Thread: General Changes to Virgin TV (2022)
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Old 26-01-2022, 19:25   #262
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Re: Changes to Virgin TV (2022)

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
Are the Nations in SD outside their own areas to save on capacity? I didn't think that they had any capacity issues after all the changes they had made??
I would say they are just supplementary services like +1 channels and don't merit carriage in HD. I wouldn't say that there are capacity issues. TS11 is empty other than the unknown channel aka BBC Red Button 5 which Media Boy has found on digitalbitrate. From the data on that site, the service doesn't seem to have been added yet, it links to a slate. It's unlikely to be BBC Red Button 5, it is just using its old SID number. I guess the BBC Red Button 5 placeholder and perhaps the BBC Red Button 2 to BBC Red Button 6 range will shortly be moved to placeholder SID numbers outside the normal range before the mystery service is revealed.

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Originally Posted by cheekyangus View Post
They'll still want to use a little as possible in case they want to reassign space for broadband provision I'd imagine.
Well, there's that but they have given up (I think) 20 transport streams over the last few years.

I understand they are testing other methods of delivery that could save quite a lot of "spectrum".
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