Latest Vhannibal Setting E2
04/02/2016
Posts by Prophet
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Latest Vhannibal Setting E1
04/02/2016
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So I have a friend that works in the Sky call centre in Livingston and they just sent me this from their phone
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An update directly from SKY to 'set the record straight'
Source: http://www.sky.com/discoveringmore
We have something for every customer. Drama, documentaries, entertainment, comedy, sports, movies and more.
We have worked really hard for more than a year to get a deal done for our customers with Discovery, so we are disappointed with their misleading claims and aggressive actions. We now feel it’s time to set the record straight. Because despite our differences, we love Discovery too.
We were prepared to pay a fair price for the Discovery and Eurosport channels and invest more in those channels to make them even better for our customers. We have offered hundreds of millions of pounds to Discovery, a $12bn American business, but that wasn’t enough. They asked the Sky Group to pay close to £1bn for their portfolio of channels, many of which are in decline.
Sadly, we have now had to prepare for Discovery to take their channels away from Sky customers, as they have threatened to do. It is Discovery’s choice to do this, not ours. We never left the negotiating table and they haven’t come back to it since they made their threats public this week.
Sky doesn’t boot channels off our platform. If Discovery don’t want their channels to disappear, as their public campaign suggests, they could have made arrangement to stay on Sky, including free to air with advertising funding or with their own subscription, but they’ve chosen not to do so.
Our commitment to our customers is this: We will spend every penny that we were going to pay to Discovery on more and better content that our customers value. This will come from sources around the globe and home grown shows and documentaries from the UK. We will continue to offer customers a huge range of content including hundreds of shows from The History Channel, National Geographic, PBS, Sky Arts and Sky Atlantic, along with more amazing sport on Sky Sports Mix, available to all our customers.
We hope our customers understand that we have been working on their behalf and will always do that. We thank them for their support.
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Latest Vhannibal Setting E2
27/01/2017
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Sky is to offer a complete subscription television package without a satellite dish for the first time.
From 2018, people who cannot have a dish installed will be able to receive Sky over the internet instead.
The company said the move would help it reach a further six million customers across Europe.One analyst said the development was a "logical step", but customers would need to live in an area with fast broadband speeds to benefit.
"I don't think Sky is giving up on other things but they see this as an opportunity," said Toby Syfret, TV analyst at the Enders consultancy.
"There are about two million households in the UK, mostly in dense urban areas, where people can't put up dishes.
"If they can offer the full Sky experience without the need for a dish, that is broadening their offer.
"But there will be questions about which homes can get it. Not everybody has the necessary broadband speed."Sky is also facing competition from new rivals such as BT and TalkTalk, which deliver pay-TV over the internet.
Sky already sells its Now TV streaming service, offering a small selection of television channels and a library of on-demand programmes over the internet.
However, the company told the BBC its new dish-free option was designed to provide a more complete service.Details of which channels will be carried, and whether the service will support ultra-high definition 4K broadcasts have yet to be decided.
The company is currently in a dispute with broadcaster Discovery, which has threatened to remove its 12 channels from Sky on 1 February.
It claims Sky does not pay a "fair price" for its channels - but Sky says Discovery's threat is about "commercial self-interest".
On Wednesday, the pay-TV giant reported a 9% fall in operating profits after paying more for broadcast rights to Premier League football matches. -
February launch for free BoxNation via BT Sport on YouView and Sky
BT Sport subscribers with Sky, BT TV, TalkTalk, or who access BT Sport via the app will gain access to Boxing channel BoxNation from 24th February 2017.
The tie-up between the two broadcasters was first announced last year, but since then further details alongside the launch date have become available. While BT Sport subscribers using BT's and TalkTalk's YouView-based TV services or using Sky will benefit, Virgin Media customers with BT Sport are excluded.
Anyone with the BT Sport Pack will get BoxNation for free from 24th February 2017, although BoxNation's pay-per-view events won't be included, according to BT. HD pack customers will gain free access to BoxNation in high definition. BT Sport Lite Pack customers will need to upgrade to the full BT Sport pack to gain access to BoxNation.
The launch coincides with an evening of boxing including Boy Jones Jnr v Craig Poxton and Jay Harris v Thomas Essomba from Bethanal Green.
As part of the deal between BoxNation and BT Sport, Saturday night Fight Nights will also feature on the BT Sport channels.
As announced on Friday, BT will start charging all BT TV customers for BT Sport from 1st August 2017. This affects those watching in standard definition, as HD and UHD customers already pay a premium for BT Sport in high and ultra high definition formats. BT is increasing the monthly subscription charge for those accessing BT Sport via Sky from the same date. However, BT says the deal with BoxNation means viewers who previously subscribed to both services separately will save £144 a year.
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What is changing?
From 1 February, Discovery Communications’ portfolio of channels are unlikely to be available in Sky TV packages.Which channels does this include?
In the UK and Ireland, this includes Animal Planet, Discovery HD, Discovery History, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Science, Discovery Shed, Discovery Turbo, DMAX, Eurosport1, Eurosport2, Investigation Discovery, Quest and TLC.
Can I still watch now?
Yes, the channels will be available until 31 January. At any point from 1 February, Discovery may remove them from the Sky platform.Can I no longer watch these channels on Sky?
Yes, the channels will be available until 1 February. At any point, from 1 February, Discovery may remove them from the Sky platform.
I regularly watch the Discovery channels. What can I watch on Sky instead?
