Sky tv again..

[Sheff de party]

Heard Plymouth away going to be Friday night

Where u erd dis pal?

 

[N20 Blade]

Assuming Blackburn on the last day gets moved, Preston will be our final Saturday 3pm home game of the season. We’ll have had 8/23 (if I’ve counted it right).

Personally, its getting to the point where its not worth getting an ST for the first time in 20+ years. Not because I don't want to, but because I’m missing too many to make it financially worth it. May as well save a few quid and pay for the games I can actually go to.

100% my dad and eldest son (Manchester) make the midweek ones, but me and my two other sons can't because of school & work commitments. I really can't justify this amount of money for 3 season tickets for 7-8 games a season.

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

Where u erd dis pal?

Friend of a friend that heard about Cov game date change over a week before announcement. Hope it’s wrong!

 

[mancunianblade]

just me or does not much get said about Sky losing football all together?

I just don’t see how it’s a sustainable platform anymore. They were so slow to react to the introduction of streaming that they lost a generation of potential customers and I don’t see how they’re recover?

They’re also depending on one of the biggest sporting body’s on earth in the PL? An organisation whose sole aim is money wouldn’t surprise me if the PL are looking at creating their own platform once the deal is up for tender.

A question for anyone who still subscribes to Sky would you keep it if they list the PL?

Appreciate you may want to keep it for the Championship should we be in it but if they lose the PL I don’t see how they’re carry on?

 

[Pollingtonblade]

just me or does not much get said about Sky losing football all together?

I just don’t see how it’s a sustainable platform anymore. They were so slow to react to the introduction of streaming that they lost a generation of potential customers and I don’t see how they’re recover?

They’re also depending on one of the biggest sporting body’s on earth in the PL? An organisation whose sole aim is money wouldn’t surprise me if the PL are looking at creating their own platform once the deal is up for tender.

A question for anyone who still subscribes to Sky would you keep it if they list the PL?

Appreciate you may want to keep it for the Championship should we be in it but if they lose the PL I don’t see how they’re carry on?

If Sky lost it would someone else not just get it?

 

[Selly]

A question for anyone who still subscribes to Sky would you keep it if they list the PL?

Probably. NFL, Cricket, The Championship

All I watch far more than the PL - even when we are in there on the basis of the last two seasons.

 

[mattbianco1]

wouldn’t surprise me if the PL are looking at creating their own platform

I thought the PL had already announced they were planning a "direct-to-consumer" platform by 2030 ?

 

[mancunianblade]

I thought the PL had already announced they were planning a "direct-to-consumer" platform by 2030 ?

Have they? Makes perfect sense really

 

[mancunianblade]

If Sky lost it would someone else not just get it?

I don’t think so, as mattbianco1 states you would expect a PL platform, it would make most sense

 

[Berkshire Blade]

I thought the PL had already announced they were planning a "direct-to-consumer" platform by 2030 ?

Don't think so. Are you getting mixed up with this which is more a production thing than consumer offer

Premier League and IMG joint statement: Premier League media production operations

At Shareholders’ meeting, clubs unanimously agree to the Premier League establishing a new in-house media operations business.

www.premierleague.com

 

[mattbianco1]

I don’t think so, as mattbianco1 states you would expect a PL platform, it would make most sense

Don't think so. Are you getting mixed up with this which is more a production thing than consumer offer

Premier League and IMG joint statement: Premier League media production operations

At Shareholders’ meeting, clubs unanimously agree to the Premier League establishing a new in-house media operations business.

www.premierleague.com

This is what I saw

The Premier League's 'Netflix of Football' Streaming Service Moves A Step Closer

Could 'Premflix' finally be on the way?

www.versus.uk.com

 

[The Fox]

It's something Simon Jordan has harked on about for a while . Something like it would make sence for the EPL to be the broadcaster , rather than sell the rights to broadcasters.
EPL.tv or whatever then sell the sponsorships ,ads , packages to platforms etc.

 

[mancunianblade]

Really does feel like Skys days are numbered.

 

[Bladesman]

Really does feel like Skys days are numbered.

Even as a subscriber myself it can't come soon enough.

They can't carry on trying to charge what they do when there are more alternatives now.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

This is what I saw

The Premier League's 'Netflix of Football' Streaming Service Moves A Step Closer

Could 'Premflix' finally be on the way?

www.versus.uk.com

Yeah that's someone willful or just misunderstanding what the announcement is.

Long term it seems to be the way it will go but it isn't announced

 

[Selly]

Really does feel like Skys days are numbered.

And the product is about (next 5 years) to get significantly worse - and already is if your are a new subscriber.

There isn't an option to have a dish anymore. You have to have Sky Stream.

Which means you need a decent internet connection, not a given in most posts of the country.

And any live sport you are watching comes with the significant streaming delay. I don't want to be watching United and have updates from people at the game or with a better internet connection telling me what had happened before I get to see it myself.

