Sky by Broadband

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Think ill give this a try, its free for now if you subsciribe to movies 1&2 and r sky sports 1&2

http://www.sky.com/skybybroadband/home

Sky digital customers who subscribe to Sky Sports 1 & 2 can get Sky Sports from Sky by broadband, while Sky Movies 1 & 2 subscribers can get Sky Movies from Sky by broadband. Sky customers who subscribe to our premium Sky World package can get both Sky Sports and Sky Movies from Sky by broadband - all at no extra cost. Please refer to your broadband service provider for any data download limits.

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maybe this should be moved to Digital Television Services

done, mark2

[djohn]

Signed up for it last month. :)

[Thos]

This is interesting and useful for many people. However I prefer, in my circumstances, to sit at the computer to do "computer" work and at other times relax in a comfier chair to watch my television on a bigger screen at 100 Hz.

In addition, my usage is capped at 2 Gb per month and I used 1.9 last month, so the usage would soar above my limits.

Thos.

[djohn]

I'm fortunate their Thos as I have a fast connection with no capping or limits at all. I'm not too sure yet if its an advantage, as I have Sky+ which also records films to its hard drive to watch at a later date.

I also tend to watch movies on my wide-screen TV and looking forward to the HD releases, but seeing that my PC is also in my lounge and my chair is very comfortable I often find myself sitting in it to watch TV as well. I'll see how it goes for a while and it will be interesting to compare it with the BBC trials that I also signed up for and download those to my PC but that is part of a trial and I'm not sure yet if the BBC will continue to offer their programs after the testing is over. :unsure:

[djohn]

Having another look at the actual terms & conditions of this, I'm having second thoughts about going ahead with it even though I already have the software download from the BBC trials, I may even withdraw from this and remove the software. Extract below taken fro ADSL guide.

"Looking back at the original Kontiki based SkyByBroadband service, the first month has not been totally smooth, and a few users have been surprised by the peer to peer nature of the service. The Kontiki client that is installed as well as letting you download clips and films, will use some of your upstream bandwidth to share material with other subscribers to the service. What some people are voicing concerns about on our forums and other sites, is that the level of upstream usage is not made clear at sign-up and people are it seems not given an easy way to control it. This is most relevant where people are on a provider that has a usage monitoring system or metering, where downloading a clip may prove more expensive than originally thought since you will also be uploading to others. These issues are relevant to a number of other video by broadband services that the peer to peer model is part of. The Kontiki toolkit is by other media providers including the BBC in its BBC iMP trial. We should point out that closing the visible components of the software will not stop the downloads or uploads, there are two processes running in the background KHost.exe and Kontiki.exe that actually do the hard work.

Full story here at ADSL guide site