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Originally Posted by zantarous
I don't claim to know the process well but the hard part is getting the channel on the air, once they are on a satellite there is very little for Virgin to do other then agree a price. Their uplink will come from the same place as sky.
All their channels either come from a Satellite feed or DTT.
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I seem to remember being told on the forums that VM take some line feeds.
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Originally Posted by HD Boy
Sky Movies Classics HD and 4 UKTV HD channels is coming to Virgin Media in October Confirmed.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...7&postcount=15
I sent a email asking is the the test channel Sky Movies Classics HD
What is Virgin Media testing then ?
Is it possible i could be 2 channels that are testing in 1 stream a SD channel and a HD channel or is it a sky sports red button stream ?
I think Sky Movies Classics HD will launch on channel 441
Sky Sports News HD and Sky News HD can not be far away then |
Well spotted. "other purposes" seems to suggest red button or interactive to me. You'd think that if it was "another channel" (as opposed to Sky Movies Classics HD), he would have said that.
"We are going to be launching a number of HD channels in October. This includes four channels from UKTV which we will be announcing shortly. We will also be launching Sky Movies Classic HD in October. That will mean that we will have 36 HD channels of which over 19 are included for free as part of our TV packs".
How many premium and non premium channels are there atm? I've counted 19 non premium and 1 premium (ESPN) available on XL, 2 premium sports and 11 premium movies. Add on the 5 known to be coming in October and that leaves 38. Have I got that right, it doesn't seem to add up!