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Old 01-05-2013, 08:39   #939
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
I have visions of VM calling Sky to complain that their digi box at the headend has not been upgraded to the Animal Planet HD package
Nope. There is no satellite decoder for this one. Animal Planet HD is received by landline.

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Originally Posted by jj20x View Post
This isn't a new channel and testing could have started sooner
Testing started as soon as the landline was available.

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Originally Posted by jj20x View Post
you'd have thought that with that experience they would have tested a little earlier for this launch. Oh, you know, sometime before releasing the channel details to the press.
Doing that would have delayed launch by weeks.

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Originally Posted by jj20x View Post
TLC HD, however, is a new channel from the same broadcaster and launched on VM without any "technical problems".... kinda odd dontchya think?
Not really. Every channel has its own broadcast equipment, that can be faulty or not.
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