Setanta Sport HD
 

Driving on the M25 today and saw a 2 large lorries from S Sports one of them with the logo - Setanta Sports HD splashed on the side in blue and yellow- took a pic on my phone for you non believers whilst swerving across 2 lanes of course!!

Is this in the pipeline for future broadcast.

They turned off J7 for Reigate.

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oooh - that'd be cool.

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Setanta sports in SD would be nice ;)

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The Golf Channel uses HD Yankee pictures which,although theyre not the real thing,are still far superior to basic tv pictures.

Hardly worth forking out more loot if youve got a decent tele.

Funny how the yanks are way ahead of us with HD.

Were more interested in bloody phones.

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NASN quite often has programmes sourced from HD media too

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that would be a big plus for vm as sky and bt customers would have to pay and vm could offer it free

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i read over on digitalspy ages ago that VM were offered Setanta Sports HD and turned it down so I can't see it coming to us.

Shame as they could have signed an exclusive HD deal with Setanta and then finally had a channel that Sky don't have and in HD showing Prem football

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Does anyone else find the picture on Setanta Sports a bit naff? I would have thought Sentanta in HD would be a big improvement.

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i find setanta sports picture often worse than watching a clip on utube.
Some of the compression technology used is truly awful - and i only have a 32" lcd panel, god alone knows what it looks like on a 40".

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Where's the picture?

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Never had a issue on my 42inch LCD tv

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There was a story doing the rounds last year that Setanta had proposed an HD sports channel but Sky had refused to give it carriage, making it uneconomic to run in the UK (Virgin not having sufficient enough customers to make it viable as the sole carrier).
Strangely enough, there's a thread over on Digital Spy here that also starts with the Setanta HD vans being spotted. Turns out they shoot a number of games in HD for the overseas market, but not for home consumption. Yet.

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surely someone at VM can see the logic in providing football games in HD, plus whatever else Setanta can source in HD and having it exclusive to VM.

Just look what prem football did for Sky and the amount of people that have gone Sky HD just for football.

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Hopefully the picture is attached - the Setanta logo obscured by my winscreen support.

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Another lost opportunity for Virgin Media?:mad:

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Agreed, it's absolute pants...

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Hi Redbluetwo, I believe you, as the reason is that l used to work next door, from where these lorries come from, try the A30 out of Staines towards Hounslow, its on the left where they are housed.:)

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Just been to the Falkirk v Hearts game it was being broadcast on Crapanta and there was a big truck with HD stamped on the side behind the away stand.

No mention of Crapanta Sports beside it though, just a huge HD logo.

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its not even on Sky yet so dont get your hopes up.

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did it mention setanta?

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i find the picture fine & even better on Sky. plus on Sky all of the Setanta Sports channels have freeviews everyday if you have a FTV card.

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No problems with picture quality on Setanta for me.

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I have a 40inch TV and Setanta looks pants :td:

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Hi Cable-guy, l think as VM have an greement, with Setanta, it could be on VM before Sky:)

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good point but i was just thinking in general, as most channels become available on Sky first ;)

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I thought all the plans to launch Setanta Sports HD had been shelved as VM have already said they didn't want it and so the project died a death there.

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i dont know mate 2bh maybe someone else does ?