HD Catch Up HD Inconsistencies.

DVD Cinema · 07-10-2012, 14:23

Catch Up TV HD is brilliant in it's picture quality, but it keeps missing programmes.

Gardeners World was never put up last week in HD and was late in SD. SD can be viewed for longer in Series Catch Up, but HD is not available.

Has Demand Five HD Catch Up been discontinued, as nothing at all is showing for this now? Home And Away was consistently missing episodes.

This is an ongoing issue and not recent.

Leicester.

muppetman11 · 07-10-2012, 14:35

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Originally Posted by DVD Cinema

Has Demand Five HD Catch Up been discontinued, as nothing at all is showing for this now? Home And Away was consistently missing episodes.

This is an ongoing issue and not recent.

Leicester.

I have Demand 5 on my Sky box and Home and Away is listed every day in HD , I also have the following in HD

Being Liverpool
Born to kill
Classic car rescue
Dallas
Eddie Stobart : Trucks and trailers
Emergency bikers
Heroes of the Skies
Making faces
Paddy and Sally's Excellent Gypsy ad
Person of interest
Power Rangers Samurai.

andy_m · 07-10-2012, 14:40

Every day this week has home and away listed on my TiVo, but none in hd.

geordiechris · 07-10-2012, 14:45

I only have 5 on demand in SD, no HD programmes at all from 5 on both my TiVo and V+ box

andy_m · 07-10-2012, 15:11

I've checked by channel, by day and by genre. None of the demand 5 stuff is in hd. Unfortunately I can't say I've ever really watched anything on it in the past so I can't say if there ever was hd content available.

nodrogd · 07-10-2012, 18:26

Could be due to rights problems, as stated on Channel 5's website.

andy_m · 07-10-2012, 19:01

Are Sky actually now able to say that their catch up service is better than Virgin's?

07-10-2012, 19:15

When they have BBC & C4 I imagine they will.

DVD Cinema · 07-10-2012, 21:35

Sky catch up on line service will never catch up with the 18mbps quality BBC HD Catch Up is on Virgin.

07-10-2012, 22:13

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Originally Posted by DVD Cinema

Sky catch up on line service will never catch up with the 18mbps quality BBC HD Catch Up is on Virgin.

That is the quality of the BBC HD channel. iPlayer HD on all platforms is 720p 3.5mbps.

nn012 · 07-10-2012, 22:28

As long as Sky's needs downloading and saving onto your own personal storage and waiting for it to start playing, however long, it'll never be as good as Virgin's.

muppetman11 · 07-10-2012, 23:14

Can't say I've ever really thought of it , just hit the select button and view when available but then for me it's always been about the content I'm watching over the method it's being delivered by. Once viewed press yellow and delete , with boxes now recording upto 350hrs HD can't see space ever being an issue.

If we're talking purely delivery method , cable will always have an advantage due to its two way nature , Broadband and On Demand have always been a major cable selling point.

nn012 · 08-10-2012, 00:12

Only a small minority will have the larger HDD boxes and if you need so much space it obviously shows it is an issue. Having to rely on broadband to receive content also means the quality will never be like broadcast quality.

@Jamesh
HD catchup content on V+ and V HD boxes, I'm sure, is of much higher bit rate than internet delivered HD such as iPlayer HD on TiVo.

essjay · 08-10-2012, 00:26

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

That is the quality of the BBC HD channel. iPlayer HD on all platforms is 720p 3.5mbps.

The iPlayer HD content (liberate platform) is actually 19.8mbps so DVD Cinema wasn't far off.

Mad Max · 08-10-2012, 01:07

Catch up on demand in my area recently has been a ****ing joke!!