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Originally Posted by Mad Max
By all means give us more HD, but get rid of the dross and make room for more quality shows in HD.
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Indeed, although it'll not come to the choice between one or the other. Once the available space is fully utilised there are further efficiencies to be made.
As far as I can tell (per Virgin website) there are 30 HD channels being broadcast in the same package as their SD counterpart (that is to say - there shouldn't be anyone out there now that needs the SD channel to be on air at all if VM have removed the SD boxes on schedule). I haven't for these purposes included the main channels of BBC/ITV/C4 and Five, or considered legacy packages that I'm sure Virgin could swap the HD versions into or migrate the customer to a new package by retentions.
BBC News
BBC Four
Cbeebies
CBBC
Paramount
4 Seven
Quest
BT Sport 1
BT Sport 2
BT Sport 3
BT Sport ESPN
Crime & Investigation
Discovery
Animal Planet
Nat Geo Wild
National Geographic
H2
History HD
Nick HD
Sky Cinema Premiere
Sky Cinema Hit
Sky Cinema Greats
Sky Cinema Disney
Sky Cinema Family
Sky Cinema Action & Adventure
Sky Cinema Comedy
Sky Cinema Crime & Thriller
Sky Cinema Drama
Sky Cinema Sci-Fi
Sky Sinema Select
Further to this if Sky absorbing the 'HD charge' for Sky Sports into the main subscription cost follows onto the Virgin network we can add a further 8:-
SS Main Event
SS Premier League
SS Football
SS Cricket
SS Golf
SS F1
SS Action
SS Arena
If things get really desperate there are 48 '+1' channels (again, on their website not from a scan). By that point I'm sure the V6 would be well established and between six tuners and on demand I'm not sure the majority of +1s will justify their existence. An outdated idea going back to single tuners and the terrestrials trying to corner Freeview.