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The End Of The Satellite Dish
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 Lyons550  Shirley 25 Jan 18 12.36pm |
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It comes as no surprsie that Sky are getting rid of the dish, thanks to the work they did in developing NOWTV and then bringing it through with the Sky Q setup. Blimey most of us have been proving the point for them by way of 'streaming' stuff for years now! About bloody time!
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 25 Jan 18 12.45pm |
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Originally posted by Lyons550
It comes as no surprsie that Sky are getting rid of the dish, thanks to the work they did in developing NOWTV and then bringing it through with the Sky Q setup. Blimey most of us have been proving the point for them by way of 'streaming' stuff for years now! About bloody time! Although the aim, I don't think they're getting rid of the dish just yet but all channels will be available online to everyone and without a dish.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 25 Jan 18 1.02pm |
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I live in a block of flats we are not allowed a satellite dish so this is good news as it expands choice. I have BT TV through the internet and run it around the house using broadband extenders so no wires. I think in the near future you will not even use a landline. I expect that mobile communication is progressing to the point it will eliminate it.
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 Hrolf The Ganger 25 Jan 18 1.14pm |
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This might be old news to many but the pictures you get from Sky appear of a lower grade than what you get via a firestick or Smart TV for example. The price you pay for Sky is well over the top so any improvement is welcome. The trouble is that when you wish to upgrade, they want to charge you. Sky's days might be numbered in our house.
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| Stirlingsays 25 Jan 18 1.41pm |
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Getting charged for the phone line and also getting charged for the use of fibre optic Internet has always struck me as a huge con. Edited by Stirlingsays (25 Jan 2018 1.41pm)
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| Stuk Top half 25 Jan 18 1.47pm |
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All the on demand stuff comes via your broadband already. Broadband and phones lines have long needed to be separated. Land lines would've been nigh on obsolete for a decade if they'd done this before now.
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Sheks Crows Eye  Virginia 25 Jan 18 2.06pm |
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Nothing gets my goat more than seeing and off-set fed dish oriented towards the sky.
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| Hrolf The Ganger 25 Jan 18 8.59pm |
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Don't get me started on having to pay for old films from the Sky library. A disgrace.
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| Lyons550 Shirley 25 Jan 18 9.03pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
This might be old news to many but the pictures you get from Sky appear of a lower grade than what you get via a firestick or Smart TV for example. The price you pay for Sky is well over the top so any improvement is welcome. The trouble is that when you wish to upgrade, they want to charge you. Sky's days might be numbered in our house. My boy was a Sky engineer for a while at the time HD came in and I can confirm that they downgraded the normal signal to make HD look better
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chateauferret  25 Jan 18 9.47pm |
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I've been using Sky Go to watch football and other stuff and it's quite s***e. Picture keeps degrading, app keeps crashing, half the time when you try to watch something it tells you to use your Sky box (which entirely defeats the object) oh and some stuff is in the wrong aspect ratio and you can't change it. Edited by chateauferret (25 Jan 2018 9.47pm)
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| martin2412 Living The Dream 26 Jan 18 1.42pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Don't get me started on having to pay for old films from the Sky library. A disgrace. What gets my goat is paying the BBC licence fee for their programmes, then paying Sky for repeating them time and time again. Only Fools and Horses has been flogged to death (excuse the double pun).
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| kenners46 sydenham village 26 Jan 18 1.57pm |
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Does Sky Q not need a satellite dish then ?
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