Sky offers a huge range of unmissable content, from award winning documentaries to thrilling entertainment.
We've an incredible line-up of programming scheduled from partners like Nat Geo, History and CI, as well as a fantastic range of Sky Original content.
Upcoming programmes include: Big Cat Week, Explorer, Wild Strategies and Killing Regan from Nat Geo; Black Sails, Obama Legacy and Hunting Hitler from History; and Portrait Artist of the Year, Tate Walks and Freddie Fries Down Under from Sky Arts/Sky 1.
We also have more than 800 episodes of documentaries available on demand for Variety and Box Sets customers to watch whenever and wherever they want, including Origins, Ross Kemp Extreme World and the David Attenborough Collection.
Source : https://www.sky.com/help/articles/changes-to-sky-channels#
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Looks like this is related to an ongoing financial squabble between the 2 companies, you can read more here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus…nel-fees-blackout-threat/
Discovery, the US media giant behind the TLC and Eurosport channels, has issued an extraordinary public threat to withdraw all its programming from Sky over claims it "refuses to pay a fair price".
The company, which has spent £1bn acquire pan-European rights to the Olympics, said its channels will be switched off on Sky at the end of the month if a deal is not reached.
Discovery's decision to make a public blackout threat comes after months of fraught negotiation that the company said had reached an impasse.
Susanna Dinnage, Discovery's managing director in the UK said: "We believe Sky is using what we consider to be its dominant market position to further its own commercial interest over those of viewers and independent broadcasters. The vitality of independent broadcasters like Discovery and plurality in TV is under threat.”Pay-TV operators across Europe have in recent years focused spending on exclusive, on-demand drama and sports rights they believe motivate households to subscribe. The trend has squeezed budgets for the type of factual programming provided by Discovery, which Sky claims has suffered a 17pc decline in its share of viewing since 2013.
A Discovery source said: "This is about consumer choice. If people just want drama they can get a Netflix subscription."
Sky is seeking to reduce its bills for Discovery channels more than most because it has faced an 83pc increase in the cost of its Premier League rights this season following a record-breaking auction battle with BT.
At the same time, Discovery is seeking to make a return on its Olympics deal. Some of the games will be shown on Eurosport, but it is understood that Sky has argued in negotiations that events that take place every four years do not draw monthly subscribers.
Discovery said the dispute had nothing to do with its Olympics bill. However, it has faced problems cashing in on the rights. It failed to make a deal with public broadcasters in German after they balked at the price.
A Sky spokesman said the company will not meet Discovery's price demands, or its call for a five-year deal, and that the channels will be withdrawn.
He added: "Despite our best efforts to reach a sensible agreement, we, like many other platforms and broadcasters across Europe, have found the price expectations for the Discovery portfolio to be completely unrealistic. Discovery’s portfolio of channels includes many which are linear-only where viewing is falling.
"Sky has a strong track record of understanding the value of the content we acquire on behalf of our customers, and as a result we’ve taken the decision not to renew this contract on the terms offered.
"We have been overpaying Discovery for years and are not going to anymore. We will now move to redeploy the same amount of money into content we know our customers value."
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This is an absolute steal of a price, I would be interested in this myself but no room for such a large beauty
Good luck with the sale
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Latest Vhannibal Setting E2
20/01/2017
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Would be nice to get some clarification on this then, seems to be differing answers from different teams
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Latest Vhannibal Setting E2
13/01/2017
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Look's like it's now hit the national press too
Codehttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gardener-rakes-money-sky-tv-9621328?ICID=FB_mirror_main -
A hi tech fraudster made £120,000 by selling illicit satellite television packages on the internet.
Operating from the bedroom of his Mossend home, Gavin Gray was potentially costing broadcast giant Sky £1.2 million a year with his cheap deals.
Now he faces a jail sentence and losing his ill-gotten gains under a Proceeds of Crime Action. Gray (25), of Asquith Place, Mossend, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court today and admitted charges of fraud and breach of copyright.
The scam ran from January 2010 for more than four years. His home was raided by investigators in July 2014. The court heard Gray, who works as a landscaper, provided his customers with codes which allowed them access to satellite television including Sky Sports.
Callum Forsyth, prosecuting, said the full Sky package costs £57 per month, but through a website Gray was offering rates of just £5 for 30 days and £30 per year. An investigator from the Federation Against Copyright Theft posed as a customer and contacted Gray’s website in May 2014. He was given a password and user name along with instructions on how to log into a server.
Mr Forsyth told the court: “He was able to view content including Sky Sports and made payment through a PayPal account used by the accused.” Mr Forsyth said £44,260 was seized from a safe at Gray’s home. The accused admitted having 1800 customers paying £5 per month and it was found that £120,434 had been paid into his PayPay account over a two-year period. During an internet chat he boasted of potentially costing Sky £208,000 a month in lost business. Defence agent Elspeth Forrest said Gray had “dealt with the matter responsibly with an early guilty plea”. Sheriff Thomas Millar deferred sentence until March and continued bail.
Source
Codehttp://www.motherwelltimes.co.uk/news/crime/fraudster-sold-cheap-tv-deals-1-4338830The Pay Server was HULA1
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A new trailer was released for this and this looks really, really good !
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i read another piece that said they was watching those that stream as well, would plex come to that,
would they know what you was streaming to your outside network
What I am getting is they are focusing on specifically torrents and popcorn time type streaming
For now I don''t think you have anyting to worry about
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I will close this thread now as sorted
