As we've been saying here on PVR Wire since BT announced the launch of a new IPTV service (scheduled for late 2006), the U.K. telecom giant is facing a tough challenge to successfully (and belatedly) enter the British PVR marketplace.Media Week has taken a closer look at BT's plans, and reports that an unnamed media analyst believes that BT's entry into the market "has come too late" and that Rupert Murdoch's empire is now "unassailable".
The problem lies in the already steady market in the U.K. -- 7.5 million customers already own SkyTV, 2.5 million users currently subscribe to cable and five million have Freeview -- and the difference between technology providers and content providers; BT is merely a technology provider, while BSkyB is both.
