UKTV channels going FTA

STB.

Home, Eden, Gold, Yesterday, Dave, Good Food, Watch, Alibi, Drama and Really.

They have just moved to narrow beam DVB-S 12129 V 27500.

Announcement apparently due....

ftakeith

STB. wrote: »

Home, Eden, Gold, Yesterday, Dave, Good Food, Watch, Alibi, Drama and Really.

They have just moved to narrow beam DVB-S 12129 V 27500.

Announcement apparently due....

I hope its true as they would gain many new viewers

Charles Slane

STB. wrote: »

Announcement apparently due....

This would be good news. Any source for the announcement being due?

Harry Palmr

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/rumours-of-uktv-going-fta/

I'd not count any channels until they appear but here's hoping....I need Top Gear twice a day every day

ftakeith

Harry Palmr wrote: »

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/rumours-of-uktv-going-fta/

I'd not count any channels until they appear but here's hoping....I need Top Gear twice a day every day

make up for the loss of bbc3 in 2016

lertsnim

Finally

lgs 4

Yes it would great addition to Freesat ,but would it be at lower bit rate ? So if your 4K the picture quality will be crap ,finger crossed

Harry Palmr

It'll be SD only. People who buy 4k tvs deserve all the eye strain they get frankly.

STB.

Harry Palmr wrote: »

It'll be SD only. People who buy 4k tvs deserve all the eye strain they get frankly.

And this is exactly where I'd surmise it is all coming from. Sky are going down this road and further away from SD services.

Meanwhile the BBC, ITV (including its ITV encore), Channel 4 and Channel 5 all renegotiated their re-transmission fees to zero on Sky's platform, meaning Sky do place a value on content.

Other channels are now trying to re position themselves. It would make sense that UKTV could have both facilities, by having an SD presence on one and HD etc on the other. They are already on the other platforms anyway.

There has been speculation that this would happen last year when their satellite carriage contract with Sky ran out. This coincided with lots more space on the narrow beams becoming available.

lgs 4

Harry Palmr wrote: »

It'll be SD only. People who buy 4k tvs deserve all the eye strain they get frankly.

Good one

ftakeith

STB. wrote: »

And this is exactly where I'd surmise it is all coming from. Sky are going down this road and further away from SD services.

Meanwhile the BBC, ITV (including its ITV encore), Channel 4 and Channel 5 all renegotiated their re-transmission fees to zero on Sky's platform, meaning Sky do place a value on content.

Other channels are now trying to re position themselves. It would make sense that UKTV could have both facilities, by having an SD presence on one and HD etc on the other. They are already on the other platforms anyway.

There has been speculation that this would happen last year when their satellite carriage contract with Sky ran out. This coincided with lots more space on the narrow beams becoming available.

SD for freesat and HD for pay tv channels, most of UK TV's content is repeats so it will like having the bbc I-player for content we missed 6 months ago

FRIENDO

STB. wrote:

Other channels are now trying to re position themselves. It would make sense that UKTV could have both facilities, by having an SD presence on one and HD etc on the other. They are already on the other platforms anyway.

STB. wrote:

And this is exactly where I'd surmise it is all coming from. Sky are going down this road and further away from SD services.

STB. wrote:

Meanwhile the BBC, ITV (including its ITV encore), Channel 4 and Channel 5 all renegotiated their re-transmission fees to zero on Sky's platform, meaning Sky do place a value on content.

STB. wrote:

There has been speculation that this would happen last year when their satellite carriage contract with Sky ran out. This coincided with lots more space on the narrow beams becoming available.

This will be great for freesat, we already have uktv channels on freeview in Wexford, with the exception of Gold and alibi.
Getting all these new channels on freesat will be excellent especially if it includes Gold

dublinman1990

I tried to tune them in. Nothing there at all.

What gives.

DopeTech

dublinman1990 wrote: »

I tried to tune them in. Nothing there at all.

What gives.

They're not FTA yet.

The Cush

this from a link on another forum

said Darren Childs, chief executive, UKTV. “We pay relentless attention to our ever-increasing reach and distribution, ensuring modern British viewers can enjoy our vibrant channels and imaginative shows, whichever kind of television provision and technology they have: free, pay or online only.”

http://www.tvbeurope.com/uktv-hits-highest-ever-profits-72-2-million/

ftakeith

The Cush wrote: »

this from a link on another forum

if the sd channels are on freesat, their reach will beat the 100m from the above link in the future

dublinman1990

I don't know this at all but four of UKTV's channels can be played on the UKTV Play on demand service website in the Republic of Ireland. That is fantastic news.

http://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/help/

So far it consists of Dave, Drama, Really & Yesterday being playable in Ireland.

Hoagy

dublinman1990 wrote: »

I don't know this at all but four of UKTV's channels can be played on the UKTV Play on demand service website in the Republic of Ireland. That is fantastic news.

http://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/help/

So far it consists of Dave, Drama, Really & Yesterday being playable in Ireland.

Not playable for me in Wicklow yet anyway.

