ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

So one reason for the lack of HD programmes is material. This makes me
think of cinema films available almost 100% on 35mm film. Of course now
giving way to digital 'prints' and projection. These will be a source of
HD material, but do the TV broadcasters not use these but get them supplied
in some other form in which quaulity is lost?
If good quaulity movies can be used then these represent a large number of
TV hours.

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David

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ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:12:49 -0000, "David" wrote:

So one reason for the lack of HD programmes is material. This makes me
think of cinema films available almost 100% on 35mm film. Of course now
giving way to digital 'prints' and projection. These will be a source of
HD material, but do the TV broadcasters not use these but get them supplied
in some other form in which quaulity is lost?
If good quaulity movies can be used then these represent a large number of
TV hours.

I might be wrong but I think I read somewhere that a TV broadcaster has to pay
extra for an HD version of a movie.

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

In message , David
wrote
So one reason for the lack of HD programmes is material. This makes
me think of cinema films available almost 100% on 35mm film. Of course
now giving way to digital 'prints' and projection. These will be a
source of HD material, but do the TV broadcasters not use these but get
them supplied in some other form in which quaulity is lost?
If good quaulity movies can be used then these represent a large number
of TV hours.



Good quality movies are not a cheap source for filling hours of TV. Cost
is a factor why there isn't a lot more HD content on Free to Air TV.
--
Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

David wrote:
So one reason for the lack of HD programmes is material. This makes
me think of cinema films available almost 100% on 35mm film. Of course
now giving way to digital 'prints' and projection. These will be a
source of HD material, but do the TV broadcasters not use these but get
them supplied in some other form in which quaulity is lost?
If good quaulity movies can be used then these represent a large number
of TV hours.

Most of C4's HD content are movies, but as others have pointed out, for
various reasons they can be expensive to show.



--
Mark
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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David wrote:
So one reason for the lack of HD programmes is material. This makes me
think of cinema films available almost 100% on 35mm film. Of course now
giving way to digital 'prints' and projection. These will be a source
of HD material, but do the TV broadcasters not use these but get them
supplied in some other form in which quaulity is lost?
If good quaulity movies can be used then these represent a large number
of TV hours.

Most of C4's HD content are movies, but as others have pointed out, for
various reasons they can be expensive to show.


Oh so Ch4 does some HD, is it a separate channel like BBC HD or press red
button like ITV?
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David

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On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:13:11 -0000, "David" wrote:



"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
David wrote:
So one reason for the lack of HD programmes is material. This makes me
think of cinema films available almost 100% on 35mm film. Of course now
giving way to digital 'prints' and projection. These will be a source
of HD material, but do the TV broadcasters not use these but get them
supplied in some other form in which quaulity is lost?
If good quaulity movies can be used then these represent a large number
of TV hours.

Most of C4's HD content are movies, but as others have pointed out, for
various reasons they can be expensive to show.


Oh so Ch4 does some HD, is it a separate channel like BBC HD or press red
button like ITV?

I think it's on Sky, not Freesat.

(From a Sky-free home.)

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:13:11 -0000, "David" wrote:

Oh so Ch4 does some HD, is it a separate channel like BBC HD or press red
button like ITV?

I think it's on Sky, not Freesat.

Yes it's FTV using Sky's encryption system. Most of the time it's just SD C4
upconverted to HD, but even that looks ten times better than SD C4 as seen via
DTT or D-Sat, because of course the bit rate is 10-15 Mb/s MPEG4, rather than
3 Mb/s MPEG 2.

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Mark
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"David" wrote in message
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Oh so Ch4 does some HD, is it a separate channel like BBC HD or press red
button like ITV?
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it's a whole seperate channel.
the upside of this is that even with the SD stuff, you get to watch it on a
high bitrate channel that looks lots better than regular channel 4.



--
Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Peter Duncanson wrote:


I think it's on Sky, not Freesat.

Yes it's FTV using Sky's encryption system. Most of the time it's just SD
C4 upconverted to HD, but even that looks ten times better than SD C4 as
seen via DTT or D-Sat, because of course the bit rate is 10-15 Mb/s MPEG4,
rather than 3 Mb/s MPEG 2.

It gets more complicated then the HD story, wonder if it will get worse.

I'll blame the Government for it, they seem to mess all things up these
days.


--
Yours in Jesus.
David

ITV and HD, have they stopped?
 

David wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
Peter Duncanson wrote:


I think it's on Sky, not Freesat.

Yes it's FTV using Sky's encryption system. Most of the time it's
just SD C4 upconverted to HD, but even that looks ten times better
than SD C4 as seen via DTT or D-Sat, because of course the bit rate
is 10-15 Mb/s MPEG4, rather than 3 Mb/s MPEG 2.

It gets more complicated then the HD story, wonder if it will get
worse.
I'll blame the Government for it, they seem to mess all things up
these days.

I blame religious nutters!