[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Chad

There has been some speculation over at TV Forum about what is coming soon.

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom...27695/page-540

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom...27695/page-541

There is a suggestion that the main TV bulletins at 1 o'clock, 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock will be in HD from early March. The BBC News channel will launch in HD a few weeks later.

Reported sources for this information is a leaked Powerpoint presentation plus Tweets from BBC employees.

It wouldn't surprise me if VM were suddenly offered Sky News HD as a result of this.

Originally Posted by Jameseh

Guess that is what the BBC are using the (current) spare Freeview HD slot for then.

It makes sense if they cannot sell it, cost effective too as the HD infrastructure is already in place and there will be no rights issues.

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan

Liberty Global (can I call them LG?) have no intention of changing VM's current relationship with Sky, who I'm sure would want to keep the HD versions of SS3, SS4 and SSF1 as unique selling points to potential Sky customers.

What might change is LG's ability to bid for content on a European basis - even then, the existing contracts for that content would have to expire, and I imagine that most of the 'good' ones are currently held by Sky.

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Cloud PVRs are the future. One would hope that any long-term content deals that VM are considering/signing would take that into account. We don't want another MRS-style scenario where only a handful of channels can be recorded into the cloud.

Indeed, we may see VM owning some of it's own channels again under the ownership of LGI.