What a joke - Foxtel have been selling less-than-SD pictures (pre-filtered and compressed to reduce bandwidth) for years and calling it "Digitial". I guess caveat emptor, but the masses seem to suck it up nonetheless. It's only in the last 2 years that people have been buying 42"+ screens have they noticed how bad the picture is - unwatchable compared to free-to-air in discerning viewer's eyes. Now they're going to sell HD at an even higher cost to Joe Consumer, who will lap it up without complaint, who will be paying so much each month that it would fund a replacement 50" TV every 3 years. And this from a company that has now intruduced commercials onto pay TV using the rationale that it would "...help to keep the costs down"!
Well done, Foxtel. More power to your business model that rakes in the dosh. Australians, you're little better than sheep.
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Doug @ May 2nd 2008 6:46AM
What a joke - Foxtel have been selling less-than-SD pictures (pre-filtered and compressed to reduce bandwidth) for years and calling it "Digitial". I guess caveat emptor, but the masses seem to suck it up nonetheless. It's only in the last 2 years that people have been buying 42"+ screens have they noticed how bad the picture is - unwatchable compared to free-to-air in discerning viewer's eyes.
Now they're going to sell HD at an even higher cost to Joe Consumer, who will lap it up without complaint, who will be paying so much each month that it would fund a replacement 50" TV every 3 years.
And this from a company that has now intruduced commercials onto pay TV using the rationale that it would "...help to keep the costs down"!
Well done, Foxtel. More power to your business model that rakes in the dosh.
Australians, you're little better than sheep.