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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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 
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Nope. There is no satellite decoder for this one. Animal Planet HD is received by landline.
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Originally Posted by jj20x
This isn't a new channel and testing could have started sooner
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Testing started as soon as the landline was available.
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Originally Posted by jj20x
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.
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Doing that would have delayed launch by weeks.
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Originally Posted by jj20x
TLC HD, however, is a new channel from the same broadcaster and launched on VM without any "technical problems".... kinda odd dontchya think?
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Not really. Every channel has its own broadcast equipment, that can be faulty or not.