ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Pity seeing all the absolute junk on satellite that they couldn't find
the space for a few really good channels;!...

Someone must watch it otherwise there'd be little point in transmitting
it. Even all the god channels.

It doesn't matter if nobody watches the god channels - it's enough if they
*believe* that people are watching.

Rod.
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ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Pity seeing all the absolute junk on satellite that they couldn't find
the space for a few really good channels;!...

Someone must watch it otherwise there'd be little point in transmitting
it. Even all the god channels.


Indeed..

One the other nite I chanced across looked like it was set o the uplink
point over a 3 G fone and the sound .. well tin cans and string would
sound better;!...
--
Tony Sayer

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

In article , Mark Carver
scribeth thus
tony sayer wrote:


Wasn't suggesting for a moment they -snap their fingers- Dave, seems to
me that theres no real direction or plan for PSB on HD...

There is a huge plan.

Doesn't seem to be that well publicised or the TV trade doesn't know
anything about it.. I use _trade_ in a manner which it might once have
been;(..

It involves converting Mux B from DVB-T1 to DVB-T2
format from the end of this year, and transmitting three, four later PSB HD
channels in the mux. At that point the PSBs might get their arses in gear, and
step up the programming.

However, yet again the platform where there's already oodles of bandwidth
available for FTA/FTV HD services seems to be taking a back seat ?


Quite.. Seeing the bandwidth available...

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Tony Sayer

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Only the BBC is PSB these days. If part of the licence fee was used
to pay ITV etc to go HD I'm sure they'd jump at it.

I'm not sure that's right (I'm *almost* sure it's wrong ;-) ). Surely
the ITV1 licence from OfCom includes PSB obligations - news
programming, local programming (yes, I know, seriously under
pressure), religious programming etc. And the same goes - I believe -
for Channel 4. Not sure about Five.

André Coutanche

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:09:43 -0000, "André Coutanche"
wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Only the BBC is PSB these days. If part of the licence fee was used
to pay ITV etc to go HD I'm sure they'd jump at it.

I'm not sure that's right (I'm *almost* sure it's wrong ;-) ). Surely
the ITV1 licence from OfCom includes PSB obligations - news
programming, local programming (yes, I know, seriously under
pressure), religious programming etc. And the same goes - I believe -
for Channel 4. Not sure about Five.

All of the main "terrestrial" channels are "public service" in that the
operate under licences stating certain programming obligations.

According to the article in Wikipedia, Five has an obligation to show
educational programmes. That includes documentaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel...imited#General

General
....
....
As a public service broadcaster, Five is required to show educational
programmes, including some moderately successful documentaries, such as
the Hidden Lives series. Documentaries on art, mainly presented by Tim
Marlow, have also been well received. In 2005 Five acquired another public
service fig leaf - the rights to the annual Royal Institution Christmas
Lectures.

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Only the BBC is PSB these days. If part of the licence fee was used
to pay ITV etc to go HD I'm sure they'd jump at it.

I'm not sure that's right (I'm *almost* sure it's wrong ;-) ). Surely
the ITV1 licence from OfCom includes PSB obligations - news
programming, local programming (yes, I know, seriously under
pressure), religious programming etc. And the same goes - I believe -
for Channel 4. Not sure about Five.

All of the main "terrestrial" channels are "public service" in that the
operate under licences stating certain programming obligations.

Indeed. But retrospectively applying the requirement to make/transmit HD
progs would be met with howls of protest - and ignored.

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ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

:-)
LOL!!!

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:00:57 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

It doesn't matter if nobody watches the god channels - it's enough if they
*believe* that people are watching.

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:00:57 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Pity seeing all the absolute junk on satellite that they couldn't find
the space for a few really good channels;!...

Someone must watch it otherwise there'd be little point in transmitting
it. Even all the god channels.

It doesn't matter if nobody watches the god channels - it's enough if they
*believe* that people are watching.

Of course, the omniscient (all-seeing) god may be watching. But even he might
have delegated the watching task to his Cosmic brand PVR.

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

On 2009-01-03, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:

All of the main "terrestrial" channels are "public service" in that the
operate under licences stating certain programming obligations.

Indeed. But retrospectively applying the requirement to make/transmit HD
progs would be met with howls of protest - and ignored.

I'd love to see Ofcom attempt to retroactively force the public service
broadcasters to remake all their programmes in HD...

--
David Taylor

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

David Taylor wrote:
On 2009-01-03, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:
All of the main "terrestrial" channels are "public service" in that the
operate under licences stating certain programming obligations.
Indeed. But retrospectively applying the requirement to make/transmit HD
progs would be met with howls of protest - and ignored.

I'd love to see Ofcom attempt to retroactively force the public service
broadcasters to remake all their programmes in HD...

That's the sort of thing the IBA used to do. The ITV companies were all
required to be producing programmes in colour by 1969, providing Teletext by
1974, and making programmes with stereo sound by 1991 ISTR ?

Ofcom are a toothless substitute really.

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Mark
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