Sky has busily been announcing new services over the past couple of days. But there are a couple of issues with some of their new services.
The big new service today is the availability of some of their films to be downloaded to PCs owned by subscribers. The only problem there is that it’s seemingly limited to subscribers who have Windows Media Centre PCs which is still quite a small subset of the overall population. Still, an interesting service, even if it’s not clear whether or not the video can be transferred to other devices aside from the PC itself.
The other announcement was the launch of a Sky News video podcasting
service. The press release notes that this service is available for iPods and other “multimedia players”. But the reality is that this is correctly formatted for the video iPod only and no other device. It wouldn’t take much to make it work on a PSP too would it?