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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I would have thought that Virgin wouldhaveto invest in more infrastructure anyway before long, to accommodate its new UHD channels. I really don't think space is an issue for that reason.
As for the UKTV dispute landing up in the courts, I don't think there is a case for that.
With the Sky dispute, it was Virgin taking Sky to court because it wanted reasonable terms to carry the channels.
This time it's UKTV who appear aggrieved, but they can't force Virgin to take their channels.
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The calculations that showed that they only had space for four more HD channels included reserved capacity for UHD channels. The new channels added to replace the UKTV channels appeared to be borrowing capacity from the TSID normally added to pop up channels and the UHD TSID was temporarily switched off.
When the UKTV audio & video feeds were removed a few days ago, the UHD TSID was brought back into service and BT 4k appeared.
I doubt there's anything to stop UKTV taking VM to court for, what they believe to be, reasonable terms to carry their channels.
They could argue that the new proposed deal was so unreasonable so as to constitute effectively forcing them off the platform.
The same thing could have been said about Sky not being able to be forced to supply their basic channels to VM.