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BBC Olympics - 24 Live HD Streams on Cable & Satellite
tiger2000
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Fantastic neews, now I just need a PVR that can record 15 channels at once!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17595078
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17595078
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/olympic-streams.html
Exactly; it's one thing offering them all, but it's quite another for cable and satellite providers to be able to carry them all.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/04/olympics_24_streams.html
Roger Mosey says in his blog:
I'd suspect that means they'll be FTA and Freesat will carry them too, they're just working on the technicals.
Based on this announcementVirgin's TiVo service will be carrying them.
http://corporate.sky.com/media/press_releases/2012/olympics_channels
All the feeds will be available in both SD and HD as channels listed in the Sports EPG.
It will be on the BBC Sport website also and look at post #6, seems that Sky will pay for some of the carriage costs and could be open to Freesat to use the feeds as well.
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Just reread it...
Why are they not carring it on the V+HD?, is there a technical reason?
It won't
From the Sky announcement link above:
The 48 new channels will be added to the Sports section of Sky’s Electronic Programme Guide from the 24th of July. The channels are free-to-air and available to any Sky home, including Freesat from Sky homes. The HD channels are available on any Sky+HD box and do not require a subscription, but do require an HD ready TV. Customers will require a Sky subscription in order to use Sky+.
and the heading for the BBC is:
Delivering the digital Olympics: 24 live streams via the red button
so assume as red button is on Freesat it will of course be available
They should be on the EPG aswell going by the BBC announcement today.
"I think I'll tune into BBC Sports 23".... Could be very amusing
Sorry but if these are RED Button streams, you can't record them :mad:
Hopefully I'm wrong....
Why are you dreading the cost? Who said the BBC are paying for ALL the carriage on Satellite? if at all?
At least Sky are paying. Would be good to have a 3d dedicated channel too.
They'll also be available on the EPG with seperate channel numbers, so can be recorded, paused etc...
The BBC are providing the feeds, on a "non-exclusive basis" so one would guess Sky would have to make them FTA for others like Freesat to access like Freesat given they are carrying them as well. Would be very stupid to have two entire sets of channels on Satellite, so while Sky may well be doing the technical but can't keep it all to themselves. They will have to share it.
Why would it?
Bit galling for those who chose Freeview over Freesat.
It will be on the BBC Sport website as well so those of us who can't or won't have Satellite or Cable can still see the feeds.
So it's not "galling" as you put it.
A quick sum -
Feeds already exist - as they are basically OBS outputs ...
BBC Provides then to a convenient point - cost very low if anything .....
Sky or virgin or who ever picks them up ....
both Sky and virgin have dark fibre to likely BBC pick up points - kit to run uncompressed across dark fibre is under £3k/circuit
- so say £75k and the kit can be reused!
this could be on only 4 wavelengths ...
The only great expense is code &Mux up link and Space segment - which Sky are providing .. what happens if they run down their Movies for the period???
In fact it is remarkably cheap for the BBC to provide this to the platforms ... for them to do things at their (could be quite low) cost