 

[SwissBlade]

Sky produce expensive content for dodgy firestick owners nowadays

 

[Berkshire Blade]

And the product is about (next 5 years) to get significantly worse - and already is if your are a new subscriber.

There isn't an option to have a dish anymore. You have to have Sky Stream.

Untrue. Google sky q. You can still get it. They even extended satellite coverage recently...

 

[Selly]

Untrue. Google sky q. You can still get it. They even extended satellite coverage recently.

I have Sky Q - and they may continue to support it for a while but there is no question they are pivoting to streaming.

I can't see an option on their homepage to sign up for a satellite dish.

(And I would note that with their streaming box your have to pay to be asked to skip the ads, something that I can do on Sky Q recordings as I please)

 

[Varkanoid]

Untrue. Google sky q. You can still get it. They even extended satellite coverage recently...

Yes you can still order Sky Q with a proper recording box. I checked it out recently and it gives you the option to have Sky Q.

 

[mancunianblade]

Noticed the other day they’re cutting 2000 jobs here in Stockport as well as Sheffield and another location.

 

[mancunianblade]

I like the 3pm blackout, I just can’t see how much longer it will be able to hold out however..

 

[247Blade]

Couch potato looks like being the future ... oh the memories of live games Saturday 3pm and Tuesday/Wednesday 7.30pm ... All good things come to the end .... fucking SKY!

 

[Upton_Blade]

And the product is about (next 5 years) to get significantly worse - and already is if your are a new subscriber.

There isn't an option to have a dish anymore. You have to have Sky Stream.

Which means you need a decent internet connection, not a given in most posts of the country.

And any live sport you are watching comes with the significant streaming delay. I don't want to be watching United and have updates from people at the game or with a better internet connection telling me what had happened before I get to see it myself.

Not true. They are certainly pushing Stream and Glass more as they're the latest products and are easier as no engineer is required.

You can still order Sky Q if you're internet isn't up to scratch or you simply just don't want the new products though.

 

[Selly]

OK - well I withdraw my immediate concerns around the death of satellite TV - seems like I was scare mongered into believing something by some stuff online around satellite reaching end of life etc etc.

 

[Maidenhead]

just me or does not much get said about Sky losing football all together?

I just don’t see how it’s a sustainable platform anymore. They were so slow to react to the introduction of streaming that they lost a generation of potential customers and I don’t see how they’re recover?

They’re also depending on one of the biggest sporting body’s on earth in the PL? An organisation whose sole aim is money wouldn’t surprise me if the PL are looking at creating their own platform once the deal is up for tender.

A question for anyone who still subscribes to Sky would you keep it if they list the PL?

Appreciate you may want to keep it for the Championship should we be in it but if they lose the PL I don’t see how they’re carry on?

I mainly have it for the Rugby League.

I watch hardly any football on it , apart from re runs of the game I was at the day before, and I would soon adapt to living without that.

If however they stopped showing the rugby my Skysports subscription would be gone tomorrow.

 

[Gordon Freeman]

Not true. They are certainly pushing Stream and Glass more as they're the latest products and are easier as no engineer is required.

As with everything, it’s to save money.

TV broadcast carried over satellite costs them a yearly contract fee based on their expected data usage (and data use per subscriber is increasing due to 4K, multichannel audio, etc).

The reason they bought the O2 ISP, and turned it into Sky Broadband (the OTHER reason - as well as the ability to upsell it and use customer internet activity to advertise to them) is because large data networks, typically ISPs and content delivery networks/cloud providers, enter into reciprocal data exchanges called peering agreements (“I send 100tbps of data to your network, you send 100tbps to mine - why are we paying a middle-man data carrier when we can build a direct link and do it for free” - that’s a peering agreement).

Sky, being the second biggest ISP in the county, have peering agreements with everyone, and the more data they throw around, the more interested third-parties are to enter into peering agreements.

So whilst data transmission via the internet isn’t “free”, unlike broadcasting via third-party satellites, it is fairly cost neutral.

Sky’s satellite deal expires in 2029. So it wouldn’t be a huge shock if they announce Sky Q ends in 2029.

 

[Pintor75]

Renewed in January after 8 month unsubscribed, hardly watch a game unless blades or got a bet on. Wouldn't watch rugby league, cricket, Darts, Snooker or women's stuff if they played in the back garden so already thinking of quitting

 

[Linz]

Noticed the other day they’re cutting 2000 jobs here in Stockport as well as Sheffield and another location.

They got too greedy with their paying customers and pushed them into being not-paying customers.

It's like streaming piracy. If you make it easier to subscribe to a service and the cost/benefit relationship works out, you're more likely to subscribe to the legal service. Netflix, for instance. It was reasonably cheap, the platform was good and people subscribed. It had a huge market share.

As soon as you start increasing the costs, or enshittifying it in some other way (ads), you push people back towards being bothered to pirate. Instead of being happy with what profits you are getting from an individual customer, you start getting none.

 

[pedro]

Whatever changes that will be made in house PL in house Football league there is one cast iron guarantee it wiil cost more
because the whole concept is MONEY