Motors TV have teamed up with Arqiva's Connect TV service and have announced they are launching as a streamed channel on Freeview channel 240 on the 27th February.

The same date as London Mux launch.Would also be a good time to remove LCN 87 Community Channel Placeholder and sort out LCN 302 & 303.I also have a feeling that the second local tv channel we start broadcasting on 10/3/14 using LCN 65 thire for triggering a EPG reshuffle.

Not much good when your tv or box is not compatible with streamed channels (I'm using the Tesco Technika box which doesn't pick them up).

If anyone is considering buying Freeview equipment, I would recommend staying away from supermarket brands. Sony, Panasonic, LG and Samsung are broadly working towards making all of their most recent TVs compatible with streamed channels, Connected Red Button and catch up TV.

It is tough for those who got 2010-2012 Freeview HD devices (with the exception of TVonics for streamed channels), as these additional functions will generally not be supported by any brand, and the cheaper brands don't seem to be bothered about providing updates to make the streamed services work properly.

Here a link https://twitter.com/comuxUK

Which was in reply to "What happened to these local TV Stations were supposed to be getting ?" so that will be

1 on air = Estuary TV (November 26)
2 next month = + London Live (March 30)

Notts TV follows April 30...

Mustard is the other one, although I'm struggling to see the relevance to this thread.

...and the London mux is now live, so a moot point

Back to Motors TV, you can use the Vision TV Network list of compatible devices as a yardstick (but not the Roku listed there), as both are customers of Connect TV.

The local MUX from Craigkelly also starts on the 27th Feb.

Darren

Or in the case of my TV, where the streamed channels from 225 upwards simply sit there saying "The service is loading, please wait" ad infinitum. And yet the red button on 4Music, QVC Beauty and RT will happily access the additional streams with no bother at all...

Will this be free to view? if so that is excellent news and a great move forward for both Motors TV and IPTV.

Shame BT Sport, Eurosport don't do some deal to get IPTV on the go via a freeviee box and clearly subscription.

BT Sport on Freeview HD by subscription will never happen, they'd rather have you watch on their YouView box on a IPTV platform they control and can maximise profit from.

True but would there not be a market place for someone like that vutv to offer a complete sports package with BT/SS/Eurosport?

Do you mean the actual programming starts on Thursday? As the mux has been available for a few weeks now.


Eurosport has their Eurosport player available as an app for smart TVs.

http://www.motorstv.com/motors-tv-no...ew-channel-240

From Thursday 27 February Motors TV UK will be available on Freeview channel 240.

For the first time anyone with an internet-connected Freeview HD or Freeview+HD product (box or TV) can enjoy full, subscription-free access to the High Speed Television Channel thanks to Arqiva’s Connect TV service.

Just as you would on either Sky or Virgin Media, simply select Motors TV from the EPG or dial 240 on your remote control to view the widest range of live, delayed and highlights motor sport coverage on television.

While most Freeview+HD boxes will automatically detect the Motors TV signal, others might initially require re-tuning.

For further details, and information on compatible Freeview HD/Freeview+HD products, please visit http://www.connect-tv.tv/faq.aspx.

*Available on selected products only.

I rarely look at Freeview (I have it via a communal aerial in a block of flats) because I have Virgin cable..........

But I noticed this thread last night and thought that I'd never seen any TV channels on Freeview higher than the 80s (I don't have HD or streaming)

So I flicked over and when through the channels to see if anything was there.......imagine my surprise when I saw a couple of porn channels broadcasting in the 170s !...........

not encrypted.........

If you think the likes of Babestation constitutes 'porn' then I feel sorry for you.

Indeed, as Virgin Media doesn't carry these sex-line channels, it can be quite a surprise to find this type of dross on Freeview.

That's the danger of a free market. Whilst VM, Sky, Freesat etc get final say on what goes into the EPG and can refuse to carry channels, on Freeview it's a competitive and integrated environment for carriage. If, for example, SDN refused to carry Babestation, they would just go and ask Arqiva. Unless the content is prohibited by their licence, there's no reason for a mux operator to turn a channel down for carriage.
Once a channel has carriage, it gets assigned an LCN. DigitalUK are unable to refuse to allocate one.

Back to Motors TV again, anyone know what mux it will be on?

Most of the other streamed channels are on ArqB - would Arqiva announce it was going to be on Freeview/Connect TV if it was SDN hosting it? If you knew how much bandwidth a streamed channel took up on a mux then you could work out which mux had space, or just wait until midday tomorrow

Maybe I will need to retune my Youview boxes and my TVs for I don't seem to have the local MUX from Craigkelly as yet.

Darren

To be fair, Sky and Freesat will allow pretty much anything on their EPG as long as they pay the EPG fee. Cable has the luxury of not being an open platform and doesn't have to agree to carry these channels.

All of the COM multiplexes have a Connect TV stream, including SDN. So this isn't as clear cut as you suggest.

The actual channel stream will be delivered over the internet, all that is needed on DTT is a single MHEG stream on each multiplex linking the internet streams to an LCN. Not very much space at all.

I live in hull and I can pick up estuary tv. A local tv channel preoccupied with cleathorpes and grimsby.

It's local tv. But not for my local area....