Sky by broadband

[Attu]

I recieved an email today telling me about Sky by broadband Link, looks interesting.

Andy

[Knyght_byte]

already been discussed a while ago...heh

basically you get a bunch of movies and sports clips/progs to download, however the ressy is lower than normal sky.........but mebbe once they launch HD you will get HD downloads too.....be nice...heh

[Attu]

Must have missed that , i wonder how many people will be sitting at work watching the football on their computers

[richard plumb]

i uninstalled this as quickly as I installed it.

You get OK res movies to watch, but only as long as sky still have the rights to show them (some are a month, others quite a long time).

You can only watch them on the PC, not stream them to a media box or anything

The software it installs 'upgrades' your DRM and net frameworks. Took ages on my PC and it wasn't quite right afterwards.

It also installs a service that runs in the background and works like a Peer to Peer bittorrent client - constantly using your internet bandwidth to share movies you have downloaded with other users (saves Sky bandwidth)

[mentsugi]

Also this can only be used in UK. I travel a lot and hoped that this would allow me to keep up with the latest Premiership results but when I tried logging on from Europe it said I was only connected offline and could only look at my library of movies or football matches

It would appear that the system checks the IP address and if from outside UK it wont allow you to access the latest downloads.