[Bigmonty69]

I'm sure something about this has been posted before but I couldn't see anything recent with someone being offered this.

My wife works for Sky as an Accountant. We recently decided to upgrade our bedroom box to Sky HD, which would take us to having 2 HD boxes.

The engineer came out on Saturday and said that he and a select number of higher grade engineers had been on a training course recently for a new product that they had to offer for trialing. The trial had to be offered to 150 households of staff members getting an install. The staff member also had to have Sky Broadband.

The service he described was one for on demand TV, which I am sure I have read about on here before. Basically you get to pick what you want to watch, the box downloads it and lets you watch it when it has calculated it has buffered enough to allow streaming. All the engineer had to do to install this in our house was to run a Ethernet cable from the HD box to our router. He then filled in a form for us to register for the trial. He did caveat this by saying they were warned to say this service would be at least 6-12 months away.

So now I am sitting with a HD box runnign an ethernet cable to my router and waiting on a letter coming through the post from Sky saying the trial has started. What's the bets it's over a year away and it wont work when I start using it!

Let's hope the wife doesn't get itchy feet and want to move jobs.

[Starburst]

Yeah SKY are adapting the NDS/DirecTV VOD type service which was one reason they had to stake their claim to a major national IP network by buying Easynet.
I would read the conditions, pretty sure any posting about the trial on a public forum is frowned upon

[Miss Chief]

Could also be why Sky have scrapped their 'unlimited (but really it's limited) caveat. Can't imagine it would be good for people not on the BB max package unless they have a way of exempoting the VoD service from download allowance.

Shame I'm not at work otherwise I could see about the trial too!