SKY F1 HD Channel, Any Chance? - Page 15

Tim Deegan · 01-12-2011, 21:59

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Originally Posted by gcampbell

It's a sports channel so VM will give it more priority, while fans of good drama are ignored.

There are loads of channels with drama on them, but there will only be one F1 channel.

I'm half expecting Sky to hold it back from VM for a while in order to try and win customers from VM.

HD Boy · 01-12-2011, 22:31

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

I'm half expecting Sky to hold it back from VM for a while in order to try and win customers from VM.

I doubt it going by what i have read. Ofcom would get involved if that happened

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Just to put you in the picture...

VM have already been in talks with Sky over the new F1 channel

Yes they should be carrying it when it starts in March 2012

It will be at no extra cost because it will be included in the sports package

As for the HD version of the channel we are very confident that that this will also be on the VM platform

Once I get any further information I will let you all know, but for now please don't go asking any other questions, because this is as much as I can tell you for now

http://vmhd.blogspot.com/2011/11/sky...ns-emerge.html

Sky Sports F1 is not the same as Sky Atlantic.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35335695-post93.html

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I can see the price of Sky Sports price going up Â£3+ in September for both Sky and Virgin Media.

Mainly because of the Sky price freeze will end and Sky Sports F1.

Tim Deegan · 01-12-2011, 22:36

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Originally Posted by HD Boy

I doubt it going by what i have read. Ofcom would get involved if that happened

I doubt ofcom could or would do anything about it. It's business pure and simple. Sky don't give as good a service as VM, and they are more expensive. So they simply hold channels back from VM so that they have an advantage over them, just as they have done with other channels including Atlantic.

HD Boy · 01-12-2011, 22:52

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

channels including Atlantic.

What has Sky Atlantic got to do with this ?

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Also this

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Ofcom’s remedy covers Sky Sports 1 and 2 as these are the channels that make a material contribution to Sky’s market power. Ofcom recognises that a potential response to the remedy from Sky could be to attempt to undermine it by shifting content onto channels not covered by the remedy. If Sky was to do this to any material extent, Ofcom would review the remedy and would consider extending it to include the relevant channels. This would not require a protracted process, since the substantive issues would be the same as those on which Ofcom has concluded in today’s statement.

http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2010/0...its-in-pay-tv/

Also F1's sponsors need for viewers. So Sky have to make this work.

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Originally Posted by Alan Fry

Now is the time for the BBC to renegotiate the lisence fee, either it should be rasied massively and cover computers as well

100% do not agree. Why should it increase massively ?

You must have lots of money.

Tim Deegan · 02-12-2011, 04:00

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Originally Posted by HD Boy

What has Sky Atlantic got to do with this ?

Because it's yet another channel that sky won't let VM have so that they have an advantage over them.

Alan Fry · 02-12-2011, 11:35

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Originally Posted by denphone

The BBC are starting to look like a third rate provider of sport and l fear in another 6 years they will have even less.

they might as well shut down BBC Sports completly at this rate!

zekeisaszekedoes · 02-12-2011, 14:09

I expect in 6 years the BBC will be worse than ITV is now. Probably not, but selling parts of it off piecemeal seems like a death knell to me.

Alan Fry · 02-12-2011, 14:11

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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes

I expect in 6 years the BBC will be worse than ITV is now. Probably not, but selling parts of it off piecemeal seems like a death knell to me.

Oh No!!!

The only decent channel left will Channel 4 (and associated channels)

zekeisaszekedoes · 02-12-2011, 14:30

Hopefully by then there will be more HD channels and better content overall (i.e. more US shows, there are quite a few good ones running right now that aren't on UK TV regularly) so no-one will mind.

Personally I think they'd do well to cancel Doctor Who to save some money, but I'm in the minority there. Love most sci-fi, hate that one.

muppetman11 · 02-12-2011, 14:47

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

I doubt ofcom could or would do anything about it. It's business pure and simple. Sky don't give as good a service as VM,

In your opinion which you are rightly entitled to however I'm afraid my opinion differs.

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

and they are more expensive.

My package costs me less with Sky.

denphone · 02-12-2011, 15:29

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

In your opinion which you are rightly entitled to however I'm afraid my opinion differs.

Yes master.

Tim Deegan · 02-12-2011, 15:39

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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes

Hopefully by then there will be more HD channels and better content overall (i.e. more US shows, there are quite a few good ones running right now that aren't on UK TV regularly) so no-one will mind.

Personally I think they'd do well to cancel Doctor Who to save some money, but I'm in the minority there. Love most sci-fi, hate that one.

The two statements highlighted are a contradiction.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

In your opinion which you are rightly entitled to however I'm afraid my opinion differs.

I'm not talking about customer service, because VM are terrible at that.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

My package costs me less with Sky.

Well I'm saving Â£70 per month by moving the whole lot to VM

muppetman11 · 02-12-2011, 15:56

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

I'm not talking about customer service, because VM are terrible at that.

I wasn't talking about customer service , I was meaning the service as a whole. Whats good for one won't always be for another , VM has a fine offering on that I agree.

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

Well I'm saving Â£70 per month by moving the whole lot to

Well the decision was an easy one for you then , But my package costs me less than with VM , Sky is the cheaper option for some for others it's VM.

denphone · 02-12-2011, 16:01

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Well the decision was an easy one for you then , But my package costs me less than with VM , Sky is the cheaper option for some for others it's VM.

Exactly.

Tim Deegan · 02-12-2011, 16:21

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

I wasn't talking about customer service , I was meaning the service as a whole. Whats good for one won't always be for another , VM has a fine offering on that I agree.

Well I haven't had to call Sky CS very often. And I have just got off the phone from complaining about VM CS. But as I have said many times before, VM is brilliant when it is working (which it does most of the time), but when it doesn't you have a nightmare with CS.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Well the decision was an easy one for you then , But my package costs me less than with VM , Sky is the cheaper option for some for others it's VM.

Obviously I don't know your exact package, but in my experience, and from other people I have spoken to, VM are usually far cheaper. And when they aren't you can usually call them and make a few tweaks to your package, and often get a big reduction.