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Discussion topic: When will Sky stop using satellite TV?

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Re: When will Sky stop using satellite TV?

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@andrewuk99 wrote:

 

When was the last sky had a total outage?

it only take on truck drive to knock a pole down it down in your area or a digging to cut a cable

 

As noted several times above, the key factor isn't the reliability or otherwise of different transmission methods: it's the absolute end of life of the current orbiting broadcast-only platforms when these expend the last of their on-board positioning propellant, and the unlikelihood of anyone being prepared to invest in what's essentially a 1990s technology to launch a new fleet as a replacement.

 

Yes, individual properties are going to find their 'television signal' fails more often when it's arriving over broadband: that's something we're just going to have to get used to.

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