Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Dave HD is now on channel 194

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Can't all the SD Sky Cinema channels be removed as HD as been included as standard for over a year now.

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Up till recently there have been people with SD only boxes. Now that they're being removed I guess it may be possible to remove SD only versions where they're not needed.

Though depends on the contract agreements as well I'd think.

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Yes, it appears to have picked all of mine up too :)

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Surely it's the same for the SD BT Sport channels once the SD boxes are gone they can go. Any idea how many SD boxes left? Is there a deadline set?

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Don't know, they can't be that many now. There will come a point where it's more cost effective for them to lose the few customers who can't or won't upgrade in order to free up more bandwidth by turning off the SD channels they don't need to have.

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So nameless faceless individuals who previously “released” information they thought was unverifiable have, upon being challenged, decided to back away from saying anything.

I for one think that’s a good thing. If it can’t be corroborated it’s unhelpful to have meaningless analysis based upon it, such as your assertion that there is only space for 4 HD channels - a statement verifiably false.

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+1 is not in HD - do customers still have to pay a premium for the HD versions?

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I don't think the SD versions of Dave and Gold will be closed on VM, they will just move to different EPG slots, otherwise all Player customers would lose access to these channels because the HD versions are for Mix customers and up.

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There will come a point when HD is the norm and UHD only commands the premium pricing. That day can't be too far away now.

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I'm sure people that have HD wouldn't care about the plus one going or relaunched in HD. Sky cinema comes with HD channels no extra fees. Extra fee only applies to sky sports

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More nonsense from you, it's becoming clear that you simply like arguing for the sake of it.

The information about there being only four HD channels left will now be out of date, there will be even less now as a result of the new HD channels and the return of the UKTV HD channels and I imagine that will be gone when GOLD HD is added, so it will be interesting to see what VM do to free up more space as there won't even be room for an HD Red Button service.

For completeness, most VM channels were converted to 256-QAM from 64-QAM a long time ago, the only ones that haven't are for VM services, such as TiVo downloads.

You have spoilt it for the rest of the people on this forum, well done you.

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That’s another statement that’s verifiably untrue. There are TV channels being broadcast on 64 QAM multiplexes. If you record BBC 1 HD (in my area) this can be verified in the V6 diagnostic menu. Someone with the time or inclination could go through the entire EPG and give us numbers.

Far from spoiling it testing the veracity of the information provided by these nameless, faceless sources.

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I think that VM are gradually moving away from viewing HD as a premium product with the news that GOLD HD & Dave HD will be in the Mix pack and above. I wonder why they won't be moving the other UKTV HD channels down, perhaps they will??

If UKTV have accepted less, perhaps part of the deal was for their HD channels to move down. AIUI, some channels in Full House receive a cut in the subscription fee and, for the HD channels at least, this helps to pay for the extra cost in providing them that cannot be recouped in any other way.

Without this extra income, there wasn't much of an incentive for broadcasters to create new HD channels; adverts on them don't raise any extra and any new viewers they attract will be mostly taken away from the SD version. As time has moved on, old equipment become obsolete and costs have fallen, I now imagine that it's harder not to create programming in HD! Initially, to increase the switch to HD, it was left for VM and Sky to subsidise the creation of HD channels in return for exclusivity periods on their own platform.

I suppose those on Player will just have to manage with the SD +1 versions, I doubt VM will keep SD channels open just for those on the 'free' TV pack which they lose money on.

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It would seem very odd not to have converted them all in every area, as this would mean that there would be less channels in your particular area; somethiñg that VM doesn't do.

Anyway, the salient point is that capacity is now further to it's maximum limit than ever. I'm not suggesting that VM will actually run out of capacity, more wondering what they will do to get their existing infrastructure to work better for them.

Perhaps they will bring TSID's 36 & 37 back into use for HD expansion or escalate the SD channel switch off programme?? Who knows.

They must have something up their sleeves as they have said that the replacement channels introduced to compensate for the loss of the UKTV channels will remain and the return of the UKTV channels would have been the ideal excuse to dump a lot of them, though I suppose that contractual agreements will come into play.

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He has not spoilt anything a forum is about debate.