ADULT Filth & redhotTV fail to appear
Ray Cathode
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LCN191 & 192 the Channel Five adult channels have failed to appear tonight and are just showing Mheg captions. Their timeshares are LCN31 FIVE USA & LCN30 FIVER. The first is showing a video caption (ie not Mheg as usual) and the latter is on black level. This tends to indicate that this is not a fault but a deliberate technical change away from the slappers. WTF?
I can only assume that they have been scrapped; perhaps they weren't making as much money as is generally believed. The other possibility is that after the Ofcon decision today against Playboy and TMTV 2, Channel Five might have decided to give up now rather than wait for the inevitable fine.
I can only assume that they have been scrapped; perhaps they weren't making as much money as is generally believed. The other possibility is that after the Ofcon decision today against Playboy and TMTV 2, Channel Five might have decided to give up now rather than wait for the inevitable fine.
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It appears that one of the slots has been merged back into five usa as the off air graphic has failed to appear.
What is been shown at the minute is actually been broadcast on the stream.
Looks like the television x dial a babe channels are shutting down already.
Might really be a good thing tbh. After all there's other options for those who want that kind of stuff
It's all done for research purposes only (said Lord Longford).
Ah yes... academic research eh?
I agree it is good news if they are closing as these channels should be banned on freeview as the platform is too open, lots of people tend to use freeview for there children's bedrooms and its not on that this rubbish is on there.
We believe you:D:D:D Thousands wouldn't
I always thought it was a bit strange that they were on it anyway? I suppose being in the 900s on the Sky EPG is probably better for these channels than somewhere on Freeview.
why are people putting tv in their kids bedrooms if they don't trust them. next they will be giving them unmonitored access to the internet.
Also LCN93 Television X is unencrypted or FTA with a trailer.
At the time of writing there are only seven streams on Mux A in place of the normal ten.
All kinds of changes going on. Gems Tv has just returned. This must be some kind of technical reconfiguration of Mux A. Bit surprising so close to Christmas.
The eighth stream with red hot has just appeared.
All nine streams back now (ITV Preview 1 is the tenth and off air until 4am).
Well even in the living room it could be seen you cant watch kids 24 hours a day, I would not have a problem with them if they when pin protected like channel 96 is, the channels could dish the pins out for free.
Then there is the problem of the fact they are wasting limited freeview bandwidth there hardly ever seams to be out decent on freeview in the early hours, at 3am if your up like I am sometimes the choice seams to be teleshopping, shopping channels or adult channels.
It's probably the FTA ones that make money on DTT.
Red hot on freeview shows a satellite channel called cream.
Someone should check the channel bit rates for mux A I wonder if they have been lowered to allow another stream.
I think Mux A is fed into SDN and half coded and then into FIVE to add the rest (or the other way around). Maybe this has been a reconfiguration with all ten streams being routed to SDN. I think the FIVE side went down, with the exception of ESPN. No doubt if it was deliberate, we will find out soon enough. The TVX stuff looked trivial like the 5 minute promo they put out, so maybe it was all planned.
If you read the thread properly you would know the channels returned and where not off air very long.
Yes we need to keep abreast of the situation.
Well I guess it's important knowledge for some
With pretty much every modern Freeview box you can pin protect any channel you want anyway.
How about parents actually take some responsibility, use the features the box actually provides, and lock out those channels so junior cannot watch them.