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Originally Posted by Chris James
With the exception of regional opt-outs, is there any reason why Virgin cannot discontinue all the SD channels where there are HD alternatives? Seems like BBC4 and BBC News are following BBC2 in dropping the SD channel - Gold was the first to do it. That would free up a load of space!
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One of the main reasons is they are often on different TV packages to the SD versions. E.g. Film4 HD is on Mix and above, standard Film4 is on every package.
I'd imagine there is extra revenue the broadcaster would be giving up, they'd have to decide whether the potential increase in viewers would make up for the lost revenue.
Also if too many channels switched their HD versions down to lower packages there would be less in the more expensive packages to justify the package's existence.