Tag Archives: Sky+
Componentised TV Services
A little under a month ago I started (but didn’t finish) a blog post about how the launch of Netflix in the UK (and the ready availability already of Lovefilm) created a special situation for the UK, caused by the quality of the Freeview/FreeSat platform. This situation was that it was perfectly possible to hand [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
DVR Success in the UK
The recent Ofcom report which stated that UK viewers are, as a proportion, more likely to own a DVR/PVR, was really promising, showing that 30% of viewers have one, as reported by InformITV and others. However the numbers have been questioned by InformITV based on a quick count of the numbers across each platform, estimating [...]