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Originally Posted by wwe
it this true that were not getting no more hd channels ever and why?
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We're not getting any more HD channels this year. What happens next year is still to be decided.
Things to consider though :
1 - Sky have (according to Virgin themselves) exclusivity deals with all HD channels except for BBC HD, and ITV HD.
2- Virgin Media's moronic CEO recently said they only need one HD channel, - BBC HD, and that their lack of HD was not causing them to loose many customers.
3 - Virgin are stuck with a network clogged with legacy analogue cable TV signals, and V+ boxes that can only decode the bloated and out of date MPEG 2 codec. HD video consumes a lot of bandwidth and should be encoded in MPEG 4 format. (as it is on Sky HD, and on Blu-Ray discs)