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What channels would you like next on Com8?
tvmad-alan
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Freeview has come alive over last few months with some channels going or moving and some new channels too. :cool:
We now have Com 8 mux live after almost 18 months after Com 7 which was both were given the go ahead and given a five year life by OFCOM & ARQIVA.
We have on Com 8 two HD channels which are QVC+1 HD on EPG 111 & QVC Beauty HD on EPG 112.
yes shopping channels in HD
Now what type of channels would hope to now see along with above named channels ?
Seen that Com 7 give us some HD channels but also SD channels too.
HD Channels ? ;-)
Film 4 HD
Channel 5 HD
ITVBe HD
SD Channels ?
CBS Horror +1
CBS Drama
Sky Sports News HQ
TCM
Pick TV +1
TJC Choice
We could see BBC One+1 SD coming along faster with space on Freeview which may be that BBC Three HD & SD may not close down on TV?
We also could see some part time Freeview channels move to become full time, which would give space for new part time channels ?
Nice to see Freeview grow:)
We now have Com 8 mux live after almost 18 months after Com 7 which was both were given the go ahead and given a five year life by OFCOM & ARQIVA.
We have on Com 8 two HD channels which are QVC+1 HD on EPG 111 & QVC Beauty HD on EPG 112.
yes shopping channels in HDNow what type of channels would hope to now see along with above named channels ?
Seen that Com 7 give us some HD channels but also SD channels too.
HD Channels ? ;-)
Film 4 HD
Channel 5 HD
ITVBe HD
SD Channels ?
CBS Horror +1
CBS Drama
Sky Sports News HQ
TCM
Pick TV +1
TJC Choice
We could see BBC One+1 SD coming along faster with space on Freeview which may be that BBC Three HD & SD may not close down on TV?
We also could see some part time Freeview channels move to become full time, which would give space for new part time channels ?
Nice to see Freeview grow:)
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Possibly, like me, they're too senile to remember what time anything starts or to set the PVR?
Sadly thanks to Arqiva that ISN'T going to happen, so whatever appears on COM8 that isn't in HD is going to look crap anyway.
It's a financial decision by the channels concerned. Arqiva effectively just sells MBs.
If Arqiva want to sell lower res/bitrate capacity for more profit, then they should at least use a resolution that's more suited to 16:9 widescreen broadcasts.
This has been the big trouble with digital service on our TV bands is that space has been limited and made costs too high for some TV companies and many even got into selling space ( Hours ) on there own channel space, this is why we have betting and shopping all over the EPG at different times of the evening ,night sadly.
This is also why channels also put out different scale of vision & sound to keep costs down ( shame )
We need to stop selling space which belonged to our national TV service before the DSO and make sure that money made from DTT is put back into the service to give more muxes and stop these 5 year non fixed ones like com 7 & 8 which stops TV channels companies from planning ahead and giving best vision and sound to us.
I did not understand why we could not of had the five or four channels made from the DSO put to six digital muxes to give the public TV up to 11 muxes
BUT we have some space now and with hope this will give us all some good channels
I think it would have been better if each of the PSBs had been given 1 MUX per channel and and commercial channels would have had to buy space on a PSB's mux.
This would have meant that 5 MUXs would have had to go on each relay at DSO and everything would have been available to everyone, with possibly space to squeeze a 6th mux in on main txs if there was enough bandwidth left over. This 6th MUX along with the second BBC MUX could have been DVB-T2 from the start of DSO.
Yes over all this would have worked out to be less channels, but I think people would have been happier overall.
Or later on do a huge single frequency network that has all regional variations at every transmitter, at places near the coast ect reduce power right down and make it directional.
This would make it a bit like satellite where your box scans though everything available and then selects your regional variation via postcode, or in this case the first mux your box finds has the main tx details of where it is broadcast from, a sort of default mux if you like.
I know nether ideas will be used but either could have been seen as an improvement by a lot of people.
Trouble is they're all 3/4 SD resolution so if you miss the original broadcast the chances are you won't get to see it in full SD let alone HD.
Film4 HD would be good.
True Movies and maybe Movies 24.
CBS Drama.
Darren
- Sony Entertainment Television (FTV on Sky)
- Sony Movie Channel (FTV on Sky)
- True Movies 1
- True Movies 2
- CBS Drama
- True Drama
- BET
I think a large amount of viewers simple change channels by going up and down on the EPG to see what happens to be on. If that happens to be on a +1 channel doesn't bother them.
I dont have a source for this, but I imagine people who use this forum are considerably more invested in their TV viewing than the general public. For those that don't take the time to plan their recordings and simply pick up a TV guide to see what is on now, or scan through the EPG, +1's have their place.
Buy a recorder if that bothers you, its just a useful catch up service if you miss something and haven't got access to iPlayer.
I've got a recorder but it sometimes fails to record (that's if I even remembered to set it to record in the first place).
Last night for example it recorded the first second of The Classic Car Show then quit for no obvious reason.
Nice to see yet another fantasy Mux thread ;-)
It would be great if people could concentrate on what is possible - probable, even, rather than wanting something that $ky is likely to have signed an exclusivity deal with.
And personally, I would love to see the back of every single +1 channel, and see some foreign language channels (other than Al-Jaz Arabic) on Freeview, but it probably isn't going to happen, not least because the UKIPpers amongst you would explode in fury.
Where I live we haven't even got COM 7 and that is a Main transmitter !!
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When you say you haven't got it do you mean it isn't transmitted in your area or that it is but you can't receive it where you live?
Preseli West Wales
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Ah, right. I can see how that would annoy you.