Comments on: Sky’s Response To Technical Issues

By: admin

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:21:34 +0000

Comments on this particular subject have now been blocked to avoid any further arguing between readers. This is a well respected Freesat blog, and whilst we welcome debate, we don’t appreciate abusive comments to each other. We’d hope that everyone is here to promote and help assist the development of the Freesat platform, lets not ruin this.

By: digital

digital — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:54:27 +0000

Please ignore my reference to Glen McFarlane in the above post (#33). After re-reading post #31 I can now see it wasn’t aimed at Nigel but at another contributor… Apologies to Glen for missing the point!

By: digital

digital — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:51:25 +0000

What a twisted view of the world ‘Glen McFarlane’ and ‘steve’ have. Nigel has a job which requires him to be informed, amongst other things, about satellite broadcasting so he passes some of that information on to readers of this blog. Those who don’t like the truth carried in the postings decide that there is some kind of anti-Sky conspiracy afoot. How ridiculous!

How ridiculous also is the statement ‘we all know sky hate freesat and what it stands for’. ‘We all know’? I don’t know that.

I suppose the incredibly helpful website he set up which is dedicated to helping owners of Topfield PVRs is another anti-Sky attack?

By: Nigel Whitfield

Nigel Whitfield — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:30:41 +0000

I decided to find out how the system works, because I think this is an important issue, and also one relevant to the article about Freesat I wrote for the current PCW – and that’s why I posted here, so more people would be informed.

It really is sad that pointing out how something works, and the logic of people actually co-operating over something like adding channels is enough to get me labelled a sky plant; frankly, it says a lot more about the person levelling that baseless accusation than it does about me.

If it makes you happy, while I’ve spoken with Freesat about how the system works, I haven’t spoken with anyone at Sky. I’ve simply done my research.

If you bother to read what I’ve written elsewhere, you’ll see I’m certainly not a defender of Sky. And if I really was in their pay, would I have put just as much effort into defending Freesat against people who claim their launch was a disaster?

But, obviously, you’ve decided anyone who doesn’t subscribe to your world view, and is able to articulate a different viewpoint, must be a Sky plant.

By: Glen McFarlane

Glen McFarlane — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:03:09 +0000

You’re proberbly right. Nigel is proberbly a Sky plant. He’ll proberbly stay away now that you’ve found him out.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:50:53 +0000

if freesat asked all its consumers for £10 a month simply to own and use a pvr what would there reaction be, because sky have brainwashed consumers with it and got away with exactly that. i feel there would be a string of folks ringing ofcom, but i guess sky have labour in there pocket as well so they feel they can do what they like.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:30:31 +0000

quite clearly nigel you have worked in the IT writing sector for many years, and will know all about how corporate bully tactics work in thrusting a product in your face even if its overpriced rubbish, however you stance on knowing exactly how the sky system works and the finer points of freesat makes me believe that you are or have been in direct contact with technical people at sky, hence you worldly knowledge on the subject, with make me believe you are merely a sky plant here and proberbly on other forums, defending the corporate image of your payslip.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:37:08 +0000

Balanced debate is fine, but posts are being monitored. No problem with it continuing, it helps keep the website at the top of google

By: Denis

Denis — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:57:09 +0000

Nigel 0-0 draw !!!!

By: Nigel Whitfield

Nigel Whitfield — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:48:57 +0000

Actually, I’m a writer. If you want a long explanation of how Freesat works, I’ll happily give you something with a lot more detail than I have done. I’ve hardly been verbose – it would be hard to explain what’s actually happening in many fewer words.

It’s up to the admin of the site whether or not they want reasoned contributions and useful information; not anyone else.