All posts by Richard
Below are all of Richard's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Every time Canal + is advertised on French and Spanish tv channels I realise the big ripoff and overpricing of tv packages offered by Sky.Modern films,documentaries,sport and family entertainment offered for the price of a Sky basaic package.Also factor in the added cost of dubbing or subtitling some programmes.What a great product at a reasonable price on offer in these tv markets.It must be the overpaid and underperforming football players that suscribers are asked to support their blifestyle.
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Canal+ tv in France have reduced their monthly subscription for their premium tv package from 25 to 20 Euro/month.French Match of the day is transmitted free to air on Canal+.They are in touch with the reality of hard economic times.Sky tv urges us to beleive in better, I beleive in Canal+.What a huge ripoff Sky tv is by comparasion.
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I noticed ads on German tv channels for pay tv owned by sky Deutchland (same logo as sky UK).Monthly subscription for HD,basic and 3 premium packages is 60 euro,(£50. Price of all packages in ROI including HD is 91 euro monthly.50% more and no dubbing or subtitling required.Anoher example of the huge rip off that sky is getting away with.
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I remember Premiere,the pay tv German group went bust in the 90s after losing millions.BSKYB must have bought it for a song.Its obvious that charges are geared towards what the markets will bear.Britain and Irelaqnd must be regarded as a soft touch by BSKYB,hence the extortionate charges for their product.I watched the Champions league final on German channel Sat Eins, the commentator stated that it was squeaky bum time for Man Utd as their overpaid underperforming stars played like a Blue Square team.
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I have niticed that another sky operation is doing business in Italy using the sky uk logo.I intend to get information re prices and packages on offer.I will have to turn dish to pick up hotbird signals as most free to air Italian satellite channels use Hotbird 13 east.I doubt if it is as expensive as SKY UK.
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SKY Italia offers 3 basic,3 premium packs, HD included for 60 euro/month.One cinema pack consisting of 12 film channels,sports pack 8 channels and one other sports pack dedicated to Serie A football.Basic packs also consist of several channels,news, doumentaries,family entertainment.Cost in sterling at present exchange rate is £50.
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SKY are promising a price freeze until 2013. Does this mean that they will continue to ripoff their customers until then.Sky has the most expensive pay tv when compared to prices in France,Germany,Spain and Italy.SKY has the most suscribers in the British market boosted by Irish suscribers.It rewards those who show loyalty by charging £20-£25/monthly extra for similar packages offered cheaper in other markets.I suppose those over indulged,over paid footballers cost more t65han they are worth.
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In Ireland premier league football is shown in pubs every Saturday from overseas broadcasters.A full list of matches is placed in the windows of such premises stating details of all games sometimes every night.Some pubs have 3 tvs showing different games.None have commentary in English.Sky never got a licence to broadcast into Southern Ireland.They act as if they were a national company.60 million euro in advertising is taken out of the Irish economy every year by Sky.
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Michael,you need to contact a consumer programme on radio or tv. Watchdog on BBC 1 should be back on in the Autumn.All queries re excessive charges by Sky to British suscribers compared to Sky charges in other European markets should be directed to this programme.In Ireland I have seen piracy of Sky premium channels on cable tv systems in towns and in house in hotels.
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Thursday 5 May 2011 12:09PM
Briantist,my satellite receiver had to be re-programmed to accept signals from both satellites. It rejected signals from freesat when switch was connected.I had to issue a command to receiver to accept dual reception.Signal loss is only 1%.Reception from freesat is at 78%,from astra 1 it is 75%.Cables are 16M in length from dishes.