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  #215570 18-May-2009 12:09
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Is anybody really all that surprised by this????



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  #215580 18-May-2009 12:38
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Lack of Prime is a major reason for me not bothering to put a dish on the roof. (UHF is too sketchy to go DVB-T at my place).

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  #215586 18-May-2009 13:39
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I guess they're going to have to put it there, eventually, since analogue customers are reducing (and proportion of households with Freeview is increasing by about 1% of total a month).



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  #215614 18-May-2009 15:14
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I think it really unlikely that Sky will add rpime to the freeview satellite service in the next few years as there would be thousands of people outside of Prime coverage areas that only have basic sky service in order to receive Prime.

For me - based on what is on Prime that is worth watching. I think I might only mis one programme a week if I moved to freeview. Smile

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  #215645 18-May-2009 17:02
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i thought they 'agreed' to put prime on dvb-t? hmm that sucks if it doesnt go on digi terrestial either.

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  #215668 18-May-2009 18:32
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joker97: i thought they 'agreed' to put prime on dvb-t? hmm that sucks if it doesnt go on digi terrestial either.
Where did you see that?

Given they are quoted as stating they will be putting significant hours of the Olympics onto Prime, it will be extremely interesting to see which way they go. One thing's for certain, they will make it very difficult to anyone not involving Sky.




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  #216481 20-May-2009 21:58
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If its going to stay a FTA channel they will have to do something before analog gets switched off, do they have a reason to encrypt it on DVB-S? can it be picked up outside nz or something?


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