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Slightly off topic, but does ITV 4 on Sky 'share' with another channel, like CBBC/BBC Three etc?
I wouldn't have thought so, ITV have tons of space available on Sky, it might share when "ITV Kids" launches next year, but for now it's own it's own.
Though with NTL they take the DTT feed to ITV4 and during the daytime it is blank like BBC3/CBBC and BBC4/CBeebies, where as they would usually put their own Channel Off Air caption.
I don't think ITV has that much spare capacity on DSat - after all they are running a LOT of regional sub-regions for ITV1 now, and they are still running at the low resolution 544x576 resolution (for both 4:3 and 16:9 material), whereas the BBC are running at 720 or 704x576 (albeit with 4:3 material scaled to 544x576 and back again in the transmission chain)
They seem to have upgraded their encoders since last year - as the X Factor is less blocky than the last series, though the whole output does look a lot softer - so they may be heavily pre-filtering to reduce the blocking artefacts. (Reduce the quality of the signal so it is easier to encode)
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On another subject - did anyone notice the line in Broadcast OnLine that the ITV News channel is being outrated by Fox News in satellite homes - at least in the days quoted ?
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nwtv2003 posted:
Westy2 posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
Next week ITV4 has UEFA Cup Football on Thursday from 5pm, so they'll be an even earlier cut-off.
Slightly off topic, but does ITV 4 on Sky 'share' with another channel, like CBBC/BBC Three etc?
I wouldn't have thought so, ITV have tons of space available on Sky, it might share when "ITV Kids" launches next year, but for now it's own it's own.
Though with NTL they take the DTT feed to ITV4 and during the daytime it is blank like BBC3/CBBC and BBC4/CBeebies, where as they would usually put their own Channel Off Air caption.
I don't think ITV has that much spare capacity on DSat - after all they are running a LOT of regional sub-regions for ITV1 now, and they are still running at the low resolution 544x576 resolution (for both 4:3 and 16:9 material), whereas the BBC are running at 720 or 704x576 (albeit with 4:3 material scaled to 544x576 and back again in the transmission chain)
They seem to have upgraded their encoders since last year - as the X Factor is less blocky than the last series, though the whole output does look a lot softer - so they may be heavily pre-filtering to reduce the blocking artefacts. (Reduce the quality of the signal so it is easier to encode)
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On another subject - did anyone notice the line in Broadcast OnLine that the ITV News channel is being outrated by Fox News in satellite homes - at least in the days quoted ?
