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- By Gears
-
- Message to the European viewers !
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-
- I've been trying to translate some German letters from the teletext
- service on a German channel. I was bored... OKAY ?!?!?!?! Anyway...
- from what I can make out, it seems that most German satellite viewers
- are angry because they can't watch the English channels any-more. I'd
- just like to send a small message to those German and european people
- who can't watch the english channels on the Astra satellites :-
-
- Wake up ! You're getting the best deal - buy a dish and don't pay
- anything for the channels ! We have to pay to watch a shopping channel !
- Now come on ! Okay, so you get dubbed films but that's not my fault !
- I don't like learning languages... in fact, I still haven't mastered
- english ?!?! Don't think that everyone except the english are being
- "locked out" of these channels, IT'S JUST A WAY OF RAISING REVENUE !
- Please don't believe that Sky TV don't want you to see their
- programmes - I think they'd love the money !
-
- Sky TV do not have as many viewers as the German channels do - there
- are twice as many dish owners in Germany (thus explaining the German
- ads on MTV). German channels can support themselves through advertising,
- Sky can't. So we pay, and we still have to watch the adverts aswell.
- Good huh ? Anyway, I'm sure everyone has read (in this mag!) how pissed
- off all us dish-owners are at having to pay such a ridiculous price for
- average programming on Sky TV plus other channels that we don't watch.
-
- In the UK we have some small local cable companies, but they're running
- into problems as they start destroying water-pipes, sewage pipes, gas
- pipes, electricity cables and phone links. The cable companies can't do
- anything about this - some water pipes were laid in the Victorian era.
- One wrong move and "Bloggs Cable" get soaked in sewage. It's a lot easier
- to put cables down in some countries as there aren't gas pipes and
- everything is laid out better.
-
- So you see, we only have 4 national channels (and about 13 regional
- companies) so to the UK public Sky TV is the easiest way to get more
- channels. It costs to buy crap American progra.... erm.. I mean.. good
- quality American programmes, so we have to foot some of the bill. So
- Sky scrambled the movie channels..... then the comedy channel
- (remember that ?), then Sky Sports (just as people were getting it for
- the footie - smart move by Sky ?!), then ..... everything.... basically.
- But, with rich American business-men (Hello Mr. Turner - Owner of CNN,
- Cartoon Network and TNT) giving us free channels, there is now a bit -
- and it is a bit - of competition for Sky. If there was more
- english-language satellite competition (a channel that would refuse
- scramble or charge a lower rate) then we would soon see the subscription
- price drop. At the moment though, Sky have a monopoly in the
- subscription area of European satellite TV so..... we'll have to live
- with it or go back to the CRAP 4 channels that we usually have !
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