Thread: The VM HD Discussion Thread
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Old 11-03-2009, 20:46   #85
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Re: The VM HD Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic View Post
Plus, don't forget Sky had done deals with some of the broadcasters for exlusive access for a period of time and they also have their own channels in HD, which they hadn't offfered to VM on favourable terms due to wanting an edge over VM.
Sky are not the only source of HD channels and nor do they have exclusive rights with all the HD providers. This is just an excuse.

On the latter point, all VM would have to do is to agree to have a different version of, say, Discovery HD, and this would solve the problem. I seem to recall that about a decade ago there was a different version of one of the channels and this had something to do with rights.

I don't believe for one moment that Sky have a stranglehold over all HD programmes ever made!
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