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Originally Posted by TMLeafs
I'm sure people that have HD wouldn't care about the plus one going or relaunched in HD. Sky cinema comes with HD channels no extra fees. Extra fee only applies to sky sports
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I think that VM are gradually moving away from viewing HD as a premium product with the news that GOLD HD & Dave HD will be in the Mix pack and above. I wonder why they won't be moving the other UKTV HD channels down, perhaps they will??
If UKTV have accepted less, perhaps part of the deal was for their HD channels to move down. AIUI, some channels in Full House receive a cut in the subscription fee and, for the HD channels at least, this helps to pay for the extra cost in providing them that cannot be recouped in any other way.
Without this extra income, there wasn't much of an incentive for broadcasters to create new HD channels; adverts on them don't raise any extra and any new viewers they attract will be mostly taken away from the SD version. As time has moved on, old equipment become obsolete and costs have fallen, I now imagine that it's harder
not to create programming in HD! Initially, to increase the switch to HD, it was left for VM and Sky to subsidise the creation of HD channels in return for exclusivity periods on their own platform.
I suppose those on Player will just have to manage with the SD +1 versions, I doubt VM will keep SD channels open just for those on the 'free' TV pack which they lose money on.
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Originally Posted by jfman
That’s another statement that’s verifiably untrue. There are TV channels being broadcast on 64 QAM multiplexes. If you record BBC 1 HD (in my area) this can be verified in the V6 diagnostic menu. Someone with the time or inclination could go through the entire EPG and give us numbers.
Far from spoiling it testing the veracity of the information provided by these nameless, faceless sources.
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It would seem very odd not to have converted them all in every area, as this would mean that there would be less channels in your particular area; somethiñg that VM doesn't do.
Anyway, the salient point is that capacity is now further to it's maximum limit than ever. I'm not suggesting that VM will actually run out of capacity, more wondering what they will do to get their existing infrastructure to work better for them.
Perhaps they will bring TSID's 36 & 37 back into use for HD expansion or escalate the SD channel switch off programme?? Who knows.
They must have something up their sleeves as they have said that the replacement channels introduced to compensate for the loss of the UKTV channels will remain and the return of the UKTV channels would have been the ideal excuse to dump a lot of them, though I suppose that contractual agreements will come into play.