Sky News HD Ch 517

kbell

Coming soon Ch 517
Just a countdown to the elections showing at the moment here...

pa990

any test's ongoing at the moment ?

ISAA

is this channel fta hd ?

frankie55

its encrypted at the moment so i guess not

gtg60

Looks like it'll be another channel in the basic HD pack, didn't work with my FTV card either.

big_moe

jesus just watching this channel now... stunning picture - great launch! i was getting 19,900Kbps on my dreambox dm800 :eek: highest i've ever seen

pa990

whats the freq?

dxhound2005

12382 H details here

http://www.flysat.com/28east-hd.php

There are feeds on 8 West which I couldn't get and this on on 7 East strong signal great picture on AzBox.

feed on 11014V 6666 Auto 4:2;2 7e

Minstrel27

big_moe wrote: »

jesus just watching this channel now... stunning picture - great launch! i was getting 19,900Kbps on my dreambox dm800 :eek: highest i've ever seen

Looking at it now it is clutter free. I don't epect that to last though.

big_moe

seriously lads/girls i dont usually harp on about sky hd quality but Sky News HD is UNREAL... well the leaders debate was anyway... lets see how they last xox

scart

Watching it at the moment and WOW stunning picture quality. Hope the dont reduce the bit rate on it. Puts the BBCHD channel to shame!

Minstrel27

scart wrote: »

Puts the BBCHD channel to shame!

This wouldn't be a hard task.

snaps

Is it FTV or part of the HD pack?

Oat23

snaps wrote: »

Is it FTV or part of the HD pack?

HD Pack, it's Sky after all.

gtg60

snaps wrote: »

Is it FTV or part of the HD pack?

Doesn't work on FTV cards, see my post a few above yours.

snaps

gtg60 wrote: »

Doesn't work on FTV cards, see my post a few above yours.

Sorry i must have flicked past your post when scrolling!

corm500

Sky News HD launches May 6th



Quote:
Sky News HD, the UK’s first high definition news channel, will launch on election night, May 6th, following the success of the Sky News Debate, which was simulcast in HD as a preview of the new channel.

http://corporate.sky.com/documents/p...s_Release_0910

Stinicker

corm500 wrote: »

Sky News HD launches May 6th



Quote:
Sky News HD, the UK’s first high definition news channel, will launch on election night, May 6th, following the success of the Sky News Debate, which was simulcast in HD as a preview of the new channel.

http://corporate.sky.com/documents/p...s_Release_0910

This is going to launch to fanfare but quickly dissapoint when the various crappy newsfeeds come in from all over the world. Those almost grayscale crappy NTSC feeds from America will ruin it and wait until they show some mobile phone footage of some event. All it will allow me to do is see Kay Burleys pores or how haggard and burned out from drink looking Glen Oglaza is. It will be a waste of transponder space especially when not FTA, they should concentrate of getting some decent HD channels up there instead.

corm500

[/QUOTE]This is going to launch to fanfare but quickly dissapoint when the various crappy newsfeeds come in from all over the world. Those almost grayscale crappy NTSC feeds from America will ruin it and wait until they show some mobile phone footage of some event. All it will allow me to do is see Kay Burleys pores or how haggard and burned out from drink looking Glen Oglaza is. It will be a waste of transponder space especially when not FTA, they should concentrate of getting some decent HD channels up there instead.

I have to say though that the quality on the Sky News HD preview is amazing. Possibly the best HD picture on Sky

big_moe

agree with corm500. studio stuff and proper outdoor footage will look stunning. yeah some feeds will be ropey but thats on every HD channel. more often than not sky sports, espn, eurosport etc have some Brazilian division 3 first round volleyball match shot on an ipod which looks $hite

Star Bingo

corm500 wrote: »

I have to say though that the quality on the Sky News HD preview is amazing. Possibly the best HD picture on Sky

those preview films were brilliant. i wish they had another channel dedicated to em..

alas normal service has resumed. you're all right in one sense or another - i guess (almost) anything sky news themselves film will be shown in cutting edge HD but then almost every other source will disappoint. Stinicker makes a good point of this. i can see already there's even in-studio prerecorded footage in SD.. but of course sky's version of SD is good as it gets, so its going to be confusing.

still, BBC HD n Sky News HD are major updates to the EPG far as quality output goes so we're doing alright. primitive neanderthal TV3 keeping retarded ITV HD off the EPG is not a big issue, but C4 HD is still missed

galtee boy

Star Bingo wrote: »

those preview films were brilliant. i wish they had another channel dedicated to em..

alas normal service has resumed. you're all right in one sense or another - i guess (almost) anything sky news themselves film will be shown in cutting edge HD but then almost every other source will disappoint. Stinicker makes a good point of this. i can see already there's even in-studio prerecorded footage in SD.. but of course sky's version of SD is good as it gets, so its going to be confusing.

still, BBC HD n Sky News HD are major updates to the EPG far as quality output goes so we're doing alright. primitive neanderthal TV3 keeping retarded ITV HD off the EPG is not a big issue, but C4 HD is still missed

Got Sky HD installed at the weekend and I have to say while Sky are well able to charge for their services, they sure deliver on picture quality. Sky News HD is stunning ( when showing true HD material obviously ) and Sky Sports HD is also way above anything I've seen on BBC HD. I also think that National Geo HD and Discovery HD also look stunning compared to BBC HD. Am I too harsh on the BBC or are the bit rates for the above mentioned channels, way above BBC HD's bitrate ?
By the way, I need to know for somebody else, do you have to pay the €15 extra pm to get Sky News HD or would you get it, if you had a HD box, normal sub, but not the HD sub ?

Star Bingo

nah u won't get it w/o the HD sub.. but ITV HD n BBC HD are in 'other channels' so they'd get those.

-n yeah on the discovery/Nat Geo HD. i prefer to look at wildlife & architecture in HD sooner than people.. no offense people..

dubmick

anyone think the quality of the SD channel has improved? looks like it to me. Maybe it's just the graphics.

Star Bingo

here i just heard before 9 and again now on Sky News 'Irish protestors storming government buildings over bank bailout' .. but come RTE's 9 News there's nothing! too immediate/hot a topic for ours?

EDIT: briefly mentioned at the end. sky sensationalizing it seems.. but then the news seemed to have reached london before it reached dublin itself

John mac

Star Bingo wrote: »

nah u won't get it w/o the HD sub.. but ITV HD n BBC HD are in 'other channels' so they'd get those.
..

bbchd is available on 143 without the hd sub.

Star Bingo

John mac wrote: »

bbchd is available on 143 without the hd sub.

accessible through the EPG w/o sub? also will have to add ITV HD to other channels, it won't just be there already. 'scuse ;-

Minstrel27

Star Bingo wrote: »

accessible through the EPG w/o sub?

Yes.