Fur Q Murdoch

[doodab]

I wonder if this is part of the reason they've chucked a new satellite into orbit to provide Sky services to the UK, using a narrower band so those in mainland Europe (i.e. all the expats) can't as easily tune into UK intended broadcasts, or will need a much bigger dish to do so.

This probably has more to do with the BBC, C4 and the other freesat channels who are required to restrict their (unencrypted) broadcasts to the British Isles by the people they buy programs from. Sky encrypt their channels, so don't actually need to worry about it.

[Zippy]

I think this is great news - the prices that woman was being charged were piss-taking. We operate in a free market or we don't and either way that applies to Sky. Chiselling barstewards.

[PAH]

I wonder if this is part of the reason they've chucked a new satellite into orbit to provide Sky services to the UK, using a narrower band so those in mainland Europe (i.e. all the expats) can't as easily tune into UK intended broadcasts, or will need a much bigger dish to do so.

May work the other way too, forcing those in UK to use this new satellite and thus not as easily get foreign intended sources?

Haven't they also stopped Sky Italy etc from broadcasting an English language channel, so you may get the picture but need to find another source for the English commentary?

All that seems much easier than just harmonising prices across Europe.

[gingerjedi]

BBC News - Premier League games can be shown on foreign decoders

If they didn't take the piss on pub pricing people wouldn't try and circumvent it, providing this doesn't get overturned we should all be able to watch PL football for next to nothing and the PL will be downsized accordingly... then England will win the World Cup.