Hiamie:

mattwnz:

 

I had Sty TV when they didn't play adverts on it. Or if there were adverts, they were only played between programs, and not during them. I guess if you have a mysky box you can skip them though.

 

Yes I remember that. I even purchased my first sky decoder outright rather than rent it. In those days Sky TV had about 5 channels only, but they were all good, and there was little or no adverts.

Nowadays Sky TV offers dozens of channels but there are still only a handful of worthwhile ones to watch! And sadly, those are full of adverts throughout.

To me, that's a a step backwards not forwards.

No wonder I left Sky TV.

I recall that was when they broadcast over UHF, which I recall was early to mid 90's. They then wanted everyone to then upgrade to their satellite service, which is similar to what it is today, where there are heaps of channels, but the quality isn't there, and I recall it was more expensive as well at the time to upgrade. I think we just ended up cancelling it after that.