BT wins £897m Champions League deal

[the_tyrant]

This just shows how the future of broadcast TV is in sports.

With anything else, you can just record it, wait for it to show up on netflix, or just pirate it. Only with sports is it impossible for you to skip the ads.

Did you know that if you had a time machine, go back to 1999, instead of investing your life savings in the tech industry, you would make a lot more money if you invested in a pro sports team.

Also, do you guys have something like MLB.tv for the premier league?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB.TV#MLB.tv

I love it, it sure beats traditional TV broadcasts.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

Also, do you guys have something like MLB.tv for the premier league?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB.TV#MLB.tv

I love it, it sure beats traditional TV broadcasts.

I think that's the sort of thing that BT is looking to do, but it's a case of gearing it through our fairly elderly infrastructure, broadband availability is...well, it's getting better, and there's a lot of campaigning to get it out into more rural areas, and we're fully digital now in terms of television broadcasting, so it's working its way there. Just, like with a lot of British things, we've got a lot of old stuff around and it takes time to replace it with new stuff, roads, railways, tower blocks, politicians...