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Originally Posted by moroboshi
I'm the opposite. I have watched VOD maybe 2 or 3 times over all the years it's been running, but now watch HD content almost exclusively. Of course I have little chocie of HD on Virgin so watch what I can on BBC HD and get the rest from blu-ray, game consoles, and other sources. I'll be buying an Apple TV sometime (when my Virgin broadband actually works at a decent speed) and getting lots of HD content there.
I'm all in favour of the idea of VOD, it's the same as Apple TV's service in principle afterall, but I find the lack of content on Virgin's VOD service a total deal killer. It's almost all in SD, and even if I was prepared to watch SD (which I'm not), even then the selection is just abysmal. Personal taste obviously. As an example though, where are the latest seasons of 24, Lost, Fringe, House, Heroes, Mad Men and countless others on VOD? They're not even there in SD, let alone HD.
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VOD is a lot more complicated as Virgin have to go to the programme makers in the US to agree rights for VOD broadcast, its not as simple as asking Sky if we can transmit them.
Same goes for getting HD stuff on VOD although I know they are working on it and currently Sopranos Season 1 is now available in HD VOD.
Over the next few months there will be more content in HD appearing both channels and VOD.
Also the reason for most stuff being SD is that the majority of customers don't have V+ boxes and HD sets.