More BBC HD coming soon

reboot

BBC 3 HD and CBBC HD channel 40 IOM,

dublinman1990

reboot wrote: »

BBC 3 HD and CBBC HD channel 40 IOM,

Great Stuff. What are the frequency for these channels on Satellite?

Peter Rhea

They aren't broadcasting on any platform yet. It's old news anyway, been known about more or less since Feb. 2013.

steveon

These are not coming till some time early 2014.

mike65

and BBC4 obviously.

steveon

mike65 wrote: »

and BBC4 obviously.

and bbc news.

Machinehead

From the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23326709

Can't really glean from the article if BBC Three of Four are becoming full time channels.
Seems like Four will continue to share with CBeebies
"CBeebies HD and BBC Four HD will share a channel since they will not be broadcast at the same time".
"Two of the BBC's new channels -BBC Three HD and CBBC HD - will utilise existing unused capacity", does this mean that they will continue to share a slot or become standalone channels with longer broadcasting hours?
Perhaps better asked on the satellite forum.

whitebriar

reboot wrote: »

BBC 3 HD and CBBC HD channel 40 IOM,

On preseli,it's just a black screen with a message 'coming soon',is that what you have?

mrdtv2010

December 10th. That's when they will be live on Virgin cable in the UK, so presumably same date for other platforms. Astra 2F is now in position and is expected to be fully operational soon. UTV HD is currently testing on satellite. See lyngsat. The additional 600Mhz DVB-T2 channels are currently operating only from CP with an Al-Jazeera HD promo loop on E33 at 15.5 kW (note the different in power with current post-DSO ERP of 200kW)

Rick_

Where did you get that date from mrdtv2010?

Ronnie Raygun

Dec. 10th is mentioned on UK cable forum rumour threads.

mrdtv2010

IIRC its in a Virgin leaflet somewhere. UTVHD is on satellite on 4th November according to their twitter feed.

Rick_

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

Dec. 10th is mentioned on UK cable forum rumour threads.

Could you link me to that particular post/forum please?

Also, if there is a leaflet somewhere, has anyone actually seen it or can provide a copy of it?

Ronnie Raygun

Was certainly mentioned here: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11/33695265-coming-soon-virgin-tv-2013-vol-page-119.html

Seems like a busy thread, so you will have to go back a good few pages to find posts from a week ago.

Mr Cumulonimbus

Machinehead wrote: »

"Two of the BBC's new channels -BBC Three HD and CBBC HD - will utilise existing unused capacity", does this mean that they will continue to share a slot or become standalone channels with longer broadcasting hours?

Sharing as they do now I think. The 303 Red Button HD service is being removed from the mux to allow them to go on.

http://www.a516digital.com/2013/03/uk-terrestrial-tv-multiplex-capacity.html

See info on PSB3.

TAFKAlawhec

BBC Three & BBC Four are to remain evening/nighttime channels only with their current timeshare arrangement with CBBC & Cbeebies.

On terrestrial, only CBBC and BBC Three HD channels will be available to all Freeview HD viewers, taking the 5th slot on the BBCB multiplex which current has BBC Red Button HD.

BBC Four, CBeebies & BBC News HD are only being carried on the new/temporary COM7 & COM8 DVB-T2 multiplexes that'll be rolled out to about less than half of the main TX sites in the UK. In Northern Ireland, only Divis will carry the two multiplexes - and at reduced power compared to the main six Freeview multiplexes.

All the relevant BBC HD channels mentioned above should also be on satellite at 28.2E around the same time of its launch on terrestrial and cable platforms.