How's that going to work then? How will they fit in a second HD channel, especially on DTT? Will the existing HD service just carry programmes from Two, Three and Four?
How's that going to work then? How will they fit in a second HD channel, especially on DTT? Will the existing HD service just carry programmes from Two, Three and Four?
Didn't Channel 5 hand back their DTT HD licence, with the BBC having automatic first dibs?
Worth also noting that this will be BBC One London HD and so it's probable that any Nations HD stuff will be on BBC HD instead, wonder whether it'll carry LDN or we'll get a return of UK today.
So presumably, when the BBC have to hand over the Freeview slot to Five, there will be a need for a channel showing the best of all 6 channels just as BBC HD currently does, on Freeview only, with BBC One HD and the BBC HD showing just BBC2-4 and kids' stuff continuing on other platforms? Gets complicated, unless they can hang onto that slot long term.
I think Five have to bid for a new slot when it's released - BBC get this automatically.
Ridiculous really - can only manage one interactive stream but now get two HD streams!
Not really, 'interactive streams' (they're not interactive of course) are a bit of a waste of bandwidth - showing nothing for most of the time and then looped video for quite a bit of the rest of the time.
Although a BBC ONE HD consisting of mostly up-converted SD material is arguably a waste too
I am surprised there has been no mention of The One Show going HD. That would be 2.5 hours a week of quite varied HD material if it was to happen. Maybe they want to see if the new presenter is popular and the show has a long term future before committing to it.
So they've got six months to completely rebuild / drastically refurbish the backlot then? IIRC in a previous thread it was suggested the EE backlot is far worse than Corrie in HD due to it being completely fake whereas Corrie uses real bricks and the like.