Is sky phasing out the use of satellite dishes and going exclusively to television through broad

[Chodley]

@spannernick1 you can still get Sky Q for now though

[ORDEAL]

It won't be 40 seconds behind once the satellite feed doesn't exist.

[Sharpie]

Get a Starlink mini for your van, they work great and you'll have fast internet to stream Sky from anywhere 

[TimmyBGood]

@Sharpie 

On Sky Go, yes.  Using a Stream puck that way would be a breach of the T&C's.

[screaming+eagle]

Bulgaria . The EUs poorest nation has be dish free for 3 years 

[Chodley]

Because they can't afford them?

(I jest of course, my first ever foreign holiday was there when it was still communist! And have some good friends there from work)

[TimmyBGood]

---

@screaming+eagle wrote:

Bulgaria . The EUs poorest nation has be dish free for 3 years 

---

Perhaps someone should tell Bulsatcom 

https://www.vivacom.bg/eon/eon-sat-tv 

[Yorkshire+Woodman]

Starlink (or simila) is the most likely future for the delivery of your TV signal in the home as well as in your van.

[Chodley]

---

@Yorkshire+Woodman wrote:

Starlink (or simila) is the most likely future for the delivery of your TV signal in the home as well as in your van.

---

Not in the home. Ground based internet is so much cheaper, faster and more reliable.

[Yorkshire+Woodman]

Yes at the moment, but when there are 42,000 satellites there will be so much capacity it will be much cheaper. The draw for a truely global  TV will be too much. 

[PandJ2020]

---

@Yorkshire+Woodman wrote:

Yes at the moment, but when there are 42,000 satellites there will be so much capacity it will be much cheaper.

---

That's a lot of satellites that need their investment costs recouping...

[Chodley]

---

@Yorkshire+Woodman wrote:

Yes at the moment, but when there are 42,000 satellites there will be so much capacity it will be much cheaper. The draw for a truely global  TV will be too much. 

---

Ground based capacity will still be a lot cheaper

what is a "truly global TV"? if it means our TV will be like America's, that's about as compelling as toenail removal without anaesthetic.

You think countries and companies won't still control broadcast authority and rights on a market basis?

[PeterT]

Agree 100% - streaming TV would be stressful without high speed FTTC - which is unlikely to cover whole of UK.

For a large part of rural UK, we are unlikely to get full fibre FTTP, so broadband will not be a good option. Also, the user interface using SKY Q satellite dishes is so much more slick / instantaneous than using a broadband inteface like Sky Glass. At the moment, whenever I use Amazon Prime (not that often) I get really annoyed at the slow, clunky response times to rewind / fastforward / change channel, etc; broadband for TV watching just does not have the finesse of the instant and accurate Sky Q responses.

[PeterT]

It should not depend "on the day". Satellite dish tech is proven for all to use in pretty much whatever the location in the UK.

[Laing1]

---

@PeterT wrote:

It should not depend "on the day". Satellite dish tech is proven for all to use in pretty much whatever the location in the UK.

---

@PeterT It may well be proven technology but Sky cannot afford to pay for new satellites and as the currently used satellites run out of fuel at the end of this decade there will be no satelittes for Sky to use