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RE: ITV Digital Collapsed!
What I
dont understand is WHY did they offer so much money for showing
football.
I
HATE
SPORT.
ITV
Digital were in trouble becuse they hadnt reached their "Break Even" point
of
1.7million subscribers.
The
still owe the FA £179million.
Even
by my somtimes dodgy maths, that equates to over £100 per subscriber
on top of
what they already paid. That means that even non sports subscribers would
have
been subsidising the sports viewers subscriptions.
Given
the low value progamming shown on most non sports channels I believe that
if the
subscriptions were based on what the content actually cost then Non Sports
fans
could have about 50 channesl for a fiver per month and Sports fans should
be
paying £50 per DAY.
To cap
it all, because of the fast moving content of sports they also allocated
the
majority of the bandwidth to Sports.
I
seem
to remember before the launch of digital TV that they said the improvement
in
picture quality would be as dramatic as the change from AM radio to
CD.
Compared to the pictures I used to get from Analogue satellite the
channels I have seen on ITV digital have definately gone the other way, for
me
the degradation is comparable to going from FM radio to Real Audio on a
28k8
modem :-(
Sadly
SKY digital seem to be doing the same by squeezing bitrates below the
acceptable
minimum.......Oh yeah.......and they put the prices up every year
:-(
Keith
www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv
I am just surprised it took so
long. The whole thing was a classic
demonstration of business and
technical
incompetence..
----- Original Message -----
From:
"Kenneth
Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>
To: "UKHA_D"
<ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:10
PM
Subject: [ukha_d] ITV Digital Collapsed!
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1950000/1950325.stm
>
>
oh dear!
>
> K., @ Work, should be working!
;-)
>
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