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<blockquote data-quote="noddyo1" data-source="post: 2895">I think the goverment is happy to let sky have its way, together with the EU they preach against anti-competitive behaviour, but when there is&nbsp; a conflict in long term goals it becomes all talk.Governments in Europe want to modernise television broadcasting but who is going to pay for it? So they are letting companies like sky establish a platform to broadcast with a degree of protection in return for the large investment required,this is why they have not forced the release of the videogurd cam in the Uk.It would be consistant with promotion of anti-competitive behaviour but they know it would not please sky et al.It will be interesting as to when the tide turns against the platform providers&nbsp; as to how many households in the Uk will be locked into sky as a provider for their tv entertainment.We all know that if we take the preachings of the EU goverments inc the UK then we would be free to go to Humax,Nokia,Pace etc buy an stb then buy a videoguard cam together with any other cam and choose which provider we want.This change would be extreemly slow and they know it and thats why we are where we are now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="noddyo1, post: 2895"] I think the goverment is happy to let sky have its way, together with the EU they preach against anti-competitive behaviour, but when there is a conflict in long term goals it becomes all talk. Governments in Europe want to modernise television broadcasting but who is going to pay for it? So they are letting companies like sky establish a platform to broadcast with a degree of protection in return for the large investment required,this is why they have not forced the release of the videogurd cam in the Uk. It would be consistant with promotion of anti-competitive behaviour but they know it would not please sky et al. It will be interesting as to when the tide turns against the platform providers as to how many households in the Uk will be locked into sky as a provider for their tv entertainment. We all know that if we take the preachings of the EU goverments inc the UK then we would be free to go to Humax,Nokia,Pace etc buy an stb then buy a videoguard cam together with any other cam and choose which provider we want.This change would be extreemly slow and they know it and thats why we are where we are now. [/QUOTE]

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