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British Sky Broadcasting will this week unveil plans for a new service allowing customers to download movies and sports coverage over the internet.
The Sky service will be available to subscribers to its three top-tier packages: Sky World, Sky Sports World and Sky Movies World. Sports coverage will consist of highlights, interviews and news, but not whole games or matches. The movie service will offer a mix of 200 new and old films from the Sky Movies channels.
Sky World subscribers will get sports coverage and movies, while the other top-tier subscribers will get the video-on-demand service relevant to their package.
The subscribers will need a computer with a broadband connection, which Sky is not planning to offer.
http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/06/19/cnsky19.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2005/06/19/ixfrontcity.html
The Sky service will be available to subscribers to its three top-tier packages: Sky World, Sky Sports World and Sky Movies World. Sports coverage will consist of highlights, interviews and news, but not whole games or matches. The movie service will offer a mix of 200 new and old films from the Sky Movies channels.
Sky World subscribers will get sports coverage and movies, while the other top-tier subscribers will get the video-on-demand service relevant to their package.
The subscribers will need a computer with a broadband connection, which Sky is not planning to offer.
http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/06/19/cnsky19.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2005/06/19/ixfrontcity.html
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Or is it already included in the current ones?
Except BBC content cable VOD charges extra for viewers to access content on top of a monthly pay-tv subscription to cable tv.
Press release will reveal the details as mentioned in the article.
Say Sky got together with BT. Now - that would provide an interesting situation in, say, 5 years time.
Roger
Homechoice currently has 1000 movies available anytime (on demand) at the click of a button.
It boasts an impressing channel listing as well:
http://www.homechoice.co.uk/tv/channel_listings.html
I think that is very much on the cards with BT having the infrastructure and SKY providing premium content. BT have somehow managed to delay LLU for so long that SKY haven't been left behind by xDSL distribution and cable companies VOD.
Difficult to believe...probably, as has been said, an ill-informed journalist putting 2 and 2 together to get 7.
Downloading movies etc to the Sky Digibox would indeed be feasible - if the broadband port (capability installed, but blanked off...) was enabled. But then, the broadband capability would be open to others to download, and overnight the whole basis of Sky Box Office etc would be in jeopardy. But downloading movies via the 56Kb diallup capability is just not practicable.
It will be to PC via Broadband. Although the 160 box does have some unused USB's.
You might be interested in this item from America. Rupert intends to download films to people boxes over night in the US. It also suggests he will give boxes away free to do it.
Roger