The tuner "sees" any contigous block of channels it's pointed at, could just as easily be 10 channels of pay-per-view porn and 6 channels of DOCSIS...
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Originally Posted by Kushan
How interesting. Although I do know that Virgin was out of contract with the people who write the firmware. I remember that there was a bug in the firmware a while ago and the issue stayed open for ages as they had to negotiate a new contract in order to get an updated firmware rolled out. Cost about £1 per modem if I recall - so perhaps that's partly why Virgin wanted everyone off them.
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Perhaps. Though the (non-VM) base version of the modem itself had been sold with 8 channels to other customers, they could have just pulled that firmware but would have lost or had to pay extra to stick the VM logo back on it
£1 a modem isn't that bad considering they used to charge £75 for a subsidized Superhub 1...