ITV NEWS is it back yet ?
 

on Digital Terrestrial it is apparently only on the main London region
transmitter ( and perhaps one or two other areas of the UK ? )
on satellite ~ reception all of UK + much of Europe , OK as usual , no
change as far as I know.

Ant.

It disappeared around the time of the launch of ITV3 and the loss of
Now/Next on ITV. (Now/Next came back last week).
Can't you recieve an appology caption on ITV News?

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"David" wrote in message
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It disappeared around the time of the launch of ITV3 and the loss of
Now/Next on ITV. (Now/Next came back last week).
Can't you recieve an appology caption on ITV News?


I was under the impression that transmitters losing the ITV News Channel
while new compression kit is fitted won't have it back until early 2005?

Simon

the saint wrote:

: I was under the impression that transmitters losing the ITV News Channel
: while new compression kit is fitted won't have it back until early 2005?

I am pretty sure that it is being done on a region-by-region basis and that
some regions may have to wait until the middle of next year to get ITV News
back.

the saint wrote:

I was under the impression that transmitters losing the ITV News Channel
while new compression kit is fitted won't have it back until early 2005?

Did I see somewhere else that ITV's definition of "early" actually means
June?

They might as well just give up and go home, ITVnews had pathetic
content and presentation to start with, picture quality on all the ITV
channels appears to have plummeted since ITV3 appeared, every fade
disintegrates into digital mush, let alone when they try to squeze
ITVnews back into their half of mux2.

It disappeared around the time of the launch of ITV3 and the loss of
Now/Next on ITV. (Now/Next came back last week).
Can't you recieve an appology caption on ITV News?


nope just a wave picture thing


You may have to leave it on the channel for 30secs to a minute for the
appology screen to appear. These information screens seem slow to emerge.

However ITV news is not back yet so no joy watching dormant screen :-)

Steve

"Andy Burns" wrote in message news:41a1f02d$0

Did I see somewhere else that ITV's definition of "early" actually means June?

They might as well just give up and go home, ITVnews had pathetic content and
presentation to start with, picture quality on all the ITV channels appears to
have plummeted since ITV3 appeared, every fade disintegrates into digital
mush, let alone when they try to squeze ITVnews back into their half of mux2.

Sure it wasn't like that before? They've only exchanged ITV3 for ITV News as it
stands, so that's 3 channels into just under 12Mbps, wait until next year when
the new compression kit is installed, they'll be stat-muxing 4 channels into
12Mbps.


Az.

Aztech wrote:

Sure it wasn't like that before?

Well, I don't watch a great deal of
Trisha/Corrie/JudgeJudy/GetMeOutOfHere, but it does seem to have become
noticiably worse :-(

They've only exchanged ITV3 for ITV News as it
stands, so that's 3 channels into just under 12Mbps

Do we know that's *all* they've done so far? Has ITV3 been given (or
does it take) more bandwidth on average than ITVnews did? If so that
could explain a loss in quality. It seems that every fade on ITV is too
much for the encoder to deal with in the available bandwidth, the whole
screen breaks into obvious macro-blocks and lurches towards black or
white in a handful of steps, not smooth at all.

I've checked my signal level a couple of times when I notice this happen
(because I know my aerial doesn't cope well on mux2 when weather is
bad and I realize it would not be fair to blame encoding because of
that) but it's been in the green at about 9/10 (Sony IDTV doesn't give
exact figures)

wait until next year when
the new compression kit is installed, they'll be stat-muxing 4 channels into
12Mbps.

So are they using fixed bandwidth per channel at the moment to allow
regional opts? or switching to a more intelligent compression method? or
haven't they got enough separate feeds around the place to get all the
channels to the tx/mux locations?

"BORG" wrote in message
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Can't seem to find it.

Aberystwyth Blaenplwyf transmitter

It is not available in some areas. It is available in London from Crystal
Palace.


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John Porcella

Andy Burns wrote:
They might as well just give up and go home, ITVnews had pathetic
content and presentation to start with,

It seems to have improved recently, but I'm still at a loss to explain why
they put their ad breaks just before the half hour and hour, just like Sky
do. Moving them a little might capture some Sky News viewers for each set
of headlines, as who minds swapping one low-brow news channel for another?

picture quality on all the ITV
channels appears to have plummeted since ITV3 appeared, every fade
disintegrates into digital mush, let alone when they try to squeze
ITVnews back into their half of mux2.

It's not just a DTT problem. The quality of ITV3 on satellite is sometimes
very poor, with obvious blocking or distortion. I wonder if they have
malfunctioning equipment in there somewhere. The ITV news background, cuts
and fades also suffer.