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Originally Posted by Media Boy
I say base on the ITV HD Channels launch on Virgin Media carry on I think AP HD will launch sometime within the next two weeks.
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The delay to the ITV HD channels was supposedly technical as it is a fairly complex process to take an MPEG4 source from satellite, un-encrypt it, convert it to MPEG2, re-encrypt and distribute it to all of the headends. Fair enough in the case of the ITV channels, but you would have thought they would now be prepared for such problems and would have planned ahead.
I'm just guessing but I would have thought it would have been sensible to add the Animal Planet HD channel at the same time as the new Discovery channels. Perhaps that's what VM and Discovery had wanted but if the exclusive deal with Sky still has a short time to run, it wouldn't surprise me if Sky threw a last minute spanner in the works.