From what I can gather *** have simply stopped access to these channels by refusing the card to decrypt these channels.
Very similar to how a freesat from *** card will open FTA channels in a *** box but will give a wrong card message for other channels if it isn't the right box.
In short *** know who owns Thompson boxes , I kept getting calls from *** telling me to upgrade my box before I lose my channels, I kept refusing saying I'd lose my recordings.
Looks to me they are slowly turning of channels trying to force us into upgrading and it's just a simple case of telling the card these channels are not active on these particular cards.