Sky Sports HD3/HD4
 

Hi There

Having subscribed to Sky Sports HD1 and HD2 with Virgin Media does anyone have any idea when Sky Sports HD3 and HD4 will be available?

Is there a particular reason Virgin do not have HD3 and HD4 available at present?

And also will upcoming Sky Box Office sporting events such as Boxing and WWE be available to order in HD?

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At present through what I have seen and heard on other forums sky will not make HD3 or HD4 available to virgin unless ofcom force them to. And I doubt very much that any of the box events to be shown either, sky only allowed virgin to get sports 1hd/2hd because ofcom forced them to make them available.

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I think you will find that Sky wants to hang onto 3 and 4 so they can say

"All 5 Sky sports channels in HD only on Sky"

It will not be long before they start there funny business and move major events to 3 and 4 :(

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it would be gd if we get sky sports 3 hd and sky sports 4 hd then i could watch wwe live lol :)

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surely wrestling is better in SD. HD will make the fake hits too clear to see. In up to 5X more detail. You might even see the gap between fist and face. :D

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:D

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Since when has wrestling been fake. lol :p

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If they do then OFCOM will apply the same 'must offer' wholesale conditions to SS3 and SS4. That would potentially open the door for BT Vision to get those channels along with SS1 and SS2 and there's no way Sky will risk that, not after broadcasting those 'pizza slice' adverts which target BT.

Long, long wait I reckon for SS3HD and SS4HD on Cable. I'll add SSN HD to that list as well.

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I am sure we will get it at some point people use to say we would never get Sky Sports xtra all those years ago.

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I would love to know how far in the future SKY would like to dump SD versions of their channels from their EPG, I recon 3 year why would they want duplicate channels one in HD and one in SD

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No way will they start dumping SD channels that soon. It will be years and certainly not till a large majority of their customers have a HD box, currently that is only something like 10% of their customers.

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Sorry where did you get the 10% figure from:confused: In relation to VM for example has I think almost one million V+ customers, I know most want the PVR functionallity but they are HD enabled, and as been stated on this forum it seems replacement for faulty V boxes are now being replaced with new VHD ones

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Didn't Sky pass the 1 million mark last year for HD subscribers? Still small compared to their 10 million customers.

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Sorry it seems 30%
http://corporate.sky.com/media/key_f...nd_figures.htm

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Well still 70% have the SD boxes so still a lot of people have SD boxes.