[mythtvnz] Technisat Skystar2 DVB-S card pricing for NZ market

[Open Media Support]

> [Apologies for replying to a deeper post than the one I'm quoting..]
>
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:40 +1200, Open Media Support wrote:
>> >> 1. Are enough people interested to make it worth my time
>> >
>> > Depends on what the status of the FTA stuff from CanWest is; if we c=
an
>> get
>> > 1-4 FTA unencoded etc, I'd buy one.
>
> CanWest signed a deal as well.
>
> But I am still picking it'll be FTV, not FTA. They'll want to honor the
> regional nature of their rights (ie, they hold the rights for NZ, not
> merely anyone in the footprint with a large enough dish).

How do you define the difference between FTA and FTV

> And it will hurt Sky, because they won't be in a position to
> transparently offer FTA content to their subscribers by just including
> the FTA transpoders in their list.
>
> Someone actually needs to spell this out soon, before the wrong
> decisions are made on purchasing. If there are TVNZ/CanWest/BCL people
> lurking here, _please_ put pressure on the appropriate people to
> publically clarify how it will be delivered!

I know the TVNZ is being pushed to offer HDTV content by the equipment
suppliers.

Steve



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