Interesting that the BBC have confirmed that they do want to swap HD channels with the SD counterparts on Freeview but can't due to EPG rules. Hopefully it will happen for Freeview viewers sometime soon.
BBC THREE HD and CBBC HD placeholders now up
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Originally Posted by Colin_London:
“Hurrah! The doubters can be silenced at last
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“Hurrah! The doubters can be silenced at last
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I'd call it caution rather than doubt.
Originally Posted by Paddy C:
“Interesting that the BBC have confirmed that they do want to swap HD channels with the SD counterparts on Freeview but can't due to EPG rules. Hopefully it will happen for Freeview viewers sometime soon.”
“Interesting that the BBC have confirmed that they do want to swap HD channels with the SD counterparts on Freeview but can't due to EPG rules. Hopefully it will happen for Freeview viewers sometime soon.”
As they are one of Freeview's major stakeholders, you'd hope that's sooner rather than later.
In anycase they've sort of broken the so called 'Genre Rules' by
putting CBBC and CBeebeebies HD on 73/74,
Originally Posted by Kenny Maclean:
“"Regarding BBC News HD, we have decided to delay the swapping with the SD channel until after the Christmas change freeze, ie, January 2014, in order to avoid non-essential technical work that could impact the availability of our existing SD BBC News channel whilst it is covering a major news story."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/abouttheb...-December-2013”
“"Regarding BBC News HD, we have decided to delay the swapping with the SD channel until after the Christmas change freeze, ie, January 2014, in order to avoid non-essential technical work that could impact the availability of our existing SD BBC News channel whilst it is covering a major news story."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/abouttheb...-December-2013”
That'll teach me for not reading something properly!
Originally Posted by Mark C:
“As they are one of Freeview's major stakeholders, you'd hope that's sooner rather than later.
In anycase they've sort of broken the so called 'Genre Rules' by
putting CBBC and CBeebeebies HD on 73/74,”
“As they are one of Freeview's major stakeholders, you'd hope that's sooner rather than later.
In anycase they've sort of broken the so called 'Genre Rules' by
putting CBBC and CBeebeebies HD on 73/74,”
Not really. It's part of Digital UK LCN policy - originating from the same consultation - designed to protect children from Adult channels. Any Childrens or Adult HD channels will appear in their relevant genre - and are eligible for SD/HD swapping.
Originally Posted by eladkse:
“Not really. It's part of Digital UK LCN policy - originating from the same consultation - designed to protect children from Adult channels. Any Childrens or Adult HD channels will appear in their relevant genre - and are eligible for SD/HD swapping.”
“Not really. It's part of Digital UK LCN policy - originating from the same consultation - designed to protect children from Adult channels. Any Childrens or Adult HD channels will appear in their relevant genre - and are eligible for SD/HD swapping.”
It is parents' job to protect their children as they see fit by engaging parental controls in the TV and locking the relevant channels. No amount of EPG numbering will help, children know how to enter a channel number directly or pull up the channel list/epg.
Just did a scan on 31 (Wenvoe)and have all the HD channels on the epg. Al Jazeera is broadcasting. I normally get a signal strength of 50-55% on Mendip, Wenvoe is showing 40%.
I never thought I'd tune to Wenvoe again, but am glad it's available.
I never thought I'd tune to Wenvoe again, but am glad it's available.
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