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noggin Founding member
Pete posted:
noggin posted:
If the former, it's presumably saving the BBC a significant amount of money, as most other platforms (not sure about Virgin non-Tivo) stream from a BBC funded-CDN, which is paid for 'per bit' I expect.


iirc non-tivo used to be hosted by Virgin themselves at the headends whereas tivo connects to the server. and is rubbish and always buffers despite the "dedicated connection". pile of tripe.


Friends I know in the ISP arena are very dismissive of Virgin's broadband operation. They may have very high fibre connection speeds, but their backbone is apparently woefully out of date and under capacity. That might explain things...
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WillPS
The headend-based On Demand service isn't without problems of its own though. For one, it takes *forever* to 'catch' updates sometimes, and then if you try to start a video at peak time you'll get the infamous black screen followed by "On Demand is temporarily unavailable" several times before starting your video.

The entire Virgin network is frankly shonky; great infrastructure potential but **** hardware and network management ruins it.

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DVB Cornwall
BBC HD Channel content already removed from the iPlayer Connected Devices big screen version ... Shame it's been done early.
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A former member
[Edit] Ooops, already in the BBC 2 thread

http://tig.gy/?m=bbchd-to-bbctwohd.jpg
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A former member
The change over at 6am as shown on the EPG - from This is BBC HD to five minutes of This is BBC TWO:

http://tig.gy/?m=thisisbbctwo.jpg
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Richard
Andrew Wood posted:
The change over at 6am as shown on the EPG - from This is BBC HD to five minutes of This is BBC TWO:

http://tig.gy/?m=thisisbbctwo.jpg


I presume that "This is BBC HD" won't be the normal loop by this point, as the channel will have no more programmes to promote.
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Robert Williams Founding member
They need to stop adding schedules to the BBC HD web pages:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbchd/programmes/schedules/2013/03/26
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Blake Connolly Founding member
Richard posted:
I presume that "This is BBC HD" won't be the normal loop by this point, as the channel will have no more programmes to promote.


That's right... Smile

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/bbc-hd-test-card-special-39115/
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JAS84
Robert Williams posted:
They need to stop adding schedules to the BBC HD web pages:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbchd/programmes/schedules/2013/03/26
At least the schedule is correct, showing BBC Two's listings and not the programmes BBC HD had been airing on Tuesdays.
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MalcyB
So next week, running from the last programme on the BBC HD Channel at around 01.20am on the morning of Tuesday 26th of March untill BBC-2 HD takes over at 06.05am there will be Testcards and lots of them apparently: -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/HD-Test-Card-Special
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JAS84
^Look two posts up... Razz
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David
What will television shops do when BBC HD is replaced by BBC Two HD? There will no longer be a FTA HD channel that has 100% HD content to show off their new TVs.

Do Sky broadcast a HD channel for demonstration purposes? It seems it would be a good time for them to start.

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