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Originally Posted by RegularCapital
While this is true, but it's also a double edged sword as it wastes capacity that could otherwise be used for more "attention grabbing" and "subscriber attracting" channels, it also gives the illusion that there's more (quality) channels.
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I think that the only channel that VM now doesn't have that would be attention & subscriber grabbing would be Sky Atlantic. Even AMC & MTV Classics are pretty niche channels.
A shortage of capacity preventing the launch of new channels is no longer an issue. Despite the total capacity being reduced, VM are taking steps to make more efficient use of the capacity that they have left e.g. changing over to MPEG4, closing duplicate SD channels, squeezing more channels into each transponder etc.
I take your point about the shopping channels being used to beef up the total amount of channels available.