Sky to go terrestrial?

Satellite broadcaster, Sky, has announced plans to broadcast without, er, satellites.It’ll mean losing the free Sky 3, Sky News and Sky Sports News offerings from Freeview. Instead, the precious terrestrial bandwidth will be replaced with four pay-TV channels.The four-into-three shoehorning trick will be achieved by switching from standard MPEG2 broadcasts to more squeezable MPEG4. That means you’ll have to chuck away your current telly box and buy a whole new one from, you guessed it, Sky.The pay-off will be the availability of premium sports and movies channels without the tell-tale dish, although don’t go taking yours down just yet – it still all needs to be approved by Ofcom and transmitter peeps National Grid Wireless.

Sky Terrestrial Pay-TV Contact: Sky Related stories: Virgin Media launches “quadplay” combo

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home