I have to agree, the current groupings of channels comprising each ntl TV pack do appear to be designed to maximise revenue through "forcing" subscriptions towards the entire digi TV pagages. It may have changed very recently, but I suspect it's no coincidence that Sky One was in one pack, The UK Gold (recently renamed to something obscure) was another pack, E4, yet another and so on. About the only thing you can subscribe to independently is the premium Adult channels
Anyone know if theres a better choice on Sky? For some reason both ntl and Sky seem to delight in obscuring the TV channel packaging groups on their web sites.