STV HD

As mentioned in the other place, STV HD is currently on test on Sky.

http://www.tvidworld.com/online/STVHD-2010-ID-1.jpg

A looped ident played out during GMTV's hours:

http://www.tvidworld.com/online/STVHD-2010-ID-RAIN-1.mp4

And at 9.25 this morning this ident into Jeremy Kyle. Watch how at the end, the SD presentation shows briefly:

http://www.tvidworld.com/online/STVHD-2010-ID-LANDMARKS-1.mp4

what channel is it on?

Theses are the test channel on the astra, I cant remember the signal details to hand

Robert, 10936v, 22000, 5/6 as far as I know.

Quite why the numbers man bothered to reply with a non-reply is beyond me!

It certainly is in the testing stage: no sound except crackling on BGT and during the adverts there have been lots of brief cuts of ITV1 (not STV) trailers, the start of Coronation Street, Jeremey Kyle, 60 Minute Makeover, plus ITV1 idents, the Movie premiere sting and ITV1HD end-of-part captions. All this, plus a few VT countdown timers.

http://www.tvidworld.com/online/BGT-2010-VT-CLOCK-1.jpg

When I checked the channel last night I noticed only cracking on a HD show, so I imagine they have some issue at the moment with audio on HD shows.

Latest on STV HD: http://www.allmediascotland.com/press_news/25810/stv-launches-hd-service-on-freeview-and-virgin-media
Launching next week on Freeview HD (where available in STV region) and Virgin Media.

Hooray!

Channel 113 on Virgin, though? Isn't that where ITV2 is just now, or has that moved already?

Why have Sky said it's starting on June 11 when there's nothing concrete from STV yet?

Think this article confirms it.

http://entertainment.stv.tv/tv/180242-stv-launches-hd-service/

And Gav, ITV1 HD is on 113 in England, with ITV2 at 115 on Virgin.

I'd certainly be interested to find out how STV HD works with regards to the network feed compared to STV SD, as they've gotten this sorted quickly. Presumably they're not playing out every show themselves, in which case network centre must be sending them a semi clean feed (devoid of the ITV1 HD dog and with VT clocks, though from the sounds of things above also still with some of the ITV1 HD pres stuff in place). Given how long they faffed around just to sort the clean SD feed just for STV/UTV, it's amazingly quick for something to have been sorted for the HD feed, unless there's a simple satellite version doing the rounds somewhere.

Anyone got any hypotheses on how they've actually managed to swing all this in such a short space of time? Come to think of it, has anyone even spotted in any of the published documents if there any regulatory requirements for network to even provide STV with a high definition feed, or is that strictly commercial stuff between themselves?

STV HD is apparently up and running on channel 113 on Virgin