They will want to push people onto iQ5, and they can be satellite, wifi or Ethernet streaming.
It makes sense to me to offer ultra high definition channels to encourage people to firstly, upgrade to iQ5 and secondly, to take up Ethernet or wifi so the satellite delivery can slowly start to be phased out.
For those with no internet or poor connection, it will soon become a case of “bad luck”. Which sucks.
If channels were consolidated and +2’s removed, like he said, they’d find the space. Perhaps more would need to be cut. I think in general 1 4K channel = 3-4 HD channels in bandwidth.
its more that they are losing access to the HFC network so there are those who can not access satellite for various reasons would not have access to the service. by offering an all in one, they open up cost savings.
they can sell the box in retailers (like fetch), users can take it home, plug it in and activate without any special gear, and use it until the satellite is installed. it also consoloidates boxes - at the moment they support both cable and sat and that is a bugger from a tech support standpoint.
Does someone actually know the space required for this? I don’t think just cutting out +2 channels would cover it. Like you said they would need to basically blend channels together. It will make Foxtel worse than what it is now.
Stop charging for HD and get rid of all of the duplicated SD channels
Today I am going to stream the movie “In The Heights” on Foxtel. I have been in lockdown for months and need a feel good movie. I was expecting to pay $5 or $6 for the pleasure - but it’s $30!
I am still going to stream it. It’s the simple pleasures that count in a lockdown. It will be the most expensive movie I have ever watched.
That’d be because it’s still in cinemas.
Just looked - it’s £16 in the UK. That’s over A$30
go to bed it’s after midnight
Best $30 I have spent this lockdown*
(* Not counting purchases of Shiraz)
Buried in this article about foxtel is a reference to foxtel recently outbidding stan for the rights to formula 1 for about $40m a season.
We haven’t seen any announcements to any of this.
Interesting, I would have thought it would have been announced, I wonder if it’s still being worked through.
Are the sources within Nine Entertainment which is the master head for the news paper this article was in?
Yes I wonder if there was a tender process but no official announcement. Would’ve been good to see it go to Stan.
Paramount+/10 would’ve been a good choice too.
Quite happy with the extension of the F1 deal here thus means one less sports subscription for myself.
Unless I’ve just been mentally blocking it out for ages, it looks like TVSN recently turned up on Foxtel Now / Foxtel Go.
Anyway, not that I want to watch it, but the picture quality is much better than the heavily compressed version on WIN.
Typically it’s located at channel 176.
It’s been available on Now since it began if I recall correctly. Not sure about Go.
Thanks. I must have pushed it out of my memory. I wonder what useful information it has pushed out of my mind now? Probably that password I spent half the afternoon figuring out.
