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Yes and interestingly, it looks like this Anytime service will use overnight bandwidth to send out programmes to set-top boxes... so no extra quizzes to look forward to in the wee small hours...!!!
Bozz
Brekkie Boy posted:
What's happening to Top Up TV is more interesting with it effectively being replaced by an "Anytime" download service.
Yes and interestingly, it looks like this Anytime service will use overnight bandwidth to send out programmes to set-top boxes... so no extra quizzes to look forward to in the wee small hours...!!!
Bozz
MS
I noticed the pluralisation of 'soaps' in the description of Five Life. I wonder what they will buy in considering they only show Home and Away at the moment. Hopefully something cheesy and tacky (but also cheap) from America or Australia which sadly left the weekend morning schedules earlier this year to make way for quiz programming and sport.
BR
Some more on the Top Up TV situation from Media Guardian: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/comment/0,,1790791,00.html
So it'll be two new quiz channels then!
SDN is a complicated mux - Five and S4C have the space on it, but ITV own it or something! Don't know if ITV would get first refusal on any space going - perhaps Men and Motors could return?
I think they should lose one channel anyhow (it currently has 9 channels on the mux).
I've said this before but it's time the muxes were sorted out a bit so rather than having 4 channels on one mux and 8 on another, you have around 6 channels on each mux.
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Today's announcement is a watershed not just in the history of Five but in Top Up TV as well. Five, a strategic investor in the Freeview pay-TV platform, is using bandwidth bought from Top Up TV to launch the two new channels.
It is part of a radical new strategy being pursued by Top Up TV, which is restyling itself as a Sky+-style personal video recorder service.
Its current channel lineup, including the likes of Discovery, Cartoon Network and UKTV Gold, will be phased out, at least in the form that we know it today. Instead of 11 linear channels, viewers will be able to pick and choose the programmes they want to watch, which will be downloaded to their hard drive overnight.
The switch provides enough capacity for five new channels, two of which have now been taken up by Five. Irish pay-TV group Setanta, which paid £392m last month for the rights to show 46 Premiership matches a season over three years from August 2007, is already hot favourite to land another one of them, leaving two other vacant berths.
Possible contenders include the likes of rival sports operators Sky or ESPN, or perhaps Disney.
Top Up's new service will be available in the autumn, as it seeks to cash in on the boom that will see around 750,000 Freeview PVRs sold this year. The switch from linear to video on demand will be a gradual one, although not every channel is expected to survive the switch.
It is part of a radical new strategy being pursued by Top Up TV, which is restyling itself as a Sky+-style personal video recorder service.
Its current channel lineup, including the likes of Discovery, Cartoon Network and UKTV Gold, will be phased out, at least in the form that we know it today. Instead of 11 linear channels, viewers will be able to pick and choose the programmes they want to watch, which will be downloaded to their hard drive overnight.
The switch provides enough capacity for five new channels, two of which have now been taken up by Five. Irish pay-TV group Setanta, which paid £392m last month for the rights to show 46 Premiership matches a season over three years from August 2007, is already hot favourite to land another one of them, leaving two other vacant berths.
Possible contenders include the likes of rival sports operators Sky or ESPN, or perhaps Disney.
Top Up's new service will be available in the autumn, as it seeks to cash in on the boom that will see around 750,000 Freeview PVRs sold this year. The switch from linear to video on demand will be a gradual one, although not every channel is expected to survive the switch.
So it'll be two new quiz channels then!
SDN is a complicated mux - Five and S4C have the space on it, but ITV own it or something! Don't know if ITV would get first refusal on any space going - perhaps Men and Motors could return?
I think they should lose one channel anyhow (it currently has 9 channels on the mux).
I've said this before but it's time the muxes were sorted out a bit so rather than having 4 channels on one mux and 8 on another, you have around 6 channels on each mux.
IS
So it'll be two new quiz channels then!
More than likely; quiz and shopping channels make money, advertising funded ones don't
SDN is a complicated mux - Five and S4C have the space on it, but ITV own it or something! Don't know if ITV would get first refusal on any space going - perhaps Men and Motors could return?
Five and S4C get some guaranteed space on DTT in the same way that C4, ITV and Teletext do. It has been letting out its spare bandwidth to other channels such as Top Up TV
Brekkie Boy posted:
So it'll be two new quiz channels then!
More than likely; quiz and shopping channels make money, advertising funded ones don't
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SDN is a complicated mux - Five and S4C have the space on it, but ITV own it or something! Don't know if ITV would get first refusal on any space going - perhaps Men and Motors could return?
Five and S4C get some guaranteed space on DTT in the same way that C4, ITV and Teletext do. It has been letting out its spare bandwidth to other channels such as Top Up TV
TV
exactly what i was thinking. lets hope it could mean a return for sons and daughters or prisoner!!
tvmercia
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msim posted:
I noticed the pluralisation of 'soaps' in the description of Five Life. I wonder what they will buy in considering they only show Home and Away at the moment. Hopefully something cheesy and tacky (but also cheap) from America or Australia which sadly left the weekend morning schedules earlier this year to make way for quiz programming and sport.
exactly what i was thinking. lets hope it could mean a return for sons and daughters or prisoner!!
BR
From what I gather basically this new Top Up TV service will offer downloads overnight to PVRs (so won't be like the BT broadband thing then!) - so I guess they'll essentially broadcast a number of programmes overnight on two or three streams for people to record.
I know PVRs vary, but if they have more than one stream won't that restrict what people can record as most can record just one stream at a time.
I know PVRs vary, but if they have more than one stream won't that restrict what people can record as most can record just one stream at a time.