Any news on new TV channels?

Originally Posted by Sam B

Maybe you're just looking at it the wrong way Tristan? You and I have a rating of 1 - the best! It's Proppin' that really should be trying harder...

No, he's right. You're wrong and I'm better than both of you :pp :pp :pp

[handyman]

Proppin's posts can be taken as very legit I don't know what position $ky has but I know props invovlement in digital tv and its fairly high up.

[poolking]

Originally Posted by handyman

Proppin's posts can be taken as very legit I don't know what position $ky has but I know props invovlement in digital tv and its fairly high up.

So basically rely on the information from prop?

Originally Posted by poolking

So basically rely on the information from prop?

No, not always.

[Sam B]

Originally Posted by poolking

So basically rely on the information from prop?

I can also vouch for Proppin. He won't post anything that isn't correct information. So yes.

[Rillington]

VH-2 is a lads music channel. It plays Britpop, punk, nu-metal, rock etc.

It launched on Sky late last year.

[Rillington]

As for new channels, I recall Raptrue being told that ntl is now full therefore NO new channels can launch until an analogue channel is removed or one of the zillions of shopping or hetero porn channels are removed!!

[dronkula]

Originally Posted by Sam B

Hi

There are no channel launches planned that I can tell you about at the moment - sorry!

Sam

Notice the great bit of subterfuge here?

What Sam has said isn't that there are no channel launches planned - just that there's none that we can be told about at the moment.... Just like my old boss who, when I asked him about a load of rumours about the company being sold just replied with 'Really? I haven't heard those rumours...' and the next day then announced that it had been sold...

Oh - and as for the comment about not being able to get any new channels until the shopping or porn channels close - presumably if a porn channel closes it'll just be replaced by another porn channel cos I doubt anyone else would really be interested in broadcasting from 11pm to 3am each night?

[seaneeboy]

And I imagine the porn channels are worth quite a few bob to NTL...

[asdf]

Which is exactly the same reason why porn magazines are stocked by nearly every news retailer. They are worth a lot of money

[$ky]

The 'fact' is that Front Row haven't decided if they will continue with the Near VOD that they are currently using but may use the True VOD service if it proves successful, it is the decision that they will take after other VOD services are released on the platform. And as the True VOD option would free-up room on the platform then it looks promising that they will go down this route.

Originally Posted by $ky

The 'fact' is that Front Row haven't decided if they will continue with the Near VOD that they are currently using but may use the True VOD service if it proves successful, it is the decision that they will take after other VOD services are released on the platform. And as the True VOD option would free-up room on the platform then it looks promising that they will go down this route.

As I've already said, VOD will use the current space occupied by NVOD. Theres no space being freed up.

[bigitup_j]

why would VOD need the NVOD streams? isn't VOD server end, i.e. meaning no streams used?
and, will VOD completely replace Front Row NVOD when it launches??

thanks

Originally Posted by bigitup_j

why would VOD need the NVOD streams? isn't VOD server end, i.e. meaning no streams used?
and, will VOD completely replace Front Row NVOD when it launches??

thanks

The VOD will play out of distributed servers, but in order to get to the STB's its still in the form of a QAM RF signal.

Front Row are doing the VOD as well. As already said the VOD streams will have to use the NVOD frequencies.