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Old 27-01-2008, 20:55   #312
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Re: Coming soon to Virgin Media 2008.

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Originally Posted by JG3870 View Post
CH4 pay a fee to ASTRA who own the satellite and then the channel gets uplinked to the satellite and the only involvement with Sky is the broadcaster has to pay SKY a fee to appear on their EPG.
Nope, Sky encode and encrypt C4 HD for Channel 4.

Andrew is yet to show me a single box Professional receiver that can decrypt H.264 Videoguard encrypted channels. Theres still a reason for it, it doesn't exist. Until it does then Virgin cannot take Sky's HD channels from satellite and re-encode them onto their own platform. The alternatives are a three box soultion or a direct HD SDI fibre feed, both very expensive solutions.