British satellite TV purveyor Sky has been pushing hard lately to expand into new spheres, a desire marked most clearly by its
Sky Player integration with the Xbox 360 Dashboard. Now the company is keeping momentum going with the Sky Mobile TV app for the iPhone. The app itself will come free, but live streaming access to the full selection of Sky news and sports (ESPN included) channels will set you back £6 ($10) a month. That's pretty reasonable value if you're into live Premier League matches, which are typically the highest ticket item on a British TV subscription bill. O2 has sweetened that deal even further by offering a full quarter of a year's worth of free access -- a clear response to Orange's
infraction on its iPhone turf. You can only stream via WiFi for now, but you have to agree that, at this price point, it's a definite step in
the right direction.
[Via
Daily Telegraph]
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posted Nov 11th 2009 4:23AM
Got it! Supposedly no more codes left, but worth a try!
No, not worth it. As an religious follower of the EPL, that's just too much of a monthly charge for a phone. It would be a reasonable charge if a) you could watch all games, b) it was the only way you watched games. But the phone will only be used as a third option after tv and computer. And that doesn't even include the trouble of trying to watch football on a phone with a not so great AT&T connection on a small, small screen.
So, it's vastly over priced and I would never purchase it.