Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. I - Page 158

muppetman11 · 31-03-2010, 15:11

Are we likely to see Sky One HD now ? And the Sky Sports HD channels. Mediaboy the NGTV date for Preston is believed to be 6th April is this date the same for Wigan as Preston is our headend.

BenMcr · 31-03-2010, 15:16

Sky Basic HD channels have not been looked at as part of the review so I doubt it will be seen anytime soon

Media Boy UK · 31-03-2010, 15:20

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Are we likely to see Sky One HD now ? And the Sky Sports HD channels. Mediaboy the NGTV date for Preston is believed to be 6th April is this date the same for Wigan as Preston is our headend.

All the dates I have on areas joining NGTV is on the NGTV thread.

I have seen no date for Preston Headend joining NGTV. April 6th was the date I was given on when you local BBC Radio Channels was going to be drop from Virgin TV.

Wad_2002 · 31-03-2010, 15:53

Question from the misses...

Why isn't Eastender's broadcasted in HD. I thought BBC HD would be showing it by now.

Any ideas?

Media Boy UK · 31-03-2010, 15:56

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Originally Posted by Wad_2002

Question from the misses...

Why isn't Eastender's broadcasted in HD. I thought BBC HD would be showing it by now.

Any ideas?

Good News for her in doors.

BBC are rumoured to be set to start film in HD for broadcast on BBC HD later this year

(The following is the only link I can find - sorry). http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/techno...011846.article

TheDon · 31-03-2010, 16:13

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Originally Posted by Wad_2002

Question from the misses...

Why isn't Eastender's broadcasted in HD. I thought BBC HD would be showing it by now.

Any ideas?

Cost.

To upgrade a show to HD costs a fortune, not just in cameras and editing facilities, but entire sets have to be remade. Most TV show sets just aren't designed for HD, there's too many blemishes that don't show up in SD but are overly distracting in HD.

They've been upgrading the sets and buying in HD equipment to replace end of lifespan equipment, but it's a long process.

31-03-2010, 17:14

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Originally Posted by TheDon

Cost.

To upgrade a show to HD costs a fortune, not just in cameras and editing facilities, but entire sets have to be remade. Most TV show sets just aren't designed for HD, there's too many blemishes that don't show up in SD but are overly distracting in HD.

They've been upgrading the sets and buying in HD equipment to replace end of lifespan equipment, but it's a long process.

Sorry the only thing I agree with is the costs of set, all new cameras these days shoot a flavour of HD, editing on a MAC allows to edit in HD. Cannot speak about eastenders but a majority of footage is just down converted to SD.

Media Boy UK · 31-03-2010, 18:04

Virgin Media to offer on-demand SpongeBob over Easter.

http://www.digitalchoices.co.uk/virg...310320102.html

Info on this post was found by joglynne.

royaltiger · 31-03-2010, 18:07

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Originally Posted by Wad_2002

Question from the misses...

Why isn't Eastender's broadcasted in HD. I thought BBC HD would be showing it by now.

Any ideas?

And Holby and casualty, match of the day, in fact most of their popular shows are still not in HD

tommol · 31-03-2010, 18:10

have we a launch data for ITV 1 HD?

BenMcr · 31-03-2010, 18:16

April 2nd

TheDon · 31-03-2010, 18:39

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Originally Posted by mlayzell

Sorry the only thing I agree with is the costs of set, all new cameras these days shoot a flavour of HD, editing on a MAC allows to edit in HD. Cannot speak about eastenders but a majority of footage is just down converted to SD.

Damn, there was me thinking that editing a TV show was far more complex than buying a couple of cameras and an apple mac, I wonder why more people don't do it?

Like I said, Eastenders is currently shot on SD cameras, they are in the process of migrating to a HD set up, they are in the process of replacing end of life SD cameras with Sony HSC-300's for the studio cameras, and Sony PDW 700's for the location cameras. Nice and cheap!

That's just for the cameras, you're going to need to add HD capable broadcast monitors and control units before you can even think about using them, not to mention the editing desks which are A LOT more complex and expensive than a damn mac.

Just so you know I haven't pulled the cameras they'll use out of my ass here's an article on it dated a mere 2 weeks ago.

Media Boy UK · 31-03-2010, 18:58

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

Sky3 are holding another 'Free Weekend Pass' event on the weekend of 17th-18th April.

Details to come here - http://sky.com/freepass/

UPDATE: More Info out on Sky3 Free Weekend Pass

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...91&postcount=1

howardmicks · 31-03-2010, 19:05

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

All the dates I have on areas joining NGTV is on the NGTV thread.

I have seen no date for Preston Headend joining NGTV. April 6th was the date I was given on when you local BBC Radio Channels was going to be drop from Virgin TV.

Oh dear that does not sound good for us in preston i was also led to believe april 6th was the date we were joining NGTV,Looks lke my prediction of 31st may is gonna come true.Flaming disgrace

Media Boy UK · 31-03-2010, 19:51

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Originally Posted by howardmicks

Oh dear that does not sound good for us in preston i was also led to believe april 6th was the date we were joining NGTV,Looks lke my prediction of 31st may is gonna come true.Flaming disgrace

No launch date has been given - yet.