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Originally Posted by mersey70
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A lot of Sky customers suspected this was going to happen when they changed the structure of the HD pack but it didn't happen, a rough calc says they generate about £300m a year from the HD charge, I personally don't think the charge will be dropped anytime soon but we will see.
If they did drop their charge but insisted VM customers paid it I think even the pretty ineffective OFCOM would intervene.
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Now that Sky issue HD boxes to new customers as standard (like VM), more and more customers will be able to view the HD variants (even without an HD TV).
I can see Sky closing the SD channels that have a HD variant and dropping the HD charge.
I would assume that the lost revenue would be more than offset by the savings in transmission costs and payments to Astra.
As VM own their transmission system, they wouldn't save as much by doing this, but it would free up capacity and EPG space.