> Tim Cowlishaw wrote: > > Hmm.. It's great that people are actively resisting this, but to > > reiterate a point made earlier on the Open Rights Group list > > concerning the iPlayer petition on pm.gov.uk <http://pm.gov.uk>, is > > this really the best forum for protest? IMO the idea that > the PM (or > > any branch of government) should step in to legislate what > should and > > should not be shown on television is a slightly scary prospect.... > You would think the market would decide. Seeing as Pay DTT > has been one failure after another, I have to wonder why Sky > would really want to get involved in Pay DTT, especially when > it would be incompatible with every DTT receiver out there > (so they'd have to subsidize boxes, something that worked so > well for ON Digital). If it's anything like the "Sky By Wire" > service on Homechoice, it'll be overpriced compared to the > DSAT offerings, so I doubt many Freeviewers will be tempted. > And if they did offer it for a reasonable price, they might > start cannibalizing their DSAT viewers.
Oh, and Sky were prevented once by the OFT from having any part in the terrestrial encyption system, as they were part of the "British Digital Broadcasting" group that became Ondigital. > Anyway, aren't Ofcom the people to complain to about this and > not the online petitions site (which, as the recent road > charging and ID card petitions has shown, doesn't appear to > influence anything anyway)? People did and Ofcom ignored them... http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/paytv/responses/ If anyone can get over 1.8 million people to sign in six months, then the newspapers will have another feeding frenzy. And I recon there are 13.5 million receivers out there, with 7 million homes being 'Freeview only', so plenty of people to sign. (Perhaps that's what Sky wants, millions of people saying how much they LOVE Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Three... ) Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/696 - Release Date: 21/02/2007 15:19 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
