little blue penguin Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 There is a petition in progress to try to achieve this. The following post is from the Freeviewshop Forum and includes a link to the petition site; Hi Guys, I'm new here, but was advised to sign up by Lars at the Freeviewshop to tell you about my petition to get Sky TV to put Prime on FreeView . I set up the petition less than 24 hours ago and already well over 100 people have signed it. I think if we all get behind this, we have a real chance of bending Sky's ear. If you think you'd like to support this idea, you are welcome to sign the petition here . If you'd like to share this with friends and family, the link is http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/prime-tv-on-freeview.html I'm committed to getting support for this any way possible and will personally be seeing this through, even if it means actually knocking on Sky's door myself. Best regards, Bill Ruys. Please support this petition. BTW, I'm not Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Hanify Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Gidday not Bill Signed. One of the factors in me not getting freeview is the absence of that channel. Cheers, Shane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixon76 Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Signed. Another reason not to get Freeview (sat) is that currently the PQ is arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilNZ Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 The only reason I don't have Freeview is because of this. So, signed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopper30 Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 In my opinion if Freeview couldn't negotiate getting Prime on it's service at the same time as giving Sky TV1,2,6 and 7 they probably don't deserve to have it. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 The government (owner of TVNZ) mandated that those channels had to be available on Sky. Thus losing the bargaining chip that Freeview had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minimoke Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 I feel sorry for the advertisers. Since I got my Freeview box I haven’t watched Prime so I have no idea what they might be wanting to sell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid1553552671 Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Signed. Madmen was one of the few programs on the box that I'd bothered to catch each week and it's daft that I can't watch it on the big tele upstairs as it only has freeview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffy Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Using GBPVR my tuner switches to analog, i get the EPG from : http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/listings-all.xml.gz and 1 touch record... Prime will have to be on Free-to-air by 2015 (digital cutoff). Whats strange is Sky talk some really weird talk, they say they must meet 'international' requirement to prevent licensed material spreading via satellite to other countries (ie. have to encoded their Sky Digital signal of Prime FTA? Yet TVNZ don't?????) but it seems an Australian would need a very large Satellite Disc to receive the signal (incidentally we can receive Australian Satellite signal spread in NZ...) Then they quote amazing prices to play their SD channel on Freeview, which of course Freeview wish they could get that sort of money ($2-3 million). Sky are scared of losing customers - this is the real reason I watch Top Gear (skip the adverts as I record it) on Prime, that's it. All I want from Sky is a Crusaders/Canterbury (one eyed) rugby match per week, guess that's why I gave it back... Bluray film anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffy Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Mr Fellet placed Prime’s transition costs if it moved onto the Freeview platform at approximately $3.3 million. This includes $200,000 annual service fee, $1.62 million on HD transmission and linking costs through Kordia, and another $1.5 million on upgrading infrastructure. But Prime doesn’t have to go to HD to get on Freeview; it’s already transmitted as a digital signal. The annual service fee of $200,000 dollars, plus Kordia's linking and other distribution costs, would hardly trouble Sky’s books. "If we got government assisted funding to set it up, like TV Works and TVNZ did, then we'd be on there now," Tony O'Brien of Sky TV said. http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/prime-freeview-no-hope-34739 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam1553552670 Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Signed. One of the factors in me not getting freeview is the absence of that channel. This is exactly why Sky doesn't want to do it. Freeview is their competition, and anything that increases Freeview's market share is bad for Sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clevedon Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Makes sense for Sky not to give it to Freeview, business is business - why help the competition, got to look after us shareholders first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffy Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10571567 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixon76 Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 I think I am now dumber for reading that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffy Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 He said that consumers benefited from Sky's pay-TV monopoly. :confused::confused::confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electra Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 what an f'ing load of tripe sky have spewed out there. God I hate monopolies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sub Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 It erks me that as a NZ superannuitant I simply cannot afford to subscribe to Sky (not that I miss it - I subscribed for 10 years and by the end I could only find 2 or 3 programmes a week worth watching) (I never subscribed to the Movie channels!) and as such I cannot watch my national sport live. My saviour was watching the delayed telecast on Friday nights on Prime, but now being in a poor reception area I can only receive Freeview satellite - so no Prime and no rugby. Great reward for 45 years of toil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopeful1553552727 Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Hi Sub. Getting a bit off topic, but if your house can't receive UHF Prime then Sky should supply you a Sky receiver set to only receive Prime via satellite with NO monthly charges. We have done this. It cost us around $150 to have it installed, as we had no satellite dish, but if you already have a dish for Freeview then with the help of a splitter, you might be able to get the installation for significantly less or nothing. I understand this service is part of Sky's obligation to provide Prime as free-to-air coverage. Back to topic, like many of the rest of you I eagerly await Prime being added to the list of Freeview channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfkBill Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Hey, great tip Hopeful! We had multiroom but canceled it, leaving us a spare sky receiver (they haven't collected it after well over a month). Mind you, we still have Prime down the other end of the house on HDi, so they may not be too sympathetic Looks like Prime will be on Freeview soon anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixon76 Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 gfkBill;91782 wrote: Looks like Prime will be on Freeview soon anyway. Or maybe not: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/telecoms-it-media/2419341/Sky-TV-refuses-to-budge-on-Prime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfkBill Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Bummer. Broadcasting minister should have subtly insinuated to Sky the the review might be resurrected if they didn't come to the Freeview party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam1553552670 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I wonder if Prime would be an improvement on DVB-S. Freeview picture quality is absolutely awful now: worse than analogue over-the-air. I noticed that there are now four TV1 feeds, and all of them are pixellated and nearly unwatchable, and TV3 has taken a hit as well since +1 started. I will have to bite the bullet and get a DVB-T box if this is what we can expect from satellite moving forward! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little blue penguin Posted May 29, 2009 Author Share Posted May 29, 2009 A cynic might suspect that the picture quality of DVB-S has been deliberately degraded to make DVB-T look good. DVB-S was stunning when I first got an STB 18 months ago, so it's very dissapointing to see the poor quality of current broadcasts. Last weekend I had a look at DVB-T on a Samsung LA52A850 LCD screen, and was gobsmacked at the detail. But Oamaru isn't going to be getting HD anytime soon. FFF:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grex Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 sooo.. im not the only one who has experienced this awful pixellated signal on my tv. i thought my eyes were being funny. so is this awful reception will be a trademark of dvb-s quality now ? is the only way of getting good pic quality is through dvb-t now ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixon76 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 See here: http://www.audioenz.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=8008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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