[mythtvnz] Optus D1 HPol - TV3/C4

[AlanP]

At 03:23 p.m. 2/02/2007, you wrote:
>Who's making these stupid decisions at Sky? Not making Prime unencrypted 
>doesn't make any sense either.

That's about what I've thought, as well. Approximately all of the Taranaki 
area has Sky Digital (the most basic plan), PURELY because the analog 
reception in rural areas is crap. As soon as they can get FTA digital, Sky 
is going to lose one hell of a lot of customers who don't like paying a 
monthly subscription purely for free to air television. One way to get new 
customers would be to advertise the Sky-exclusive shows, and the only 
really cost-effective way to do that for the most-likely-to-dump-Sky target 
population would be a single FTA Sky channel on which they can spam endless 
ads for their other channels.

>Steve

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