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Can I get BBC HD?

  • 28-08-2006 1:39pm
    #1
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    sorry if this has been asked before, but I recently got a Sky HD box. Is it possbile to add BBC HD to the 'Other Channels' ?

    thanks,
    tbh.


Comments

  • #2
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    yes. it sure is

    10847 V 22.0 5/6 :)


  • #3
    Strasser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭Strasser


    Yes but you will find it is very limited (and can't be recorded on ROI card). It is really a test service and shows the same shows over and over it seems. No real relationship to program content of the other BBC channels.


  • #4
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    thanks lads, I have it now. Even looking at the clips of planet earth is brilliant!


  • #5
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    tbh wrote:
    thanks lads, I have it now. Even looking at the clips of planet earth is brilliant!

    you can get full episodes between 8 and 10 at night

    Desktop PC Boards discount code on https://www.satellite.ie/ is boards.ie



  • #6
    Strasser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭Strasser


    I think this link will give you BBC HD listings which are hard to come by when they are not in the EPG.

    http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/tvlistings

    its channel 145


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  • #7
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    Strasser wrote:
    I think this link will give you BBC HD listings which are hard to come by when they are not in the EPG.

    http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/tvlistings

    its channel 145

    Interesting site! I think it needs some work, though as some of the options don't give the correct channel list. For example, the third Northern Ireland option gives listings for BBC 1 London and ITV1 Central West!


  • #8
    trap4
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 468 ✭✭trap4


    I don't have, and don't intend to get, a Sky box. Can you get a HD FTA box to receive BBC HD? Where? How much?


  • #9
    Pal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭Pal


    good question. i'd like to know too.


  • #10
    Zaphod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Zaphod


    The number of DVB-S2 MPEG4 receivers is still fairly limited. Those which have been confirmed to work with BBC HD are:

    Humax HDCI2000 - the 'Premiere' badged PR-HD1000 also supports BBC HD.
    Pace DS810XE.
    Homecast HS5100CI - there's a review of this on DrDish TV running for last 2 weeks on Hotbird.


  • #11
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The ReelBox is reputed to work, but I haven't confirmed this.

    It is technically possible on a Skystar2 + ProgDVB and 3GHz+ PC with MPEG4 H10 codec support from 3rd party codec or X1800 ATI perhaps.

    BBC HD may change to DVB-S2, then the Skystar2 won't work, only the boxes Zaphod mentioned.

    The service is a trial ending in April 2007


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