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Old 13-04-2015, 18:53   #1561
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Google the address and send them a letter explaining your concerns.
And you expect them to listen MM?.
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I think the smillie was a bit of a give away Den.......
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I think the smillie was a bit of a give away Den.......
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Old 13-04-2015, 19:16   #1564
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The only time they listen is when it's money doing the talking.


And the Australian article asserts that they charge Foxtel so much money, that it covers the cost of lost revenue from pirated episodes.

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Seemingly HBO crunched the numbers and decided the extra money it could squeeze out of Foxtel would more than compensate for the paying customers who turned to piracy rather than embrace Australia's pay TV giant.
I guess that's why the head of HBO can brag about GOT being the most pirated TV show; he's made up the lost revenue from pirating by overcharging Foxtel, and, by extension, Sky.
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I bet HBO are really happy as people have already watched the first 4 episodes of Game of Thrones Series 5.
Leaked onto the net yesterday.
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Apple Reportedly Halves Cut On Subscriptions From Apple TV

http://feedly.com/i/subscription/fee....com/ubergizmo
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Google the address and send them a letter explaining your concerns.
I would be interested MM, to know whether you support the Sky/HBO excusive deal?

You appear to pretty much always post on the side of corporate profits as opposed to a fairer, wider access perspective.

Is maximising profits, in your view, the paramount and only consideration, these media companies should take into account?
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What else can you expect from a companies who for many years kept mostly all the sports channels to itself until Ofcom intervened and in the last few years has increasingly signed exclusive much have content whether it be the deal with HBO which is mainly on its exclusive Sky Atlantic channel through to its exclusive ITV Encore deal and its huge boxed sets content which it has now and the only way you can see it generally is through their own platform unless you get Now TV and the quality of that is a lot to be desired.
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I would be interested MM, to know whether you support the Sky/HBO excusive deal?

You appear to pretty much always post on the side of corporate profits as opposed to a fairer, wider access perspective.

Is maximising profits, in your view, the paramount and only consideration, these media companies should take into account?
Your wrong in your assumptions I don't agree with many things in the pay TV industry , sadly as an individual there's very little I can do to change things.

I'm very much against the forthcoming Sky price increases and have already decided I'll leave call it my stance against above inflation increases. Sadly it will make little to no difference as many will just complain then do nothing and continue paying the huge amounts.

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What else can you expect from a companies who for many years kept mostly all the sports channels to itself until Ofcom intervened and in the last few years has increasingly signed exclusive much have content whether it be the deal with HBO which is mainly on its exclusive Sky Atlantic channel through to its exclusive ITV Encore deal and its huge boxed sets content which it has now and the only way you can see it generally is through their own platform unless you get Now TV and the quality of that is a lot to be desired.
However competition is the strongest its ever been.
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Your wrong in your assumptions I don't agree with many things in the pay TV industry , sadly as an individual there's very little I can do to change things.

I'm very much against the forthcoming Sky price increases and have already decided I'll leave call it my stance against above inflation increases. Sadly it will make little to no difference as many will just complain then do nothing and continue paying the huge amounts.

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However competition is the strongest its ever been.
And prices as you say are dearer then they have been despite zero inflation sadly.
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Old 14-04-2015, 11:19   #1571
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I shouldn't have to tell you the answer to that.......simple don't pay it.
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I shouldn't have to tell you the answer to that.......simple don't pay it.
Well when the contract comes to a end there are some decisions to make that's for sure.
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However competition is the strongest its ever been.
Ah, but it's not true competition though, is it? After all this time, we can still only get HBO by subscription through Sky.

That's more like a UK monopoly over content. Strange that none of the political parties are campaigning on this as one of the issues that consumers would welcome some legislation on.

Still, I suppose it's more eye catching to bang on about immigration, zero hours contracts and the powers of the trade unions!

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I shouldn't have to tell you the answer to that.......simple don't pay it.
The fault with that argument is that if you don't pay, you won't get to see the content you love!

A bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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What else can you expect from a companies who for many years kept mostly all the sports channels to itself until Ofcom intervened and in the last few years has increasingly signed exclusive much have content whether it be the deal with HBO which is mainly on its exclusive Sky Atlantic channel through to its exclusive ITV Encore deal and its huge boxed sets content which it has now and the only way you can see it generally is through their own platform unless you get Now TV and the quality of that is a lot to be desired.
Blimey, Den, did you actually draw breath when you wrote that?

Calm down, dear!
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Write to your politician then instead of banging on about it here every day.
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Write to your politician then instead of banging on about it here every day.
Come, come, muppetman, we all know the politicians don't listen!
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