seamless, my foot. won't really notice, also my foot.
As we've discussed on digitalfernsehen.de, why can't there just be Europe-wide pay tv... I and many others would gladly pay a certain amount every month to get Freesat. Rights holders are worried about TV content from other countries spoiling their profits in markets that that content isn't intended for. Well, that's easy to fix, just give us a reasonable monthly subscription price for Freesat and we will pay... and then broadcast it per Internet broadband, which would mean minimal overhead costs compared to satellite transmission.
I, for one, would much rather pay a bit more to have Freesat instead of some overpriced Sky Germany package where I probably wouldn't ever watch most of the channels anyway.