BBC Olympics - 24 Live HD Streams on Cable & Satellite

tiger2000 · 03/04/12 - 10:51

Fantastic neews, now I just need a PVR that can record 15 channels at once!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17595078

Boatman · 03/04/12 - 10:54

Where will the satellite space come from and will they be available free via Freesat?

tiger2000 · 03/04/12 - 10:57

A few more details from the BBC Press Office.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/olympic-streams.html

Jason C · 03/04/12 - 10:57

Boatman wrote: »

Where will the satellite space come from and will they be available free via Freesat?

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.

tiger2000 · 03/04/12 - 11:00

...and a few more details from the BBC Blog.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/04/olympics_24_streams.html

jeffersbnl · 03/04/12 - 11:06

Boatman wrote: »

Where will the satellite space come from and will they be available free via Freesat?

Roger Mosey says in his blog:

Sky will also pick up the costs of satellite distribution, irrespective of whether other platforms join in - though we hope and believe there'll be more announcements soon.

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.

omnidirectional · 03/04/12 - 11:09

Here's Sky's announcement, they'll be carrying all of 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.

Boatman · 03/04/12 - 11:09

I just hope it won't be behind a paywall, ie Sky or Virgin.

StevenNT · 03/04/12 - 11:18

Boatman wrote: »

I just hope it won't be behind a paywall, ie Sky or Virgin.

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.

tiger2000 · 03/04/12 - 11:19

jeffersbnl wrote: »

Based on this announcementVirgin's TiVo service will be carrying them.

Will this also be avaliable to Virgin's non-Tivo subscribers? Not sure if it is technically possibe? I hope that Virgin don't use this to try and push those resisting switching to Tivo onto the service.

Edit

Just reread it...

The additional video streams will only be available to Virgin Media customers who have a TiVo set-top box – a rival to BSkyB's Sky+ service that gives access to on-demand and interactive services.

Why are they not carring it on the V+HD?, is there a technical reason?

derek500 · 03/04/12 - 11:20

Boatman wrote: »

I just hope it won't be behind a paywall, ie Sky or Virgin.

It won't

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+.

Boatman · 03/04/12 - 11:21

But that is Freesat from Sky not freesat.

swills · 03/04/12 - 11:22

Boatman wrote: »

I just hope it won't be behind a paywall, ie Sky or Virgin.

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

Martin1 · 03/04/12 - 11:25

tiger2000 wrote: »

Will this also be avaliable to Virgin's non-Tivo subscribers? Not sure if it is technically possibe? I hope that Virgin don't use this to try and push those resisting switching to Tivo onto the service.

Edit

Just reread it...

Why are they not carring it on the V+HD?, is there a technical reason?

You do realise that announcement was made in december 2011 and that was talking the BBC red button.

They should be on the EPG aswell going by the BBC announcement today.

Aaron_Scotland · 03/04/12 - 11:30

Always wondered how the BBC would do it with only 2 HD channels, Lets hope as Sky are setting them up they'll be full 1920x1080.

"I think I'll tune into BBC Sports 23"....

Could be very amusing

[Deleted User] · 03/04/12 - 11:35

tiger2000 wrote: »

Fantastic news, now I just need a PVR that can record 15 channels at once!
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Sorry but if these are RED Button streams, you can't record them :mad:
Hopefully I'm wrong....

BMR · 03/04/12 - 11:35

I dread to think how much this is costing......

StevenNT · 03/04/12 - 11:37

BMR wrote: »

I dread to think how much this is costing......

Why are you dreading the cost? Who said the BBC are paying for ALL the carriage on Satellite? if at all?

derek500 · 03/04/12 - 11:38

BMR wrote: »

I dread to think how much this is costing......

At least Sky are paying. Would be good to have a 3d dedicated channel too.

[Deleted User] · 03/04/12 - 11:38

Confirmed to be available on Freesat via Twitter.

Yes, we're getting the BBC Olympic streams, we'll announce more details shortly!

anywho's · 03/04/12 - 11:41

WillS wrote: »

Sorry but if these are RED Button streams, you can't record them :mad:
Hopefully I'm wrong....

They'll also be available on the EPG with seperate channel numbers, so can be recorded, paused etc...

StevenNT · 03/04/12 - 11:43

Aaron_Scotland wrote: »

Always wondered how the BBC would do it with only 2 HD channels, Lets hope as Sky are setting them up they'll be full 1920x1080.

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.

Aaron_Scotland wrote: »

"I think I'll tune into BBC Sports 23".... Could be very amusing

Why would it?

derek500 · 03/04/12 - 11:45

Good to see the BBC working with Sky and putting common sense before platform neutrality.

Bit galling for those who chose Freeview over Freesat.

StevenNT · 03/04/12 - 11:48

derek500 wrote: »

Good to see the BBC working with Sky and putting common sense before platform neutrality.

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.

technologist · 03/04/12 - 11:49

BMR wrote: »

I dread to think how much this is costing......

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

IanP · 03/04/12 - 11:50

Where have Sky suddenly found 24 SD EPG slots? Haven't they been telling broadcasters for years there aren't any SD EPG slots left?

Hey there!

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