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Mad Max 25-09-2018 18:02
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Freesports wont appeal much to the football fan, Bull Riding!! lol, looks like there's quite a lot of rugby on there, womens hockey etc, doesn't appeal to me at all.

mot12 25-09-2018 18:28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Max (Post 35964393)
Freesports wont appeal much to the football fan, Bull Riding!! lol, looks like there's quite a lot of rugby on there, womens hockey etc, doesn't appeal to me at all.
Ladies in bikinis in HD kind of Bull Riding?

Who needs Sky Sports lol

I watched a bit of Ice Hockey and it kept me hooked for about 2 minutes the picture was good, it made a change from the abysmal SD Freesports picture. I wont be watching the channel much though.

cheekyangus 25-09-2018 18:37
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FreeSports had some NHL ice hockey last season, no idea if they will this season. They have UK ice hockey league this year and I think UK basketball league coverage (they certainly did last season).

There is football, though it's more the likes of Benfica Vs Desportivo Aves full replay I saw when I put the channel on this morning to check the picture quality.

mot12 25-09-2018 18:42
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Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 35964400)
FreeSports had some NHL ice hockey last season, no idea if they will this season. They have UK ice hockey league this year and I think UK basketball league coverage (they certainly did last season).

There is football, though it's more the likes of Benfica Vs Desportivo Aves full replay I saw when I put the channel on this morning to check the picture quality.
A chance to check the HD quality of GOLDHD at 8. There wont be many opportunities.

OLD BOY 25-09-2018 18:50
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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35964389)
It's not
According to the TV & Satellite Week, 5 USA is on channels 141 and 169. I thought that indicated the SD and HD numbers, but I now see I made a mistake. Sorry!

muppetman11 25-09-2018 18:56
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35964404)
According to the TV & Satellite Week, 5 USA is on channels 141 and 169. I thought that indicated the SD and HD numbers, but I now see I made a mistake. Sorry!
On my box 141 is 5 USA (SD) and 169 is BBC Alba :D

The 5 USA catch-up seems to be available in HD but there is no HD linear channel.

alwaysabear 25-09-2018 19:03
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Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 35964386)
Although i'm a fan of the UKTV channels don't see much point of Gold in HD, most of the programmes weren't made in HD.
Agree . ITV made a lot of series using film in the sixties and seventies eg Persuaders ,so HD is possible for those series.

paul0363 25-09-2018 21:29
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Don't know if this has been mentioned or not! From the "Customer News" section on the V6 box (Home>Help&Settings>Help>Customer News>HD as Standard recordings &...):

" We want you to enjoy your favourite TV at its best, so we're swapping some of your standard definition channels for their high definition versions.

This means you'll lose some standard definition channels from your TV guide, but they'll be replaced with their better looking counterparts.

In some cases you might lose your standard definition recordings after 3 months if they were taken from a channel that is now "vacant".

You might also have to adjust your Series Link for these channels (if you use them) or switch to using Series Link+ to make sure you're getting episodes from all available channels.

Plus, don't forget that recorded HD programmes will take up more space on your TV Box."

BenMcr 25-09-2018 22:01
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Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 35964378)
Interesting decision to replace Gold SD with Gold HD rather than having both available, as there are many other TV channels that they could do the same but haven't done, for example 4Seven, Paramount Network, Quest, CBBC, Cbeebies, BBC News, Nat Geo Wild, History, Crime + Investigation, all of the Sky Cinema channels, and all of the BT Sport channels.

They have incorrectly labelled FreeSports HD as Freesports HD in the EPG.
Those all launched whilst there were still SD only V boxes on the network, so both versions were needed.

Those boxes are all either swapped or decommissioned now, and the remaining boxes with Scart outputs can downscale HD. So there is no need to have both an SD and HD version of Gold.

There are quite a few other HD only channels on Virgin Media now.

Bob 25-09-2018 22:22
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by paul0363 (Post 35964428)
Don't know if this has been mentioned or not! From the "Customer News" section on the V6 box (Home>Help&Settings>Help>Customer News>HD as Standard recordings &...):

" We want you to enjoy your favourite TV at its best, so we're swapping some of your standard definition channels for their high definition versions.

This means you'll lose some standard definition channels from your TV guide, but they'll be replaced with their better looking counterparts.

In some cases you might lose your standard definition recordings after 3 months if they were taken from a channel that is now "vacant".

You might also have to adjust your Series Link for these channels (if you use them) or switch to using Series Link+ to make sure you're getting episodes from all available channels.

Plus, don't forget that recorded HD programmes will take up more space on your TV Box."
I'm guessing they weren't specific about which ones?

SonicMaster 25-09-2018 22:27
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35964429)
Those all launched whilst there were still SD only V boxes on the network, so both versions were needed.

Those boxes are all either swapped or decommissioned now, and the remaining boxes with Scart outputs can downscale HD. So there is no need to have both an SD and HD version of Gold.

There are quite a few other HD only channels on Virgin Media now.
Hence my point that they could do the same, but have not so far.

Given what has been spotted in Customer News maybe we are about to see many other SD versions removed.

paul0363 25-09-2018 22:32
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob (Post 35964431)
I'm guessing they weren't specific about which ones?
No - what's posted is a word for word copy of what's in the Customer News section - there is no more info there :)

RichardCoulter 26-09-2018 03:05
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 
Just read that Box Nation has been removed from Sky, is it still broadcasting on VM (I don't subscribe to it)?

ozsat 26-09-2018 05:43
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 
It is still on Sky
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35964442)
Just read that Box Nation has been removed from Sky, is it still broadcasting on VM (I don't subscribe to it)?

OLD BOY 26-09-2018 07:23
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Another music channel goes to the dogs with VH-1 becoming a lifestyle channel. I really liked this music channel when we first got it on cable - I think it is a real pity that its programming changed, and this is the last straw. I won't be watching VH-1 ever again now.

Just as well we have YouTube.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2018...style-channel/


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