Just Sharing This Could VM also lose some or all Discovery channels?

[RichardCoulter]

I've been told that VM get their HD feeds by fibre and SD feeds via the satellite.

Can't remember if it was an SD or a HD channel that I was watching on VM last night, but the ticker advice for Sky customers appeared at the top (think it was Discovery Science).

I don't think that this has a HD variant, so perhaps this explains why the ticker is being shown to VM customers??

Could this mean that for technical reasons, as opposed to the Sky/Discovery dispute itself, that we will lose access to the SD Discovery channels from the 1st February??

Longer term, if something isn't sorted out, given that 70% of the Discovery audience is said to be via Sky, could we see the channels pulled due to not being financially viable?

 

[Channel Hopper]

Again ?

Seriously, there is no reason why SD content cannot be played on an HD channel. Other channels do it all the time.

 

[2cvbloke]

They get the feeds via a different set of satellites rather than from Astra 2 (where sky rents space on), so the cable versions shouldn't cut out due to a dispute with another provider...