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C4 to launch C4+1

Launches 20th Aug - Freeview 13, Sky 135, Virgin 143 (June 2007)

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ST
Stuart
Tumble Tower posted:
Why is there such an issue about having to rescan boxes / iDTVs when channels come and go on DTT? Rescanning is child's play, it's not rocket science. All you have to do is press a few buttons to go through a few menus, and wait a few minutes. Simple.

Tumble Dryer, perhaps it is to you. But what is my great-auntie Gladys to do after DSO?. How can she be expected to know how to re-scan her DTT box when she is still getting to grips with having a remote control and more than 3 channels! Shocked

I prefer the method Sky use on my DSat box - they just seem to lock it on to a channel for 5 mins around 10:30 in the morning and swap the EPG data over to one that they loaded into the cache while I was snoozing one night possibly weeks earlier. OK new EPG numbers, so what, Gladys never remembers them anyway Laughing
NH
Nick Harvey Founding member
Tumble Tower posted:
Why is there such an issue about having to rescan boxes?

It's only simple if you live right in the middle of an area served by just one digital transmitter, Tumbly Wumbly.

If you live in Swindon, for instance, what do you do with the three of every channel (from Mendip, Oxford and Hannington), all on the wrong channel numbers because of the duplication?

For goodness sake, think things through before you come out with one of your stupid replies, Tumbly Wumbly.
ST
Stuart
Nick Harvey posted:
....think things through before you come out with one of your stupid replies, Tumbly Wumbly.

An 11th commandment I believe Wink
Will this appear to him over this weekend in mosaic fashion?
JR
jrothwell97
StuartPlymouth posted:
Nick Harvey posted:
....think things through before you come out with one of your stupid replies, Tumbly Wumbly.

An 11th commandment I believe Wink
Will this appear to him over this weekend in mosaic fashion?


No. It'll appear in his tables of codes when he colourises each letter to its Commodore 64 BASIC notation.
JR
jrothwell97
Tumble Tower posted:
James Vertigan posted:
Tumble Tower posted:
A Former Member 4 posted:
C41H in Tumble Dryer speak then?! Laughing

Tumble Dryer speak? Do you mean me and my TV channel codes? I'm Tumble Tower actually, and the code would be 4C+1.

By the way, let's not make an issue of this here, if you want to continue discussing the code for Channel 4+1, or the other channels, please do so on the TV Channel Codes thread.


Erm... who died and made you moderator?

I'm NOT a moderator. What made you think I was one?


He didn't. Such ignorance is frightening.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhetorical_question
RO
rob Founding member
Just found this on YouTube... would I assume this music would be played on a loop?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-5IhqBZtBPQ
RT
rts Founding member
Sorry if this is already being discussed, but does this move back More4's news at 8pm inept? If anyone wanted C4 style news at 8pm they can whack on C4+1.
MA
markstewart
rts posted:
Sorry if this is already being discussed, but does this move back More4's news at 8pm inept? If anyone wanted C4 style news at 8pm they can whack on C4+1.


But an hour out of date.
RT
rts Founding member
Absolutely, but C4 is mainly reports pre-packaged during the day. It's more like a well researched Sunday paper, than a a more bland daily. Obviously if something catastrophic happens there would be an issue, and I appreciate things like votes in the commons, press conference sound bites etc would be missing on C4+1 compared to More4.

Maybe this is an opportunity for More4 to claim the 9pm news slot, with the opportunity of more viewers, two hours more thought than C4 News, whilst filling the void left by the BBC a few years ago.
LO
LONDON
rts posted:


Maybe this is an opportunity for More4 to claim the 9pm news slot, with the opportunity of more viewers, two hours more thought than C4 News, whilst filling the void left by the BBC a few years ago.


The problem with that idea, is it would cost more money for the bulletin, for example alot of the gallery staff are used in Channel 4 news, when More 4 News launched it only added half an hour to there day, putting the programme on at 9pm it would mean that they would be there for an extra hour and a half. The bulletin does not attract that larger audience, so the question that has to be asked would it be cost effective for the bulletin to be put back by and hour. Also the 9pm hour is used quite alot for extended dramas, putting the them back til 10 would mean that these dramas are put back too.
PT
Put The Telly On
rob posted:
Just found this on YouTube... would I assume this music would be played on a loop?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-5IhqBZtBPQ


Isn't that the music to the Scottish Widows or Zurich advert?
OZ
ozsat Founding member
markstewart posted:
rts posted:
Sorry if this is already being discussed, but does this move back More4's news at 8pm inept? If anyone wanted C4 style news at 8pm they can whack on C4+1.


But an hour out of date.
News being shown an hour later does not mean it is out of date - after all how often does the news of the day change between 7pm and 8pm?

Don't forget that some news channels show recorded news at times overnight.

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