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Can't find anything to watch? Spare multiplex capacity from the BBC and Arqiva will be used to create two new channels.
So that'll be a 24 hour kitchen accessory channel and bid-drop-up-down-lose-money TV then. Woot.
I for one welcome our new shopping overlords.Quote:
Originally Posted by snootyjim
I miss the old Granada channels with the very old Coronation Street and other golden oldies!
Skysports would be good, so people can just buy that package with subscibing to SKY,
it surely can be done as i remember when Ondigital did it through your TV ariel.
ESPN offer it so it make take some of there business away ..
i doubt this will happen but you never know.
:)
It's all the cards that cause the problems. Doesn't seem like many freeview boxes come with card slots at the moment.
If the BBC now has all this spare multiplex capacity that their going to sell off, what the hell was the reason for cutting one of the red-button channels?
That's where it came from. I would imagine that capacity wasn't the reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by mallett
Thats what I mean, wasn't the reason they gave at the time when they switched it off was that they needed the space for freeview HD and they were cheating the space to help get ready?Quote:
Originally Posted by snootyjim
If I'm wrong (very possible) then just ignore my ramblings and move on.... :O_o1:
Unfortunately the space will be used for channels which will be of little interest or entertainment value. Freeview seems to becomming over populated with shopping channels and those awful phone in shows.
If Sky Sports was to be broadcasted over Freeview, then it would be done via Top Up TV and I doubt that very much. Anyone remember Sky Picnic - whatever happened to that?
I would hope to see Living, but that is owned by Virgin and is sold as a paid offering. The FX and Sci Fi channels are good. I would like to see them escape being on Sky and Virgin. They are immensly popular on Sky & Virgin, so adding them to Freeview would increase the number of viewers and possibly advertising revenue?
More choice in childrens and music channels would be good too.
More channels! Wahheeey. I'm all for it. Take that Murdoch!
Another suggestion would be to move some SD channels exclusively onto the Freeview HD platform to move more people to HD in order to free up room for more HD channels from the old and inneficient MPEG2 broadcasts.
Please let it be a cooking channel.
It's the only thing Mrs DAngel misses from Sky.
Given that every single Freeview tuner on the market right now doesn't support DVB-T2, moving SD channels to T2 would kill them, as they'd get roughly zero viewers (well, apart from the guys at the BBC with T2 reference kit).Quote:
Originally Posted by billybear
Come March we might start seeing T2 products, but I believe the plan is to keep DVB-T for a few years before finally getting rid of them and making everything T2, and that will be what, the third digital "switchover"?
id love to see ESPN and sky 1 take up those spaces but i know that will only happen when hell freezes over :(
Great, so these new channel can take the place of any future HD channels, the bitrate of existing channels can get even lower and the new channels will probably be shopping/gambling/chat rubbish.
When the analog is switched off there won\'t be \'more space\' for freeview because its already been sold off, probably for mobile phone/wireless internet.