ITV1 Pictures on DSat

This type of distortion when entering and leaving an ad break can also be seen on Channel 4, although it is much less of a problem - is this the same system?

Ooh good...somebody get capturing...The TV Room's Channel Idents are out of date (i.e. they're ITV not ITV1)

DSS works pretty well with soft encryption, and it *can* actually be used to restrict viewing of certain streams based on the post code. The streams also don't have to be fully encrypted. It's not that obvious how it works, and I won't try to explain - last time I tried to explain to people it just left them with a sore head

In any case, I as confident that we will be able to view all channels at launch, so I doubt DSS will be used for restriction purposes

Yes I think it is. If you try to effectively hard-switch two digital signals you are bound to get a small glitch. It can be minimised but it is still there. The process allows more channels to be crammed into a transponder, as most of the time the multiple channels are only one so you use less bandwidth. As I say though, I am fairly certain that this kind of switching is incompatible with hard encryption because when the stream changes the card will be thrown off because it's suddenly being reset and being asked for a new set of decryption information.

So does this mean all the regions are online for the foreseeable future? No ditching it in a week or so?

I've been watching Carlton London so far today - are there any other particularly good ITV regional news programmes worth taking a look at?

William

Hopefully not.

First time I've seen 16 regions of news in 4 minutes!

Channel is currently broadcasting Meridian, so it seems they are not strictly online (they take their ITV feed from Southampton anyway don't they?)

An example of some of the ITV1 regions I received earlier:
http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/ikonboard/upload/i1.jpg

http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/ikonboard/upload/i2.jpg

http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/ikonboard/upload/i3.jpg

http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/ikonboard/upload/i4.jpg

http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/ikonboard/upload/i5.jpg

http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/ikonboard/upload/i6.jpg

Am I the only one who doesn't have EPG listings? I just get

'Further schedule information is not available'

I get that for the first second when I change the channel but after that the now and next listings appear

'This is Carlton Television, part of ITV1. A very good evening to you. Now at 6.30 it's the ITV Evening News.'

Now that is a proper continuity announcement! And with that ident everyone liked when it was brought up in the thread when HTV turned to the new idents. I thank you Carlton!

Cheers, Asa

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