The point of SDV is to save bandwidth by only sending the channel to those who want it, but because of their architecture, they have to send it to everyone on the same head-end. Therefor, popular channels don't make sense, since it's using the same bandwidth on every headend anyways.
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Ben,
What do you mean that "...SDV doesn't work very well at all for very popular channels..."?
Can you elaborate on the 'doesn't work' part? Like does smoke come out of the box, when you try to tune into NBC?
The point of SDV is to save bandwidth by only sending the channel to those who want it, but because of their architecture, they have to send it to everyone on the same head-end. Therefor, popular channels don't make sense, since it's using the same bandwidth on every headend anyways.