Euronews coming to Freesat in HD?
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According to this article, Euronews has contracted for live HD video production facilities and are shortly to launch in HD. They already provide a live HD stream on their website. So we may be getting another HD channel shortly.
http://www.sportsvideo.org/ibc2014/news-roundup/euronews-taps-evs-for-live-and-studio-based-hd-news-productions/
http://www.sportsvideo.org/ibc2014/news-roundup/euronews-taps-evs-for-live-and-studio-based-hd-news-productions/
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Could it happen that it may get locked into the Sky HD pack?
I doubt it as it's a news channel. I daresay that Sky would try and hoover up a new HD entertainment channel though to bolster its own suite of HD channels and, of course, to act as a spoiler to stop Freesat getting access.
By the way, has anyone heard from Al Jazeera about an HD variant of their English language news channel?
Not wanting to be pedantic but 'hoover' is both a noun and a verb according to the Oxford Dictionary of English [suck something up with or as if with a vacuum cleaner].
How off-topic can we get?
Either you're not from the UK or you've just emerged from cryostasis after 80 years.
Education is a wonderful thing.
LOL lol and more lol
I wonder how long it would take the mods to just say this is way off topic lets delete the thread?
Well that sucks.
Dam
It's very simple. I've never actually met anyone who couldn't grasp the concept before.
Wherever you can use "vacuum" (verb) you can use "hoover" (verb). The two words are synonymous.
"I daresay that Sky would try and vacuum up a new HD entertainment channel" -
Hoover up/vacuum up: 'suck up and capture, exclusively'; snatch up; gobble up.
You better be a genuine idiot and not trolling me.
I agree there sky does not = satellite!
Its EBU-owned is it not? And they're not what id call a 'pay-tv' outfit?
And can this thread stay on topic perhaps?
No one cares if you think hoover doesn't fit what you want it to. Its meant sucking up/suction for years before the company came along.. Deal with it!
Some of its funding comes from the European Commission for "helping to create a European public space for debate and discussion" although actual details of the level of financing are hard to find.
I wouldn't say CRT is a noun anyway. It's an abbreviation possibly for a device called a Cathode Ray Tube (among other things it could also refer to The Canal And River Trust, or a pacemaker device), it only become obvious when the context it's used in makes it obvious (certainly doesn't apply to your post). Rather pathetic really, everyone knows what what hoovering means, when the context in which it's used makes it obvious to most of us.
And what about CNN? There was a hint of that a year or so ago.
They aren't free they are all encrypted (Videoguard) , you have to have subscription and a card to decrypt them on a Sky Box.
I don't think that's entirely being fair to Freesat. You get broadly the same amount of entirely free HD channels that you get on Freeview (free, of course), Virgin Media's M+ pack (paid-for) and freesat from Sky (paid-for viewing card) plus you get better overall standard definition programmes compared with, for example, Freeview.
There is the malign presence of Sky in the background trying to prevent HD channels becoming available on Freesat by tying up broadcasters with exclusivity deals but, as Freesat becomes more and more popular, I have no doubt that more HD channels will eventually become available.
Couldn't agree more and the point about Sky's involvement is true too. I think though that, as Freeview now has spectrum for many more channels, they realise they'll need deep pockets to keep buying out the PSB's. Channel 5 HD has to be one of the next contenders for the platform. Already Viacom have, this week, jumped on to the debate about retransmission fees the other three PSB's have come to an agreement with Sky on.