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Originally Posted by richard1960
I agree with ESPN part of the XL tv pack at least those that want to see some premiership football get to do so without paying sky sports through the nose and in HD as well also included in the XL sub.
Personally i think virgin will add more HD anyway without the need not to take ESPN off the XL tv pack eventually. As a working person just how much tv can anyone watch i certainly cannot watch all the tv i have at the moment so a lot more channels (sky arts HD excepted  )would mean even more channels i do not have time for,i personally do not watch any of the music channels either at all these days so to me they are a waste of my money however i would not advocate getting rid of as i know a lot of people may watch them.
Anyway a look at the poll above suggests a lot of people value ESPN in the XL tv pack. |
I don't think anyone was suggesting getting rid of any channels, rather perhaps just having a debate on the way the channels are packaged. At least I was and thats what we have done, the results of the poll don't lie. Another consideration was paying extra for HD, it isn't cheap and you get what you pay for.
It's just to me XL is supposedly a package of general entertainment and it's very good indeed. It just that personally it includes too much expensive content that personally we simply do not require and I feel it provides inclusive premium content like ESPN at the expense of general HD content however I am a democrat, I totally accept what most people want and that seems to be the status quo so as has been said maybe it's time for me to leave or at least change my package.
But sadly given my conversation with the CEO's office I lost confidence, rumours can be bandied around but from the horses mouth it wouldn't appear that there will be many new additions in the near future. True Enterainment merely swapping with another of it's channels was a nod in that direction for me. And I hate to bang on about it but Sky Arts HD wasn't a rumour, VM actually said it was joining and now they have changed their mind which is fair enough as things change, it is just a shame I had to ask the CEO to find out.
Unless I completely misunderstood the guy, I hope I did but I doubt it. But given all this lord knows how VM are planning on having 80 HD channels in less than three years, to me it simply dosen't add up but I hope i'm wrong.