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It was much like the option of buying rotten eggs, or organic rotten eggs.
Either way - it's just rotten eggs

Doug

I remember reading last Decemberish that it had folded, or Bernie pulled the
plug on it. Either way, it won't be back this year.
I never saw it, personally, I'm not a PPV kinda guy, so I don't know if it
was any good.

However - Premiere (german PPV TV) are going to show some kind of
digital multichannel F1 this year. It looks as if they are financing
it themselves and will probably try to sell it to other PPV companies.
Hopefully the'll get C***Digital (scandinavian PPV) as a customer.

Cheers,

/Martin

Oh - if it had been available - I'd sure as hell have got it.

Hold on - at 12 - roughtly 2 - to 3x the average European price, I wouldnt.
I'd have told Bernie to stick it.

Thats why it failed in the UK.  The total market available was only Sky
Digital subscribers - and of those, most were never going to pay 12 a race.
It was just too much.

Doug

Once again, they try to make too much money in too short a time and end up
cancelling the service due to lack of interest. I wonder why. This always
seems to be the case in the UK. It's called greed.

I did hear in the press, however, that they were going to make the digital
feeds available to the terrestrial stations. Unfortunately, here in the UK,
ITV's record of interactive services is rather appaling. If the BBC were
showing it I think things would be different. You have only got to look back
to the world cup. The BBC's digital coverage was IMHO superb, ITV however
had no interactive content at all.

No - they're not even taking the hardware to each track that was used to
make the digital feeds

Doug

I am a disappointed fan, once again we pay the price for Bernies
greed.

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:39:53 -0000, "Iain Mackenzie"