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Sky saying that Freesat gone in May

  • 11-03-2015 9:58pm
    #1
    anthonywatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    I was on to Sky today to cancel my contract to go Freesat. They put me onto the loyalty? department who informed me that Freesat will be gone in Ireland from May. He said that they had a briefing saying that BBC, ITV etc will not be available here from May. Is this true I wonder?


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  • #2
    AdrianII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    anthonywatson wrote: »
    I was on to Sky today to cancel my contract to go Freesat. They put me onto the loyalty? department who informed me that Freesat will be gone in Ireland from May. He said that they had a briefing saying that BBC, ITV etc will not be available here from May. Is this true I wonder?

    Hardly true. How would they stop it.


  • #3
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Lies from a Sky salesman ;)


  • #4
    Mellifera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭Mellifera


    Don't know...hadn't heard anything. Think if there was truth in it that it would have been a lot more public by now? Hundreds of thousands of people would be out of service if that were to happen...surely it couldn't be kept that quiet?


  • #5
    anthonywatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭anthonywatson


    He seemed fairly certain of it, and seemed a genuine enough person from Dublin. I wonder why he would lie unless he is on commision for holding onto people. I thought it strange as I never heard that it was supposed to happen


  • #6
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,266 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    anthonywatson wrote: »
    He seemed fairly certain of it, and seemed a genuine enough person from Dublin. I wonder why he would lie unless he is on commision for holding onto people. I thought it strange as I never heard that it was supposed to happen

    He's a salesman....


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  • #7
    Simi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭Simi


    Are they planning on blocking out the sky? It's just a lie, and a bad one at that.


  • #8
    anthonywatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭anthonywatson


    Could they be planning to change freesat from the astra satelite (if this makes sense)


  • #9
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    You're first mistake was thinking Dublin people were honest ;) :P


  • #10
    kaltz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭kaltz


    They told me before that the electricity cost from a Saorview box was more than my Sky subscription. Still laughing at that one.


  • #11
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    anthonywatson wrote: »
    Is this true I wonder?

    No it's not true. They'll throw out any bull**** to keep people from cancelling.


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  • #12
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #13
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Total nonsense, I hope!


  • #14
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    Total nonsense, I hope!

    Of course it's nonsense.


  • #15
    joebloggs32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭joebloggs32


    They will make up anything to try and keep you.
    Last time I rang to cancel I told the dub on the Line I was going to use now tv. First he claimed to have never heard of it, and then within a minute he was claiming that I couldn't watch it in Ireland


  • #16
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Freesat is owned by BBC and ITV and its essentially an EPG and hard drive file system not an infrastructure.

    Its not going anywhere


  • #17
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Freesat is owned by BBC and ITV and its essentially an EPG and hard drive file system not an infrastructure.

    Its not going anywhere

    I know the EPG is the program guide, but how is a satellite signal a hard drive file system?


  • #18
    deco nate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    I know the EPG is the program guide, but how is a satellite signal a hard drive file system?
    For recording?


  • #19
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    I know the EPG is the program guide, but how is a satellite signal a hard drive file system?
    deco nate wrote: »
    For recording?

    Well obviously a HD needs to store and accurately file the information or you'd never be able to call up info and subtitles for example.


  • #20
    STG.Otaku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭STG.Otaku


    http://www.cnet.com/news/freesat-considering-pay-tv-options-failing-to-understand-the-word-free/

    Probably confused himself with this news.


  • #21
    brick man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭brick man


    Maybe the freesat from Sky is going but there is no way that Freesat from BBC ITV will be going anywhere


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  • #22
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    deco nate wrote: »
    For recording?

    OK, I was more thinking of the whole satellite/dish/transmitter structure instead of the box...;)


  • #23
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    STG.Otaku wrote: »
    http://www.cnet.com/news/freesat-considering-pay-tv-options-failing-to-understand-the-word-free/

    Probably confused himself with this news.

    That's from 2010, looks like that didn't quite get off the ground...


  • #24
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,062 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    It couldn't be practically taken away from Irish customers without taking it away from NI (and likely a chunk of Scottish) customers too. That's the nature of satellite transmission. It doesn't recognise borders. There's no practical way for them to broadcast a spot beam in such a way that NI customers would get it and ROI customers wouldn't.


  • #25
    STG.Otaku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭STG.Otaku


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    That's from 2010, looks like that didn't quite get off the ground...


    Not quite. But this has:

    http://www.iptv-news.com/2015/02/freeview-launches-new-connected-tv-service/


  • #26
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    STG.Otaku wrote: »
    Not quite. But this has:

    http://www.iptv-news.com/2015/02/freeview-launches-new-connected-tv-service/

    That was launched with such fanfare that I completely missed it! :D

    And statements like these worry me:
    Our new brand identity is bold and contemporary and will stand out in what is a very crowded TV market

    Means they might be getting pushed into the background by online and terrestrial providers and are desperate to make some noise to be heard. Digital Terrestrial TV also couldn't have done done them many favours in the UK. The Irish are very dependent on it though, with Saorview offering naff all channels and Sky and UPC costing a lot of money and their bundle offers being useless if you life in the sticks, where you will never get any decent broadband.
    Freesat is ideal for rural people in ireland on internet community schemes or with 3G dongles (slow speed and tiny data allowances make Netflix, etc... useless), but these are so laughably insignificant as a customer base, no one but them would care if they where cut off.
    I'd say in the future broadband, phone and TV for rural Ireland will get worse instead of better, because the service providers are commercial entities who couldn't give two sh*tes if Seamus in de shticks has none of the above, since there's no money to be made.
    Because my guess would be that satellite services will be replaced by internet or digital terrestrial based ones. It's only logical, what is cheaper? Firing satellites into orbit or use existing infrastructure...
    There's a lot of talk (OK, bullsh*t and lies) from the gov, but c'mon, they don't really care about some yokels in the middle of nowhere.


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