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Originally Posted by entwisi
nice to hear they have finally got ITV HD but why they need to charge that extra tenner for programmes you are already paying for and are in most cases free on other channels(freesat) is not sitting well with a lot of people including me.
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Freesat HD only has BBCHD (for around 6 hours per day), Channel 4HD (which is often upscaled and not HD) and the occasion couple of hours of ITVHD. The SkyHD package has at least 12 extra HD channels on top of those, plus you can always pay extra for the premium HD channels too (Sport and Movies). I actually get a few channels I don't already pay for, such as EurosportHD, MTVHD and DisneyHD.
I know people don't like having to pay for things, but I think Sky is good value for money and although I'd obviously like the £9.75 fee dropping, I wouldn't like it if it meant that I'd lose the additional channels.
I don't think it was a case of ITV not allowing Sky to show its HD channel, but more to do with the way that ITVHD works via the 'red button' and not a proper channel in its own right. Sky not having ITVHD was a bit rich really, as it was Sky that funded ITV's move into HD in the first place.