So you wanna watch a good flick with your mum? BSkyB, the British satellite TV broadcaster has
restarted its popular movie download service, after having shut down in August due to a security breach and subsequent patch from Microsoft to fix their DRM. Up until it was shut down, over a million downloads were, well, downloaded, making BSkyB's service Europe's most popular download service to date. Any folks in the UK feel like sharing your experiences with our readers? Is BskyB a good service, and if so what do you like about it? Dislike? What about here in the States? I have pretty much written off the whole idea until someone comes up with a better way to download (except
iTunes). I am biding my time until then, what about you?
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Subscribe to commentsBob JonesNov 7th 2006 8:26AM
Its quick and easy, the choice of movies isn't fantastic but its good enough (for free) and I have found some good movies online.
I would imagine Rupert Murdochs DirectTV could do something very simmilar in the US.
Alistair GellanNov 7th 2006 9:08AM
It's an okay program. Not so happy about the Kontiki(sp?) p2p service that it installs in the background, serving up movies whenever your computer is connected to the internet, whether you're running the movie interface or not.
Another problem is that when using the Sky Broadband movie player, it doesn't seem to disable screensaver/screen standby, even when in fullscreen mode.
That plus its annoying having to redownload a film after 30 days when its going to be available on sky broadband for a whole lot longer than that.
Baxter TocherNov 16th 2006 10:25AM
I think the service is pretty good. There's a reasonable choice of movies, and the quality's impressive. Given that Sky don't charge extra for it, I'm happy.