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With BBC Two HD launching in a week, it's about time for a thread.
What would you like to see happen to BBC Three/Four and CBBC/Cbeebies content that currently airs on BBC HD?
If you are with Virgin would you like to see it move lower down in the listings nearer BBC One HD rather than at the back of the EPG?
What would you like to see happen to BBC Three/Four and CBBC/Cbeebies content that currently airs on BBC HD?
If you are with Virgin would you like to see it move lower down in the listings nearer BBC One HD rather than at the back of the EPG?
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Are you aware just how little content from the channels mentioned actually appears on BBC HD at the moment?
There is only one answer for me. The BBC need to launch HD simulcasts of those channels and BBC News asap. To go on Sky, freesat and Virgin etc from the off and Freeview as soon as capacity is available.
On the final point but applying it to Sky I would like to see the HD versions of BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 at 201 to 205 on the epg if they can't or won't be part of the HD swap. That would make them much easier to find and switch between. Very similar to what Freeview has done with its HD channels.
Given that Virgin Media's HD services are MPEG2 coded, and that the flexibility exists for service insertion/deletion at local head-ends. Why do the HD versions of BBC1 and ITV not contain up-scaled versions of the regional programmes?
I'm not suggesting that this is trivial, MPEG splicing is inherently un-clean. But given the co-operation of the bradcaster with active signalling and a few blank GOPs, it is not outside the bounds of feasibility that D-CABLE could offer opt-outs in (sort-of) HD!
Better than 143 and 169.
it mirrors the first 5 PSB channels on 1,2,3,4 and 5 or 101, 102, 103, 104 and 105 would anyone want to break with that tradition and say have all BBCs channels together at 1-11 and 101-111 and then ITVs at 12-24 and 112-124, C4s at 25-39 and 125-139 and C5s at 40-48 and 140-148. My idea is to keep the main 5PSBs together wether SD or HD!
141 BBC1 Northern Ireland (for viewers in the ROI)
142 BBC2 Northern Ireland (for viewers in the ROI)
143 BBC One HD
168 BBC Alba
169 BBC HD (soon to be BBC Two HD)
Sky wouldn't like that since there are, what, 11 PSB channels? Even if you only include entertainment PSB channels, BBC Three and BBC Four would have to come before Sky1, etc.
and why not? It would make things the same on all platforms and then also having the 5main psbs in hd together and before sky channels too (I know ITV HD, C4 HD and C5 HD are not currently PSBs but they should be) it would mean that people would watch the HD channels as they would find them quickly!
Actually for ROI it's;
141 BBC1 Northern Ireland
142 BBC2 Northern Ireland
143 BBC HD
215 BBC 1 HD (London)
Yeah they didn't change it for SD only subs - (just doubled checked as I wondered if they'd changed it since - they haven't)
This Fri @ 11pm
141 NI BBC1 - International Match of the Day
215 BBC 1 HD - Matt Lucas Awards
I believe it's on 215 for those with a HD sub.
bbc 2 hd in a week about time
Another one??
I checked this out and used the comments section to give them some ideas and feedback
Indeed. Fed up with this now, just want the change to happen so we can get on to complaining about the lack of BBC Three & Four HD.
All channels go where I put them and get called anything I want to call them. They don't have numbers, just positions on a list that I can edit and change at will.
BBC1HD replaced BBC1SD in the first position a long time ago on my set up and the SD version is relegated to section at the very bottom. BBC2SD will be joining it next week as I move BBCHD into its second slot and rename it.