'Course Murdoch's being whiny but he has a monopoly to protect.
At one time the UK non-Murdoch broadcasters (BBC, ITV, maybe C4?) were talking about their own satellite service, which could sort out the bandwidth problem. It wouldn't be Murdoch-compatible though, as he'd want to make sure it was incompatible with his "conditional access" techology (or whatever the techies call the smartcard/encryption combo).
Given the price that satellite kit sells for these days (when it doesn't need a Murdoch slot), that could be quite attractive to some folks. I'd have to hope that the receivers were a bit better than the Freeview dross that are on the market at the moment though (and that includes "high end" stuff like my Humax which has so little RAM that it can't store any program info beyond name/date/time ie no description).
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Whatever happened to the (non-Sky) Freesat?
'Course Murdoch's being whiny but he has a monopoly to protect.
At one time the UK non-Murdoch broadcasters (BBC, ITV, maybe C4?) were talking about their own satellite service, which could sort out the bandwidth problem. It wouldn't be Murdoch-compatible though, as he'd want to make sure it was incompatible with his "conditional access" techology (or whatever the techies call the smartcard/encryption combo).
Given the price that satellite kit sells for these days (when it doesn't need a Murdoch slot), that could be quite attractive to some folks. I'd have to hope that the receivers were a bit better than the Freeview dross that are on the market at the moment though (and that includes "high end" stuff like my Humax which has so little RAM that it can't store any program info beyond name/date/time ie no description).