen to TV in the last 40yrs.
http://support.tivo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/318

So TiVo was actually available officially through Sky, until they copied the idea and started pushing them as a loss leader for subscription service revenue. Since Sky controlled the EPG for both systems it would have been trivial for them to make TiVo as good as Sky+, but why would they want to do that?

As I said, not so great at innovation, but very good at making money.