ITV HD

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:36:28 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Werner Heisenberg wrote:

Sorry about (programmers) my spoll chucker facked up. Read programs
instead.


No !! Programs run on computers, it's programmes that you watch on your TV set.


Call the police, it's worse than I thought!
Werner Heisenberg

I used to be uncertain on principle but now I am just undecided.

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:38:06 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:
Because ITV HD is a red-button service the programmes are unrecordable.
This must surely reduce the number of potential viewers.

I don't have to press any 'red button' to watch ITV HD on my satellite
receiver, and can record it like any other service from that receiver. Not
that I've bothered to.

What type of satellite receiver are you using? I have a Freesat box:
Humax Foxsat HDR.

In Freesat mode this has only one HD channel in the EPG table and
channel list - BBC HD. ITV HD is not listed as a selectable channel. To
watch ITV HD I have to select ITV1 London rather than than UTV, the
normal channel for my postcode. When a programme in HD starts I need to
press the red button to switch from SD to HD.

To record a programme from ITV HD I need, again, to select ITV1 London
in the EPG, move the highlighting to the programme I want to record and
press OK. I am then given the choice to record in SD or HD. The only
indication that an ITV programme is available in HD is at the top of the
EPG screen when an HD programme is highlighted.

If I switch the box to non-Freesat mode additional HD channels are
listed, some scrambled. ITV HD is not in the list.

In another thread someone gave some technical information about why the
channel carrying ITV HD is not listable as a normal channel.