Originally Posted by Doug P (Post 35675446)

I would love to have BBC2 Wales in England....we have BBC1 Wales on VM.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35675447)

I like the choice to ditch BBC2 Scotland when Newsnight is on. Scotland splits away from the main schedule at 11pm for 'Newsnight Scotland' which means we miss excellent reportage from somewhere around the world in favour of some horrible, parochial nonsense that deserves no place in the schedules outside of 'Reporting Scotland' at 6.30pm.

But thanks to the miracle of satellite we can choose to watch BBC2 England instead and keep up with Newsnight as viewed by the other 55-odd million people in England, Wales and NI.

Actually, there's no regionalisation on BBC2 HD at the moment so it's easier, you don't have to go into the 900s to find the alternative as the single BBC2 HD stream for the whole UK is on 109.

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35675437)

In my experience around here, people prefer to have the choice.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35675491)

Yes, but DTT customers (who make up the bulk of TV viewers) don't have the choice- that's the very problem!

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35675501)

It's only a problem if you're not used to having the choice. Most people around here are used to having the choice so it's no problem to us.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35675536)

So have you found that most Welsh people have satellite or cable* so that they can choose which version of BBC2 etc to watch?

VM in England does not give us any choice of BBC2 variants, we just have the sustaining feed. Do you have an extra slot for BBC2 England, or do you do the same as Chris and use the HD or AD version in order to access the English service?

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35677697)

Back in my school days........

Originally Posted by smallclone (Post 35677709)

Back in my school days we only had s4c. No channel 4. I literally missed out on a generation of tv shows like twin peaks, cheers, roseanne, the wonder years. Some of them were put on at 12am etc. But most were missed.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35677697)

Back in my school days it was the way we used to catch soft pr0n on channel 4. Living on the border with Wales you could get S4C as well, and back in the early days it was more like a regionalised version of channel 4 than a distinct station in its own right. If there was something worth seeing, word would get round, and you would normally find it starting on S4C about an hour later ...

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35677782)

I used to stay in Wales a lot in the eighties when it was analogue only. I found that, even when programmes in English were shown later, if they overran, the transmitter was promptly switched off at the planned time of closedown, regardless as to whether the programme had actually finished or not :shocked: