Sky movies!

Post by **ShyViolet** » March 15th, 2007, 4:11 am

I found the homepage to "Sky" the British TV channel that shows American stuff!

http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/home

Cool, looks like you guys have everything!

Also, apparently you're getting the Disney Channel again, as well as Disney Cinematical? (I would still kill to have this channel!

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Post by **Ben** » March 15th, 2007, 7:47 am

Sky isn't so great, and they play bully tactics with their compeditors here.

I get my cable/broadband/phone, etc, through Virgin Media and recently Sky wanted to charge double prices for their basic channel while forcing Virgin to back down on prices for their channels on the Sky satallite platform.

So negotiations broke down and now Virgin have lost Sky One, which shows Lost and 24. Luckily, I'm having these taped for me by a friend, so no great shakes there.

The movie channels, which we do keep, are not bad, but they show the same old titles for a year or more, most of which I've either seen or have on DVD. And Disney Cinemagic has the BIGGEST bottom left logo I've ever seen on a premium pay channel and usually show pan-and-scan versions of their widescreen films...they couldn't make it more harder for fans to get stuff "for free" and making them go out and buy a disc if they want the original framing and without their giant logo.

Apart from that, Virgin offers ALL the same channels as the Sky packages, so I'm watching Heroes on Sci-Fi and we get ABC1 which shows Disney shows. And we never stopped getting Disney Channel and Cinemagic...?

Sky is trying to corner their own market. Apart from annoying Virgin Media customers, they are taking their channels off Freeview, the stand-alone digital TV box we have here for a one-off payment, and will be launching their own digibox at Christmas, but without some other channels that they can't get clearence for, which doesn't make sense.

For a long time they were the dominant non-terrestrial operator, but several companies have united under the rebranded Virgin Media and are posing a big threat to them. Rather than work things out, they're becoming more aggressive. Virgin has a great On Demand service though, with 500 additional films, re-runs of the week's best TV and many previous seasons of shows like Alias, Lost and soon 24, so all is not "lost".

Sky is just a platform...not the be all and end all of TV. And their £26 per month deal is a marketing rip-off. I pay £30 for eveything all in, but Sky want £26 for their deal, PLUS £11 for a landline phone connection, a £40 set up fee, and additional pricing for package bolt-ons and additional channels. All of which is hidden in grayed-out, small print on their ads.

We have "everything", but not just because of Sky.

Post by **ShyViolet** » March 15th, 2007, 8:17 am

Hmmm.....interesting!

Actually, I think I was a little confused, I misunderstood your statement on the Mickey's Clubhouse thread:

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 11:03 am

Toon Disney stopped broadcasting here in the UK this part March.

We now have something fairly cool: Disney Cinemagic, which plays all the classic features and rubbish sequels, and live-action Disney flicks. Best thing is in-between the movies, we get the good Disney TV shows (Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Tarzan) and a great many "Classic Toons".

Post by **Ben** » March 15th, 2007, 8:45 am

Yes, Toon Disney was Toon Disney, not The Disney Channel.

We still get Disney Channel and now Disney Cinemagic INSTEAD of Toon Disney.

Post by **ShyViolet** » March 15th, 2007, 5:46 pm

Sounds great....I still think you're really lucky!!

Post by **Jeroen** » March 15th, 2007, 5:50 pm

Too bad we get nothing of the sort here.
Disney channel does not excist over here,
not even in our digital tv pack

Post by **Daniel** » March 17th, 2007, 3:33 am

No Disney at all? Wow, that stinks, Z!

Post by **Meg** » March 17th, 2007, 8:50 am

Eh. You're really not missing much.

Post by **Jeroen** » March 17th, 2007, 9:01 am

We do have a program called disney festival wich will show one show every day.

So we do have house of mouse, kimm possible, aladdin, all that stuff
But no seperate channel

Post by **Daniel** » March 17th, 2007, 3:45 pm

At least its better than nothing, but its still seems unfair for you.

Meg wrote:Eh. You're really not missing much.

So true.

Thank goodness for Kim Possible!

Post by **ShyViolet** » May 2nd, 2007, 8:06 pm

Re: News story

Playhouse Disney cartoon interrupted with porn

Around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, a couple was intrigued when their five-year-old son asked for an explanation regarding what was on television. To the parents’ shock, an episode of the Playhouse Disney series Handy Manny had been interrupted by hardcore pornography. As it turned out, the programming mishap was made by Comcast, rather than Disney, with the event being limited to a New Jersey facility. Courier-Post Online has more on this story.

Posted by Josh | Link

Oh my G-d....this is soo.....yuck.

So weird...

IMHO it's just further proof that Eisner KNEW what he was doing when he didn't want Comcast to buy Disney back in 2004....

Post by **ShyViolet** » May 2nd, 2007, 8:59 pm

I get my cable/broadband/phone, etc, through Virgin Media

Just wondering: it that the same as Virgin publishing that came out with the "New Adventures" original Dr. Who Paperbacks back in the early/mid 90s?

(not Target)

And Disney Cinemagic has the BIGGEST bottom left logo I've ever seen on a premium pay channel and usually show pan-and-scan versions of their widescreen films...they couldn't make it more harder for fans to get stuff "for free" and making them go out and buy a disc if they want the original framing and without their giant logo.

I still want it!!

Better than what we get here....

Maybe I should move to England....

Virgin has a great On Demand service though, with 500 additional films, re-runs of the week's best TV and many previous seasons of shows like Alias, Lost and soon 24, so all is not "lost".

Do you get HBO and HBO on demand as well? I know that all the same films are shown on Sky but what about shows like Sopranos and Entourage??

Post by **Ben** » May 3rd, 2007, 1:18 am

We get those shows on different channels.

Virgin is huge...they have the airline, publishing, the megastore outlets, etc... All part of Richard Branson's empire...