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Originally Posted by moroboshi
I would say anyone who needs such channels watches far, far too much TV. I barely watch a couple of hours of TV a week, and often watch no TV at all. It's wall to wall garbage.
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Believe it or not, to a great extent I agree with you. I don't watch a vast amount of TV by any means. But, as I don't own a PVR, I do find +1 channels useful for the odd occasion when I find something I do want to watch, when it's already about halfway through. It's good to be able to go away and do something else for half an hour and then come back and see the thing from the beginning.
That argument doesn't work in the context of HD on Virgin of course, because you can't receive HD without a V+ which is also a PVR, so the need for HD+1 channels is reduced, unless, as I said earlier, you're a real telly addict and doing a lot of watching/recording. However it is possible to buy a non-PVR HD receiver for Freesat, so a few HD+1 channels on that platform would be useful.