Posts by Stanley Pointen
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Sign me up to the Club too. I just called Sky. It seems that you can indeed get the HD mySky for $49 if you are not a current mySky subscriber, but you then have to pay $15 a month for the box and the $10 a month for the service, ongoing. Added to my already $81 a month for basic, sport and movies, that makes $106 a month or $1,272 a year! I will pass on it too.
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Russell, if I understand this correctly, the cost to upgrade to HD for people with the current digital box, which is most people, will be $599 plus $10 a month on the subscription? The Sky TV website has no detail beyond promotional information about the wonders of HD. While I can accept that there is a benefit in having the HD 'mySky' features, and paying for that, how can they possibly justify an increase in the monthly charges? It seems a good old fashioned rort to me.
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The Lange Douglas civil war certainly involved many more senior staffers than Margaret Pope and Bevan Burgess, who by the way was a talented operator, certainly better than anyone in the Lange camp. The suggestion that Pope was simply a hand maiden to Lange is the re-write of history, not the other way around. Looking back, for all of his great qualities, Lange was not a political strategist, and because of this was easily outflanked by the other side. If I'm not mistaken, the Caucus reinstated Douglas back into the Cabinet after Lange sacked him.
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"I really don't get why people see sport coverage as some sort of essential right. It's just another form of entertainment."
Kyle, sport is not just entertainment. In this country, it is a cultural icon; a big part of our national psyche. Remember the reaction to the New Zealand performance at the last rugby world cup? The Highlanders have clearly turned you off sport entirely.
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Eddie, give me a break. The basic Sky package including sports is $65 a month, or $15 a week. Those who call this a 'sports tax' are right on, in my opinion. I guess people could have given themselves a $15 a week tax cut by dropping Sky and not have to wait for Cullen's cuts in October! But then again, they would not have access to live top grade sport - other than netball and some motor racing. Sky is a monopoly provider in this regard, and should be broken up or at least made to play fair. I resent having to pay these rogues even increasing amounts of money every month. Regulation is much cheaper than taxpayer subsidy or a major taxpayer captial injection. And as for the Commerce Commission, last time I looked our media ownership rules are non-existent, unlike most other civilised jurisdictions.
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Legbreak, you are on to it. I repeatedly complained to Sky TV when they failed to show some rugby matches live on the sports channels yet showed them live on the Rugby Channel, only to be offered the Rugby Channel at extra cost. Watching live Kiwi sport has become an elitist pastime if you cannot afford Sky TV. And Simon A is right to consider if the current levels of child and youth obesity is linked to the absence of sport coverage on free to air TV.