Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Does the closing of a analogue area mean more capacity on the network or does the whole network have to close before extra capacity becomes available?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

They will arrive when Sky Sports get the contract to cover the ice skating championship from Hell. ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

No and never

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Whole network I would think

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I wouldn't be so sure about NEVER Sky 1 HD!

Sky aren't going to want Living HD to be VM only. There could easily be a swapsy deal. 1 SKY HD channel for Living HD and the Obvious choice would be Sky1 HD.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

i say the obvious choice is sky sports one of them because it give virgin the abilty to say you can get pl football in hd here to

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

We can already get HD prem league on Virgin though. For free!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Agreed.

Andrew, i don't think SS1 HD is a comparable channel to Living HD, hence why i think it will (if it happens) be Sky1 HD - it's almost like a like for like swap!

Also, i don't think it will be on any "Free package". I think it will be available on XL and maybe a stand alone channel on smaller packages.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Why do we need Sky1 HD for??

We got Channel 4 HD for the Simpsons:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

is the otehr hd channesl standalone? i dnt think it would be either, i agree sky1 for living would be a liek for liek exchange but do you honestly think sky will? they think sky 1 is god heaven an living is for few minor daft people

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The Simpsons is one of those shows that will hardly benefit from being in HD. Add to that it not being in HD on C4HD, and that Sky One has some great shows like Lost, 24, Bones etc., all which benefit from HD.

I would be delighted if one day VM manage to get Sky 1 HD, but obviously I'm not holding my breath.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Oooh, 24 in HD! YEAH!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Virgin should make it VM only just like sky have done with their channels and the way they have done contracts with other HD channels

Virgin get all the channels not owned by sky
then VM starts LIVING HD, VIRGIN HD, GOOD FOOD HD, BRAVO HD and then VM will have some power to get the sky channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It really doesn't matter what VM do. It will take Ofcom to force Sky to change and that isn't going to happen in a hurry, and probably not at all when Cameron is elected as a new Tory administration wouldn't want to mess with Uncle Rupert.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

If that happened then it will go to the European court and Sky will get a far worse deal than ofcom would give them.

The European court would probably seperate the company into a content and platform division, and make sure that the content was freely available to all platforms for the same price as their own platform would pay. That's something ofcom has no desire to do, so it's in Sky's interests to eventually listen to the ofcom ruling (obviously after delaying it as long as is possible) because the other scenario for them is far far worse.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

in a way even if it means another 3 years before we get sky stuff i would rather that happen, because in the end it will solv ethe problem in the long run anything sky develops will be avaible to all at te same price

but they also have to deal with sky and them paying large sums to keep stuff exculive to there platform too