tdgeek:
I dont think its outdated at all. The cost to provide satellite is outdated. If Sky keep satellite it will only be because Optus get with the times. Im sure its all now a sunk cost. It doesnt require an app to be reinstalled when it fails, as my Netflix app did the other night,no connection, everything else was fine. Te STB wont freeze as often as a computer based device will. I don't recall my long held MySky ever freezing. It can output once to everyone, that solves the congestion issue. Yes, they can have less SD and more HD. Its a fine and capable delivery system. The quality that you get from say a rugger game or movie in HD will always be like that, no glitches, no buffering.
The boxing issue was the rights holder yelling and screaming, and I assume they held the rights to be Sky PPV only.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying the satellite delivery method is outdated. It's very reliable from a consumer point of view, and doesn't suffer the bandwidth choking issues associated with the broadband offerings at peak times.
I was meaning the business model of only offering content to existing subscribers.