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E4 going fta: Homechoice lineup somewhat less inviting now?
marcouk76
27-04-2005
In all the other forums everybody's talking about E4 going fta and the impact it will have on subscription services such as NTL, $ky and HOMECHOICE, but we are still stuck discussing connections, Ethernet and XBOX (thanks NinjaPirate!).

Anyway, do you think that now that E4 is going to be available for free, Homechoice might be persuaded to increase his poor channels line up?

At the moment there are only a couple of channels that you get on Homechoice basic package but cannot get with either Freeview or Top Up (Paramount, CNN, CNBC, Eurosport) and there are few that Homechoice doesn't even carry (FTN, $ky Travel, TMF, The Hits and most importantly ABC1)!

Would Homechoice finally wake up and perhaps get $ky One, Living TV, the rest of $ky Movies or Filmfour???

What do you all think?
MH1
27-04-2005
e4 as been free to air on ntl for about the last year
marcouk76
27-04-2005
Originally Posted by MH1:
“e4 as been free to air on ntl for about the last year”

Yeah ok, but to have a NTL box you need to be (or had to be) an NTL subsciber at some point...

I am just thinking about someone wanting to get some extra channels and perhaps even Broadband and having the choice of spending £15 per month for Broadband + £40 for a Freevew box and £7.99 for TopUP TV or £23.50 for Broadband, not all of the channels he'd get on Freeview/Top UP and perhaps an extra 3 or 4 channels...
Nikhil
27-04-2005
Homechoice definitely needs to improve its basic lineup. Especially now, they should at least give us E4+1 as well as E4....seeing that DTT get it free too.
TheNinjaPirate
28-04-2005
I'm not sure channel line up is the selling point of HC though. I have it because I live somewhere where NTL can't provide broadband, I have a shared aerial so can't get Freeview and can't put a satellite dish on my property. So I either have the NTL package and get my broadband seperately - meaning I end up paying for both an NTL and BT phone line, NTL subscription AND broadband subscription. So HC is the most economical, and realistically, the only way I can receive any channels other than 1 - 5. I suspect a lot of people who have HC are in a similar position. In which case it is rather academic whether E4 is FTA, non?
londonspod
28-04-2005
Originally Posted by marcouk76:
“In all the other forums everybody's talking about E4 going fta and the impact it will have on subscription services such as NTL, $ky and HOMECHOICE, but we are still stuck discussing connections, Ethernet and XBOX (thanks NinjaPirate!). ”

Well, I'm sorry that you found my thread annoying or boring Marco, but it was a question that I had and I thought that this was on of the better forums to polace it on and no-one else seemed to mind.

With regards to E4, I am in a similar position as Ninjapirate in that I can't get Sky because I am in block of flats and they want to charge me a fortune to have a Sky box connected to the communal dish which I can't afford. I can't get cable of any sort as my area doesn't have cable and HC was the best option too. I agree with Ninja that's it not always about the channel lineup for some HC subscribers, but the fact that you can get Broadband and more channels without a Satellite dish or having to move to an area that has cable.

Granted, it would be nice to have a few more channels, but I harldy think that HC is going to do this just because of E4 has gone FTA. Consider the fact that some of the shows that are on E4 end up on Channel 4 later on anyway(just a few weeks or months later).
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