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Originally Posted by synner
How exactly have Sky "ruined" any chance of Virgin having HD ?
From a quick and dirty tally, there are at least 13 HD channels not owned by Sky (according to Media Boy's list on page 1).
Virgin have had the rights to broadcast Channel4HD for over a year now.... Where is it ?
At the time of the TVDrive launch, there were posters everywhere stating "Virgin 1, Sky 0 - HD only on Virgin" - so, Virgin were actually first to market with an HD product, as everyone seems to blame Sky for "Locking in" HD channels to an exclusive contract (no evidence ever given for this theory that I have seen), what was stopping Virgin locking in these same channels ?
If Sky has "Locked in" these channels as an exclusive, then isn't that just good business sense for them ?
Do you not think it comes down to the fact that Virgin have been very reluctant to spend any money on the TV side of things and that they simply do not have the bandwidth available to broadcast HD MPEG 2 streams in all areas ?
Do you not think that Neil Berkett's comments that Virgin were not interested in linear HD channels (made last year sometime I believe) may have actually been closer to the truth ?
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go have a q1uick count on how many of them sky have stsakes in you find the numbers drops to just maybe 3 or 4 avaiable
i aint saying that virgin shouldnt have hd just it isnt as easy people think and it isnt virign faults.
for the record it was telewest not virign who did that advert