Pic and choose with Sky
Friday, February 29th, 2008TV company trials prospective hardware
Sky have reportedly finished testing out the digital receivers for their proposed Picnic service, with Sky employees now trialling the system in their home.
The service is delivered a la Freeview, and will use its own branded set-top box with the Sky Picnic logo (pictured) subject to Ofcom’s approval. The receiver comes with MPEG-4 encoding, which will apparently be used for HD support.
The Picnic moniker refers to the customers the freedom to pick and choose what they want from Sky, be that, fixed line calls service, broadband, or digital TV. It appears that Picnic will be launched as a sister product to SeeSpeakSurf, with the Freeview-plus Sky channels TV package an alternative to the full blown 800+ channel satellite TV service.
As there will be no engineer required to fix a dish, Sky are thought to be pitching Picnic as a self-install affair. The updated Netgear DG834GT ADSL router that comes with the Picnic broadband tentacle comes with a handy set-up CD to guide those of us who are less tech-savvy through the process. Let’s hope it’s
February 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
“Who are you?”
“Flash Gordon. Quarterback. New York Jets.”
Genius!
February 15th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Classic, I haven’t seen Flash Gordon in years!
A He-Man look-a-like who has to battle an evil emperor named Ming the Merciless, you just can’t make this stuff up!
February 15th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
When the hell does Kenny Baker turn up in Flash Gordon?
February 15th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
‘Flash I love you!, but we’ve only got 15 hours to save the earth!’
I will be turning on, tuning in, and most definitely dropping out to this!
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February 16th, 2008 at 8:53 am
What are you talking about? Film 4 had American Psycho on Saturday. Surely that wins.
“The mud soup and the charcoal arugula are outrageous here.”
February 18th, 2008 at 8:58 am
According to wikipedia, Kenny Baker makes an appearance and is credited as “Throne room dwarf (yellow)”.