Sky broadband movie & sports downloads go live
You'll remember that in November we brought you news of Sky's new broadband download service for (complete) movies and for sports clips.
A number of us at HEXUS signed up back then, expressing an interest in the Sky by Broadband service - you have to be a Premium subscriber in the UK or Eire to be eligible - and today found emails from Sky in our inboxes telling us the service has gone live.
And, indeed it has. But, from where we're sitting, it's looking a bit patchy.
[Update - please see comments further down giving some stats - things are now looking up!]
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Some downloads seem not to be coming over and those that are, are doing so quite slowly.
The slow downloading may be understandable - the Sky by Broadband service uses a fancy DRM-protected peer-to-peer file-sharing system and the first people working with it may only have a few others to share with.
But we're still trying to figure out why some stuff isn't coming over (surely, we're not being restricted to downloading one file at a time?).
We'll be looking into this through the rest of the day and will also be reporting back with details on what was involved in setting up the service.