Yep, GoT came down perfectly fine on the MySky HD last night, but it's surprisingly low-res. Considering SoHo is a premium channel and Sky charge extra for it, I would have expected MUCH better pic quality.
Apsattv: They were probably taking it off a global satellite feed. The weather around the country was not that great today. They may have had reception issues.
If it did , then it simply shows how "knives and bearskins" Sky TV are,
I would have expected that this would be distibuted digitally and NZ ( and OZs) copy would be grabbed off a server in the US via the SX cable,
Apsattv: They were probably taking it off a global satellite feed. The weather around the country was not that great today. They may have had reception issues.
If it did , then it simply shows how "knives and bearskins" Sky TV are,
I would have expected that this would be distibuted digitally and NZ ( and OZs) copy would be grabbed off a server in the US via the SX cable,
distribution method would be determined by HBO. If they decide to do it via satellite, there is nothing Sky can do about it.
given the SD leaks, HBO would want to hold back the proper 'HD' version as long as humanly possible to stop it getting out before official broadcast - hence being a live satellite feed instead of sending the content digitally which likely would be the norm.
Apsattv: They were probably taking it off a global satellite feed. The weather around the country was not that great today. They may have had reception issues.
If it did , then it simply shows how "knives and bearskins" Sky TV are,
I would have expected that this would be distibuted digitally and NZ ( and OZs) copy would be grabbed off a server in the US via the SX cable,
distribution method would be determined by HBO. If they decide to do it via satellite, there is nothing Sky can do about it.
given the SD leaks, HBO would want to hold back the proper 'HD' version as long as humanly possible to stop it getting out before official broadcast - hence being a live satellite feed instead of sending the content digitally which likely would be the norm.
it should be possible to encrypt and distribute a file ahead of time, and only deliver the decryption key/certificate (a few bytes/kB) when needed.... you could even encrypt each file with a unique cert for each recipient
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES DELAY GLOBAL SIMULCAST OF GAME OF THRONES
MEDIA RELEASE
13 April 2015
SoHo’s planned simulcast of the first episode of Season Five of HBO’s Game of Thrones was delayed today due to playout issues experienced by the international company supplying the live feed.
SKY has been working with the HBO endorsed secure supplier to test their delivery system over the past couple of weeks and the testing had been faultless.
However due to a technical issue with the supplier’s system as they were attempting to deliver the live feed for satellite transmission this afternoon the playout failed. Their efforts to rectify the situation were unsuccessful and therefore the episode was unable to be simulcast in New Zealand.
A secondary file download of the episode for the 8.30pm screening on SoHo and NEON meant that SoHo was able to access and screen the episode on SKY channel 010 at 3.35pm.
“It is incredibly disappointing for all of us that this has happened today, however we have worked with our suppliers to ensure that we were able to get the full episode to air as soon as we could this afternoon,” said SKY CEO John Fellet.
“There will naturally be some fans who were upset they were unable to watch the simulcast at 1pm and we are working with both HBO and the supplier to identify the problem so that it does not affect future 1pm simulcasts during the remainder of the season.”
MY SKY series links assigned to the 1pm screening were transferred to the 3.35pm broadcast.
As a secondary file is used for the 8.30pm screening on SoHo and NEON neither of these broadcasts are affected by the difficulties with the live feed.
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