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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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.
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It's going to take years, and years before the whole of the UK is HD ready. I remember reading recently that only 47% of UK homes have a HDTV. SKY and Virgin will eventually drop SD channels as I'm in no doubt that every UK TV channel will broadcast in HD. Give it 10 years and HD will be the only format.