Hmm, that might explain why the Synapse test service arrived at the same time.

if its going to run 24 hours. then it looks like bluebird is not time sharing with a other channel. it also looks like to me that they are not the one's that will be using the stream that was put up for sale some time ago as those hours were midnight to 6am. the hours that playboy chat tv used.

If it is channel 179 (not in the 200s), and has four streams.... has anyone given thought to the fact it might be like the old BBC News interactive on DTT? They could have 4 1/4 screens with the audio selected by an MHEG app.

It's in the adult block to satisfy DMOL and Ofcom EPG rules, regardless of whether it is a streamed or "proper" channel.

Oh well, more Freeview channels that very few will be able to watch.

I have just read on the bluebird TV forum that channel 179 will work with normal Freeview service.I don't see how this will work having said that would it not be better to have 4 LCN.I guess time will tell.

It will work on normal the Freeview service, however any box or TV would have to have a working ethernet port for an internet connection.

And as far as I am aware, only Freeview HD boxes have this.

I see but in the pass it has been reported on this forum that some HD boxes do not work with this type of channel (IPTV),

True, they don't - sometimes it's down to the box firmware, other times it's the stream not conforming to the standard.

That's right. In fact very little equipment in the UK is compatible with these IPTV/OTT Freeview services.

This is a list of current compatible devices for the Vision TV network, and I assume that this is the same for other services using similar protocol:

http://www.visiontvnetwork.co.uk/home/devices

I'm surprised that the YouView box isn't listed, but perhaps the YouView consortium see third party OTT services as competition to their own offering.

Certainly, that list is not definitive - my DigitalStream PVR is compatible with Vision TV but is not listed.

Oddly enough though, the DigitalStream is not compatible with The Space.

Makes me glad i live in a freeview lite area so don't get all these rubbish channels.

It's not an issue in full Freeview areas - you simply delete the channels.

Exactly - surely better to live in an area with channels you don't want and can delete than in one without channels you do want but can't add!

Well channel 179 is starting on monday 14th as on there twitter page just now.

Hidden on my EPG, along with quite a lot on COMs 4-6: includimg the A+N Mobile + TV Text Services on LCNs 201-204. Tidier.

From bluebird TV forum.

I assume that this wont be available for most people who dont have the most recent HD TVs?

It will require that the device has a fully-functional ethernet port, as well as the necessary firmware to support the service (similar to that found on the Connect TV channels on the HD mux).

So they haven't heard of the Connect TV channel portals then.

http://www.connect-tv.tv/what-we-do/

Pfft, I thought you wouldn't have to have an internet connection to get it on FV, I am ultra disappointed, unless you can have it if you have FV HD of course.

The Bluebird TV coming soon message has been removed and is now a blank screen.

Any one got any news on this?

Has it been removed from the freeview EPG as i not going to rescan.

It was like that yesterday. i did a recan & it still came up. but if it's started should it not show a message on screen . so my thinking is that this channel is not going to start on freeview.

It's still in the LCN snd SDT tables.

Perhaps this is a good example of why posting future predictions of things into the changelog is a bad idea - eg twitter and PR announcements. If we stick to factual reporting of changes which have been observed to have already happened then we won't end up with inaccurate clutter in the changelog. The PR stuff is best posted in a thread like this one.

Any news on what 790 will be?