Thread: An email from Neil Berkett re: VM HD Channels
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Old 23-01-2019, 18:48   #143
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Re: An email from Neil Berkett re: VM HD Channels
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Originally Posted by akki007 View Post
I sent this to Neil Berkett today at 15:52:

"Mr Berkett,

In early December 2008 you announced “To date our HD content is limited, we only have a couple of HD channels today and we will be launching four channels over the next three months.â€

Please could you clarify whether or not you were in fact referring to 4 non-HD channels being launched in the three month period following this announcement. I assume this is what you were referring to as the three month period has now passed and to date the only HD linear channel available on the Virgin Media platform is BBC HD.

I look forward to your response coming soon.

Kind regards

Aaron Atkinson
Loyal and long standing Virgin Media customer."

At 16:35 I received this:

"No I was referring to HD channels which was absolutely our intention. We are negotiating as we speak and will be launching 6 or seven channels at once shortly

Neil Berkett | Chief Executive Officer
Virgin Media"

I did post this in another thread but it is mangled in with other info and I thought it deserved a thread of it's own for discussion.
How things change! Now it seems to be the balance on the number of HD channels is starting to move in Virgin's favour. Is this a trend that will continue, I wonder? Seems an extraordinary move to me.

https://www.a516digital.com/2019/01/...-sky.html#more

A+E Networks UK has pulled the HD version of the female-skewing lifestyle and entertainment*channel Lifetime.

Sky viewers will now only be able to access the standard definition version of the channel, which appears on channel 164. Until Thursday 24th January 2019, the HD channel will temporarily reside on channel 838 before disappear altogether.

TVPlayer, Virgin Media UK and BT TV continue to promote an HD option for the channel.
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