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Originally Posted by efc85
Never mind the HD ,buy a decent japanese plasma and you wont be fussed.Still no red button!!!!!At the time of the agreement people on here were saying august,then the start of the champions league,then the new year now april.Doubt this is going to happen at all,we're missing content here not just marginally improved picture quality.
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In fairness to VM it wasn't them that said red button would launch in August 2010, it was the same people who said SSN HD and Sky1 HD were launching in August 2010. Just rumours.
It has been confimed by staff that a lot of technical work has been carried out both by VM and Sky to provide the red button (if anyone has seen the service on Sky they will realise it is a very sophisticated application, far more so than anything we have now) so hopefully it will be here soon.
Sky themselves have also said it will launch in 2011.
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Nope.
At time Virgin sold they channels to Sky - the only HD Channels own by Sky was:
Sky Movies HD (bar Sky Movies Classic HD)
Sky Sports HD (bar Sky Sports News HD)
Sky 1 HD
Sky Real Lives HD
Sky Arts HD Channels
So Virgin need to sign an new deal with BSkyB to carry the following Channels:
Sky 3 +1,
Sky Atlantic SD and HD,
Sky Livingit HD,
Sky News HD,
Sky Sports News HD and
Sky Movies Classic HD.
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Sky News HD fully launched on the day of the election, 6 May 2010. The deal to sell VMtv was announced 4 Jun 2010 but I assume all the work would have been done well before that date.
I don't think anyone knows whether the deal only covered the existing channels or if there was an option for future channels, only top level staff seem to know and of course they are not telling, more's the pity!!