Originally Posted by Begize

Sorry but the fact that Sky Deutschland is part owned by the same company as BSkyB and Sky Italia is completely owned by the same company as BSkyB does mean they have "something to do" with BSkyB in my book, the common Sky branding being the most obvious.

But, like I said, the HD channels in question are not the UK ones as other posters seemed to have assumed and therefore it has little or no meaning to us VM subscribers at the moment.