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Originally Posted by Media Boy
NTL has the best idea ever for GOD - an add on Channel.
(NTL did it before they took over Telewest)
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Yes, I remember that. The God channel was an encrypted stand alone channel, but it was free to add it. I never saw the point of this and they did eventually just add it to all packages.
This used to be the same situation with S4C when Sky digital first started.
I wonder if reasons for this were that the old carriage agreements meant that VM and Sky charged the channels per viewer, or (in the case of S4C) that the channels had to initially pay extra to the programme rights holders for each person watching outside the intended area?
I also remember that when the God Channel started expanding into providing more channels on Sky, they had an odd "encryption" method that used a different system to NDS. The channels were watchable, but had no sound until the subs were paid!
The God channel even had their own digi box, where only "traditional family values" type channels could be received, not sure if this is still going though...
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Originally Posted by Aguero9320
Woo hoo! Finally! After these many months of spec! 
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NHK World did not launch on 1st May
I identified channel 625 on the 30th April at around 10:40pm. |
It' been on my V+ since this time. It looks to be showing programmes, by not launching, do you mean it is/was showing a promo loop?
