Drop HD save £9

[PandJ2020]

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

@Mark39"What LOST income" ?

---

If HD was given 'free' then the subscription income would reduce drastically.  That would be lost income.

In reality they would have to raise the base price for everyone to compensate.

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

Sorry - I have to ask the question - how much more does it cost Sky to transmit in HD than SD ?

Probably fractions of a penny

---

Satellites aren't cheap to run and HD requires a higher bandwidth than SD.

At the end of the day it's ultimately a commerical decision by Sky - but you don't have to pay it...

[caesarome]

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

@caesarome What happens to my HD recordings - I assume they become viewable in SD

and what about future recordings (things like ExpeditionX on Discovery HD and Oak Island on History HD) - do I have to reset the recordings to SD - or are they automatically downgraded ?

---

Any recording in HD from pay channels will be blocked as you will be asked to upgrade and future ones will need changing to SD.

[Mark39]

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

@Mark39"What LOST income" ?

Sorry - I have to ask the question - how much more does it cost Sky to transmit in HD than SD ?

Probably fractions of a penny

---

Well obviously, if Sky stopped charging for HD, that would be lost income. 

. 

[Wibbly-Woo]

@Mark39That's not what I asked......

[Mark39]

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

@Mark39That's not what I asked......

---

All your questions/comments here have been addressed, if not by me, then by other contributors.

[TimmyBGood]

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

Sorry - I have to ask the question - how much more does it cost Sky to transmit in HD than SD ?

Probably fractions of a penny

---

Most likely several million pounds per channel per year, because there's a substantial difference in the data volume involved and satellite transit is charged per megabyte.  However it's also undoubtedly a substantial profit centre, which is kind of the point of being in business.
 

[Wibbly-Woo]

@TimmyBGood and how many customers does Sky currently have?

I think that you know where this is going.......? 

[daveNOS]

@Wibbly-Woo The only place this is going is round in circles, just like your previous thread.

Every question you've asked has been answered and yet you still don't seem able to take on board the answers(or more likely won't as it's not the answer you want).

If you want to know how many customers Sky has then use Google, the information is freely available. 

[TimmyBGood]

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

@TimmyBGood and how many customers does Sky currently have?

---

Apparently not enough to post an overall profit in the last Comcast financial results.

The HD supplement will disappear with the end of satellite broadcasting.

[Wibbly-Woo]

17.85 Million - total number of UK customers

If we assume that 66% pay for HD - Thats approx  12 million

@£9 per month - each - that's an astonishing £12,960,000,000 Annual income - just from HD !!

Which is more than "a few million pounds"

[GD1]

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

@Mark39"What LOST income" ?

Sorry - I have to ask the question - how much more does it cost Sky to transmit in HD than SD ?

Probably fractions of a penny

---

No one here is privvy to what Sky pay for satellite capacity, but I can say for sure it runs into the £10,000s per day at the very minimum.

And shock horror a commercial entity that is making a profit!!!

Last time I looked Comcast who own Sky aren't listed as a charity or non profit company.

[PandJ2020]

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

that's an astonishing £12,960,000,000 Annual income - just from HD !!

---

Try your calculator again...  (Clue: it's not £13bn)

Still a large number though.

[Mark39]

...nor are HD subscribers all likely to be paying £9 per month.

[MarkGoldsmith]

and 66% paying for HD is probably a high number considering that HD is included as default on Glass/Stream.

[TimmyBGood]

---

@Wibbly-Woo wrote:

17.85 Million - total number of UK customers

Nowhere near that for television: probably under ten million households these days.

If we assume that 66% pay for HD - Thats approx  12 million

@£9 per month - each - that's an astonishing £12,960,000,000 Annual income - just from HD !!

Let's say 50% of ten million at an average of £5 a month: that would be around £300 million a year. Definitely not to be sneezed at, but rather a long way from thirteen billion...

---