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gottago
benjy posted:
Am I wrong in thinking Channel 4 were going to be involved in Freesat?
I'm pretty sure they've never been part of it. In fact originally they had no plans to have their channels on the service.
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benjy
gottago posted:
benjy posted:
Am I wrong in thinking Channel 4 were going to be involved in Freesat?
I'm pretty sure they've never been part of it. In fact originally they had no plans to have their channels on the service.


I think actually I was getting it mixed up with Kangaroo, which is only the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
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Stuart
I quite like the logo they are showing on DS. I've only seen the purple version (shown in the OP) before.

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/160x120_itv_hd.jpg
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benjy
StuartPlymouth posted:
I quite like the logo they are showing on DS. I've only seen the purple version (shown in the OP) before.

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/160x120_itv_hd.jpg


It's from the official ITV HD website - http://www.itv.com/hd/
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Stuart
benjy posted:
It's from the official ITV HD website - http://www.itv.com/hd/

Ahh, so it is. Shame DS couldn't be bothered spending 10 seconds blanking out the rest of the pic to just leave the logo:

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/itv_hd_logo.jpg
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Markymark
gottago posted:
benjy posted:
Am I wrong in thinking Channel 4 were going to be involved in Freesat?
I'm pretty sure they've never been part of it. In fact originally they had no plans to have their channels on the service.


Well, at 10:30hrs this morning the E4 and More 4 streams went FTA.
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bilky asko
Markymark posted:
gottago posted:
benjy posted:
Am I wrong in thinking Channel 4 were going to be involved in Freesat?
I'm pretty sure they've never been part of it. In fact originally they had no plans to have their channels on the service.


Well, at 10:30hrs this morning the E4 and More 4 streams went FTA.


Yes, they did want to be part of it, but since they had a contract with Sky they couldn't - until now.
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noggin Founding member
bilky asko posted:

Yes, they did want to be part of it, but since they had a contract with Sky they couldn't - until now.


Presumably by continuing with their FTV encrypted regional C4 streams on Astra 2A (a wide beam that covers lots of Europe and thus for rights reasons needs to be encrypted) they are still running with their C4 contract with Sky.

It is just that they are additionally providing a FTA unencrypted stream for freesat on the narrower Astra 2D beam (which rights holders accept as UK/Eire - though can be received on big dishes across Europe - but not as easily as 2A)

Not sure about the E4 situation though.
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harshy Founding member
They have been testing on Sky using the logo on Page 1, they have been showing a loop of Canary Wharf.
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remlap
The actual logo they are using on their tests

http://i28.tinypic.com/2drzx2d.jpg
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Joe
Nasty colour. Much prefer the black!
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dbl
I was hoping ITV would make a nice logo for their HD channel, how wrong was I...

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