[mythtvnz] [Fwd: Sky Television: Infringement of rights]

[Aaron Whitehouse]

Steve Hodge wrote:

> It does seem backward to me though as the EPG/SkyWatch is simply an 
> enabler for their core business which is getting people to watch TV. 

The economics change dramatically when you consider that Sky are now in 
the PVR market. MySky provides great lock-in, so it becomes a valuable 
asset. The more that Sky can prevent anyone else giving decent access to 
Sky programs on a PVR, the more people with Sky will get a MySky and 
will stay on Sky (among other reasons, to avoid losing their MySky).

It is a shame that Sky has taken this approach. If anybody who received 
a letter would like to talk through the general concepts, please contact 
me off-list.

It doesn't personally affect me, as I only use Freeview channels 
(ironically, I would probably subscribe to Sky if it were more open), 
but a similar thing could happen for those (I thought TVNZ took issue 
once before).

For that reason, I would be very keen to see MHEG integrated into MythTV 
in the same way as the "Use EIT data" option -- at the moment with a 
DVB-T card, it is very difficult to get EPG data without using the 
internet sources.

Regards,

Aaron