ITV HD

[ptercook]

i noticed ITV HD has been picked up when i do a search but nothing is being sent afaik. does this mean virgin are bringing this channel online soon?

[Devilfish]

How do you know nothing is being sent? Do you have an HD receiver?

[ptercook]

hi,yeah the 800hd. I can view bbc hd fine but itv hd is just blank with the standard dreambox error you get when you view an empty channel

[thered]

is there nothing at all on itv because i read somewhere it was coming on but had very little program content


is there much on the bbc hd channel

[ptercook]

bbc hd just run promos throughout the day then at night some quite good stuff like blue planet jonathan ross etc.

itv hd would be good for the champions league as the quality / bitrate of itv seems crap at best

[Jasmeet_87]

If your in ex-tw it's just the old trial channel they had in 2006

[lorrebreaker]

ITV HD only seem to broadcast 4 or 5 programmes per week (including some football)
But if it was available you should be seeing a screen with "ITV HD This service is currently Unavailable"

If it is being broadcast then these are the next shceduled shows:
20/10/08 21.00 Wired
21/10/08 19.30 Football: Manchester United v Celtic
25/10/08 23.10 Film: Red Dragon

(Schedule taken from ozsat on DS)

[Jasmeet_87]

The channel originally existed on a trial basis from June until November 2006, primarily to show the World Cup games to which ITV had the rights.

The channel was available to subscribers of the Telewest "TV Drive" cable service, and was also broadcast as a low-power digital terrestrial (DVB-T) channel from London's Crystal Palace Transmitter as part of a terrestrial HDTV trial involving 450 homes. ITV HD did not broadcast on Satellite TV, unlike BBC HD. It was available on Telewest channel 118 and Freeview channel 503 in homes which were involved in the HD trial.

In addition to the World Cup games, ITV HD showed classic films remastered in HD (such as All Quiet on the Western Front and The Big Sleep), documentaries (such as Jean-Michel Cousteau?s Ocean Adventures) and dramas such as Poirot.

The original ITV HD stopped broadcasting on the 30 November 2006.
ITV HD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[lorrebreaker]

ITV-HD is still broadcasting ............ just that theres not much content on it, i've watched it on the odd occasion (usually champions league) using a dvb-s2 card.

I watched the England V Kazakhstan match on it last weekend

[Jasmeet_87]

It's not broadcasting on cable though

[nivlem]

ITV HD is available via Sky or Freesat via the Red Button on selected programs such as was mentioned before Champions League.

[Jasmeet_87]

ITV HD is not available on Sky, it's Freesat exclusive.
The original post was asking about an inactive channel on Virgin, in the cable section of the forum, which as I said is left over from the 2006 trial channel.

[ptercook]

anyone know if virgin has any plans to add extra HD channels?

[Jasmeet_87]

They may have an option on C4 HD
Cable - News - 'No fixed date' for C4 HD on Virgin Media - Digital Spy

[2tone]

you can only get itv hd with a hd sat receiver at the min you can not get it on sky tv there was a big kick up about this by sky and im glad to see itv and the bbc keep it to freesat sky for now , we should see chan 4 hd soon think it come's down to there deal with sky just as chan 5 has with them maybe freesat should have done a deal give us 4 and 5 and we will give you itv hd what ever way it works out freesat can only get better