I know it's not the Olympics but it would be nice if one mux could be held back and used for the Commonwealth Games (and Wimbledon before hand) before being handed over for new channels.
Great news about BBC One regional variants finally becoming available in HD but can anybody tell me why they haven’t been available on Sky before? Has it been down to a capacity issue with satellite space or something to do with carriage fees maybe? Or do you think the BBC didn’t want to roll it out on Sky until they could also offer the same service on DTT/Freeview etc? Just interested to know, because obviously the regional ITV HD service has been available on Sky for some time now.
Any info would be greatly appreciated (and apologies, as I’m sure this has been discussed before, I’m just struggling to find it on here).
Worth just noting a difference between the five new HD channels, which are definitely happening and were approved by the Trust the other week, and One regions/Two nations which are proposals which will be put before the Trust.
Worth just noting a difference between the five new HD channels, which are definitely happening and were approved by the Trust the other week, and One regions/Two nations which are proposals which will be put before the Trust.
Has it been confirmed whether these new channels (and bbc regional variations) will appear on Sky or not? An HD version of every BBC One region will be very expensive, especially in addition to SD versions.
Worth just noting a difference between the five new HD channels, which are definitely happening and were approved by the Trust the other week, and One regions/Two nations which are proposals which will be put before the Trust.
Has it been confirmed whether these new channels (and bbc regional variations) will appear on Sky or not? An HD version of every BBC One region will be very expensive, especially in addition to SD versions.
They'd be mad NOT to carry BBC 3, 4, Cbbebs and News on Sky, but equally mad if they do carry HD versions of the English regions on satellite.
I suspect (and hope) the English regions will be DTT and Cable only.
"The new channels - BBC News HD, BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD, CBeebies HD and CBBC HD - will launch by early 2014 and will be offered to all digital television platforms that carry HD channels"
Make of that what you will I guess ... not sure about the English regions.
Worth just noting a difference between the five new HD channels, which are definitely happening and were approved by the Trust the other week, and One regions/Two nations which are proposals which will be put before the Trust.
Has it been confirmed whether these new channels (and bbc regional variations) will appear on Sky or not? An HD version of every BBC One region will be very expensive, especially in addition to SD versions.
The 5 New Channels will have to appear on Sky, any new BBC Channel has to appear on all Digital Platforms.
If the BBC One and Two Regions HD are approved they might not do it all in one go, I'd expect them to launch the BBC Two Nations HD first and maybe BBC One North West HD BBC One London HD just to trial it out, whats going to be more expensive than adding new channels is the fact that all the regions are going to have to be upgraded to HD, Only BBC London and Salford will be too my knowledge, I'm not sure about the Nations. This will include upgrading the galleries and buying new cameras for all of them - I expect the upgrades will happen in a similar way to the BBC Regional Set Updates between 2008 and 2013 spread out to spread the cost. I expect the upgrades would happen at the same time as a new set or something.
I suspect (and hope) the English regions will be DTT and Cable only.
Again the BBC would still have to offer it on all platforms. Even if this doesn't get the BBC Trust Green Light it will have to happen anyway as in about 10 years HD will be standard and they'll start to phase out SD. Eventually there won't be [Channel Name] HD as the standard version will be in 1080. And then soon it will all be about UHD.
Worth just noting a difference between the five new HD channels, which are definitely happening and were approved by the Trust the other week, and One regions/Two nations which are proposals which will be put before the Trust.
Has it been confirmed whether these new channels (and bbc regional variations) will appear on Sky or not? An HD version of every BBC One region will be very expensive, especially in addition to SD versions.
The 5 New Channels will have to appear on Sky, any new BBC Channel has to appear on all Digital Platforms.
If the BBC One and Two Regions HD are approved they might not do it all in one go, I'd expect them to launch the BBC Two Nations HD first and maybe BBC One London HD just to trial it out, whats going to be more expensive than adding new channels is the fact that all the regions are going to have to be upgraded to HD, Only BBC London will be too my knowledge, I'm not sure about the Nations. This will include upgrading the galleries and buying new cameras for all of them - I expect the upgrades will happen in a similar way to the BBC Regional Set Updates between 2008 and 2013 spread out to spread the cost. I expect the upgrades would happen at the same time as a new set or something.
I don't think the point of having regional BBC One HD is so that the regional news is in HD - it's more the fact that we currently have to keep switching channels for regional content. I would be very surprised if regional newsrooms were upgraded to HD any time soon.
On a side note, obviously NWT could be done in HD and I think Scotland is ready for HD.
Worth just noting a difference between the five new HD channels, which are definitely happening and were approved by the Trust the other week, and One regions/Two nations which are proposals which will be put before the Trust.
Has it been confirmed whether these new channels (and bbc regional variations) will appear on Sky or not? An HD version of every BBC One region will be very expensive, especially in addition to SD versions.
The 5 New Channels will have to appear on Sky, any new BBC Channel has to appear on all Digital Platforms.
If the BBC One and Two Regions HD are approved they might not do it all in one go, I'd expect them to launch the BBC Two Nations HD first and maybe BBC One London HD just to trial it out, whats going to be more expensive than adding new channels is the fact that all the regions are going to have to be upgraded to HD, Only BBC London will be too my knowledge, I'm not sure about the Nations. This will include upgrading the galleries and buying new cameras for all of them - I expect the upgrades will happen in a similar way to the BBC Regional Set Updates between 2008 and 2013 spread out to spread the cost. I expect the upgrades would happen at the same time as a new set or something.
I don't think the point of having regional BBC One HD is so that the regional news is in HD - it's more the fact that we currently have to keep switching channels for regional content. I would be very surprised if regional newsrooms were upgraded to HD any time soon.
On a side note, obviously NWT could be done in HD and I think Scotland is ready for HD.