[Horizon]

By my own records there have been no new channel launches since the 7th October last year when UK Gold was replaced and split into two channels Watch and G.O.L.D. I am excluding the return of Sky's basic channels on the 13th November as they weren't "new".

Yes, On Demand is wonderful (when it works..) and there has been new developments such as ITV Player launching on it. But most people still prefer as wider selection of channels as possible and as usual throughout the whole era of cable tv, we are shortchanged. Even basic channels such as the ITV+1s which are available on Freeview are missing and VM have yet to restore removed channels such as More 4 +1 or UK History +1 (now Yesterday +1) which are channels I would really like to see return.

And with the announcement that VM is still shifting its debt around (my interpretation of a press release issued the other day) what should be a strong platform, is still bogged down in a sea of debt, an average EPG (I'm being kind here...) lacking even some basic functions and a poor choice of channels, things don't seem to be looking too good for VM. And I won't even go into the HD debate...

That said, I don't know anyone else who has rolled out 50mb broadband across the country, so VM are good at some things, just wish the same efforts were put on its tv platform too.