Tag Archives: BSkyB
Salutary Lesson for BSkyB
Whilst reading an update about Unitymedia, I found this quote regarding the affect of losing top flight football rights on a DTV operator. “Since Sky Deutschland has been the exclusive rights holder again, subscriber numbers have dropped considerably. At the end of March, arenaSAT only had 51,000 subscribers – a year ago it still had [...]
Sky 3D
Now that Sky have announced the launch of their 3D channel in April and touted the super secret Pub shows this weekend, I might be changing my mind a little. It will be a feature of every TV in two years but will be barely used and event driven. Definitely not something that will justify [...]
Digital Britain
OFCOM with Lord Carter has published the Interim report about the vision for some of the country’s critical digital services and communications issues, and it was readily digested by all and sundry. The press have really dissected the report for its facts which you can via your favourite search engine, readily find out. Alternatively can [...]
Deeper Troubles for Orange
Well it definitely seems that Orange has much deeper problems than whether it would launch an IPTV service, and it is not hard to see that the reasons for the full-on suspension of the IPTV service launch was not down to ourely competitiveness issues. It seems that Orange in the UK is on the brink [...]
Customers doing the unexpected?
BSkyB have seemingly suffered from a customer imposed failure, where a certain percentage of boxes are suffering a severe code failure after a new code download. What was the certain percentage? Those customers of a low spec PVR that have undertaken a home disk upgrade. This was low spec as it is one of the [...]
Economic Climate impact and the Cable TV Industry
During the week I went up to London to attend the SCTE Autumn Lecture and the SCTE AGM. This was an interesting and thought provoking day as much for the technology discussed in the lectures, but also for the out of meeting discussions about the current financial situation in the markets. There was a degree [...]