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Will BBC1 HD launch on 1 October?
Boatman
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So far there has been no definate date for the launch on BBC1 HD but looking at the schedules for 1 October looks good.
On this day the Ryder Cup starts and even though it is advertised to be in HD, BBC HD are not showing it. According to Radio Times. Similarly for the Commonwealth Games which starts the following Sunday.
Does anyone else have any info on this?
On this day the Ryder Cup starts and even though it is advertised to be in HD, BBC HD are not showing it. According to Radio Times. Similarly for the Commonwealth Games which starts the following Sunday.
Does anyone else have any info on this?
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at best the BBC will only have selected highlights (and even then i don't they have that).
We must be up to five or six by now.
There are Ryder Cup highlights on BBC HD on all three days of the tournament.
Saturday's and Sunday's are simulcast with BBC2, but Friday's are shifted until the middle of the night (12.50am).
They also do not refer to the golf as being on BBC HD by the way.
Though these packs have been very misleading lately (eg they said Merlin WAS on in HD when it isn't).
October 15 2010
November???
I wonder when that document was written?
I guess there will be a thread on here with the date 0.1 seconds after the BBC announce it.
From what I gather it may clear up some space on BBC HD. With any luck that channel will start repeating the likes of Rab C Nesbitt, Top Gear, movies all in HD.
Match of the Day will go HD when the sports dept. move to Manchester, the whole point of the 'EastEnders' fire was to get rid of the Queen Vic's set and rebuild it for HD without having it suddenley appear unexplained in the show.
When the launch was initially announced, they said that they intended to upgrade the majority of their programming to HD within the first 6 months IIRC (that's the programming that isn't already HD: a lot of it's core programming is).
There'll obviously be a lot more CBBC and CBeebies programming on BBC HD from then onwards, I imagine it'll also carry repeats of BBC One programming (much as now).
I do wonder if That Mitchell and Webb Look, currently shown mostly on the HD channel, will be shown on BBC One when BBC1HD launches.
It has been on before, it’s an extended repeat from last Friday
I noticed that Spooks is not in HD and with the BBC made to freeze the licence fee next year perhaps they have thrown their dummy out of the pram and will not start a new HD channel this year.
BBC HD is only ever a showcase really, good HD content is also transmitted on an SD channel simultaneously anyway.
It's probably better just to have BBC1 HD and stop BBC HD, which will make better use of bandwidth and resources.
Maybe in time they can add/convert other BBC channels to HD, as that's clearly the way forward for household TV for the next 20 years or so. A separate "HD" only channel doesn't really make much sense to me in the longer term.
As for putting all HD content on to BBC one/one HD, that would mean that the accepted channel definitions (especially those for BBC3/4) would be thrown away, with that content appearing on BBC one (at the expense of otehr BBC one content having to be removed or displaced).
so its october 15th?
Well my birthday is the 16th so hope the OH isn’t going to use this as my birthday present for this year.:D
nothing would suprise me:)
But what we do have is a document from RedBee Media (link posted above, post #9, by DejaVoodoo) which mentions November.
oh right,clearly the BBC are not the right mind to give out good information freely?
Perhaps they still have to ensure that no last-minute technical hitches will impact any planned date, so are waiting before releasing an official date (which is much better than announcing a date and then having to delay). i'm sure that there was one post in one of the many "BBC one HD.... when?" threads that said that an announcement would be made in the next few weeks.
EDIT: Here is that post from 13th Sept:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=44070137&postcount=39
So, we are one week on, so according to that post, an announcement should be made within the next two weeks.
Mind you, I can't see what the issue is - yes, it's nice to know, but if we assume that a date is being aimed for internally, making that date known is not going to hasten its arrival, it's not going to mean that it will be sooner, and it's not really going to mean that your life will irrevocably change if that date is known ..... will it? We know that it is coming this Autumn, so any decisions that you or I will make (like buying a HD PVR) will be pretty much the same whether we know the date now or later.
At the end of the day, SD transmissions are bound to cease, it simply makes sense to me to start that process at the earliest opportunity, and this would appear to be it.
BBC 3/4 are part time channels themselves, much is repeated from BBC1/2 anyway. Again, it might not have been the intent of the BBC to maintain 3/4 for too much longer anyway, now that the DSO is virtually complete. Their budget will have to be cut in the future and any parring away of dead twigs could save them a lot of money.