ITV are seriously missing a trick here. The latest series of Britain's Got Talent is due to be aired in HD. They should have left the channel for a few more days and launched the HD channel to coincide with the new series.
Which regions will be represented on ITV1 HD?
We will launch with the London region followed by a roll out of regions in stages - London, North, Central, South East by June 2010.
That's going to be pretty costly in DSat bandwidth I'd have thought.
Couple of technical questions - like Sky and Freeview, do Virgin customers require a HD set top box, and on Sky do HD channels have to come from dedicated transponders, or could companies create the bandwidth for a HD channel by closing a few SD channels?
...and on Sky do HD channels have to come from dedicated transponders, or could companies create the bandwidth for a HD channel by closing a few SD channels?
HD channels and SD channels can share a transponder. In fact, ITV1 HD has been testing on ITV's 10.832H transponder which also carries some SD ITV1 regions. IIRC, some of the SD streams had to move to other transponders to accommodate the HD stream.
Which regions will be represented on ITV1 HD?
We will launch with the London region followed by a roll out of regions in stages - London, North, Central, South East by June 2010.
That's going to be pretty costly in DSat bandwidth I'd have thought.
That is just four regions - we could see the London one on a free to air transponder on Astra 2D for Freesat purposes, and the other three could sit on just one other transponder. Haven't they got that bandwidth free now?
