Originally Posted by 1andrew1:
“At the moment it's a very confusing proposition regarding sports and extra channels. From anecdotal evidence; it's not measured; but there's now a high proportion of satellite houses that don't have working aerials which YouView requires. A Freesat switch would therefore be far easier for Sky households to make than a YouView one.”
Going forward, they need to and I believe will focus on one box- Youview- but, I agree that having a legacy box that is currently offering a different proposition to the future box, does create some confusion.
I take your second point as well, and if indeed, some consumers are ridding themselves of working aerials, that sounds like a reason to me, for BT to start offering something worthy of reversing or slowing this trend.
Each of the rooms that have a tv in my home are served primarily by a Sky box, but still have easy access to a working aerial point, which I regard as a "backup".
Originally Posted by blueisthecolour:
“Personally, I don't think too many customers care about what cables they have at the back of their tv sets or where their tv packages come from.”
That's clearly true, by virtue of the sheer number of households that Sky have connected to a satellite dish; but most of them haven't seen the full extent of fibre yet and the ease by which it can deliver high quality content.
I plugged in a BT Youview box a few weeks ago- it was the easiest experience (I accept that it helped that I had a working aerial) I could have imagined, to extend the viewing options in my house.
It's not a substitute, according to my needs/wishes, for Sky TV, but it is a worthy addition that justifies my reasons for switching telephone and Fibre from Sky to BT.
So, whilst Sky had 100% of my business, BT have now taken a 45% share of it.
Originally Posted by 1andrew1:
“I think for Sky, when you price up their packages with fibre broadband, they do start to look expensive.”
At the top end, BT's up to 76Mb fibre ("Unlimited BT Infinity 2") is available at £26 per month, as opposed to Sky Fibre Pro at £30 per month.
That was a factor in me switching from Sky Fibre to BT Fibre, but I accept that some peoples' lines won't support the highest available speeds and they may not feel that their usage would benefit the higher prices.