Edit: Working now once I disabled the VPN

STB.

dublinman1990 wrote: »

I don't know this at all but four of UKTV's channels can be played on the UKTV Play on demand service website in the Republic of Ireland. That is fantastic news.

http://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/help/

So far it consists of Dave, Drama, Really & Yesterday being playable in Ireland.

Yes including the On Demand (their server is based here!).

and live https://www.filmon.com/tv/live

Discovery Quest on demand too....http://www.questtv.co.uk/video/

greenspurs

Hi guys...
Been trying to enter the code/frequencies for the FTA channels in my mothers,
Im getting a "No Signal" pop up...
She has the other Fta channels, can get Film4, but cant get E4, Can get More4+1 , but cant get More4.
Anyone got any ideas what the problem could be.
In summary, She is getting some FTA channels, but not them all. The signal Test shows a fairly good signal .

The Cush

greenspurs wrote: »

She is getting some FTA channels, but not them all. The signal Test shows a fairly good signal .

How good is the fairly good signal, also more important how good is the signal quality reading?

Rick_

Perhaps this would be better suited to a different thread, it hasn't got anything to do with the UKTV channels, which aren't FTA (yet?).

greenspurs

pad e wrote: »

Perhaps this would be better suited to a different thread, it hasn't got anything to do with the UKTV channels, which aren't FTA (yet?).

do y'think ......
:rolleyes:

Harry Palmr

Its obviously got sod all to do with UKTV channels coming to Freesat.

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

I can get uk tv channels on free sat here no bother...

Tony

Well I think you will get more help by starting a new thread then you will by taking a thread off topic, just sayin.

greenspurs wrote: »

do y'think ......
:rolleyes:

MBSnr

^^^

happening Drama/Yesterday/Really Channels.. For now

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=80570812&postcount=58

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/freesat-data-for-uktv-channels.html?m=1

greenspurs

1st world problems......
Jaysus.....

Harry Palmr

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/freesat-data-for-uktv-channels.html?m=1

Social media forums in Ireland also report that UKTV's free-to-air services have been made available on UKTV Play from today, a service which was previously geo-blocked to the UK.

lertsnim

Dave's online catch up service has been available here for ages. I used it months ago.

gordongekko

So are they still scrambled or not?

Harry Palmr

Yes.

gordongekko

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Yes.

I'm still lost

Harry Palmr

Yes they are still scrambled. Simples enough!

STB.

gordongekko wrote: »

I'm still lost

Patience Gordon. Encryption is easily turned off.

Its the waiting game for now.

L1011

This going, and my January paycheque as this months one is rather committed already, will see the end of my UPC TV subs.

New dish (as my brother in law managed to break it, it was at ground level), aerial, bit of wiring, two Foxsat HDRs, set the bedroom one to record every episode of Homes Under The Hammer that the BBC shows/repeats and that's my need for UPC gone. Discovery Home&Health (for HUTH) and Dave are our background noise channels, and the nearly 50 quid a month they cost will pay for the kit very quickly

ITV2

Looks like it's happening soon..

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/freesat-data-for-uktv-channels.html?m=1

gordongekko

STB. wrote: »

Patience Gordon. Encryption is easily turned off.

Its the waiting game for now.

Cheers i wasnt at home to check and was a little lost to the answer "yes" to a question that didnt have a yes or no answer

Movie Maestro

ITV2 wrote: »

Looks like it's happening soon..

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/freesat-data-for-uktv-channels.html?m=1

This is fantastic news Any chance this could happen before Christmas?

MBSnr

ITV2 wrote: »

Looks like it's happening soon..

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/freesat-data-for-uktv-channels.html?m=1

See post #27.. ;-)

200motels

Are they free on Sky platform?

lertsnim

They aren't free on any satellite platform yet.

Harry Palmr

200motels wrote: »

Are they free on Sky platform?

No, you get them as part of the basic channel package (at least I assume that's the case and they are not a fancy-dan premium price)

If you mean are these channels on the same satellites as the SKY channels? Then yes - the SD transmissions be moved from behind the Sky pay wall and integrated onto the Freesat EGP.

ftakeith

Harry Palmr wrote: »

No, you get them as part of the basic channel package (at least I assume that's the case and they are not a fancy-dan premium price)

If you mean are these channels on the same satellites as the SKY channels? Then yes - the SD transmissions be moved from behind the Sky pay wall and integrated onto the Freesat EGP.

Yesterday is part of the Sky Variety package so far

One More Toy

GODDAMMIT I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW!

Would be nice before Christmas

Widescreen

From reading the thread I am assuming that Gold won't be included as FTA, pity about that, we could have watched all that Fools and Horses at Xmas...

lertsnim

Nobody knows what channels will be FTA yet

ftakeith

Widescreen wrote: »

From reading the thread I am assuming that Gold won't be included as FTA, pity about that, we could have watched all that Fools and Horses at Xmas...

get the complete fools and horses episodes on dvd

StreetLight

Confirmed for Really, Yesterday and Drama going free-to-air:

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/freesat-finally-confirms-uktv-additions.html

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/uktv-channels-to-land-on-freesat/

ftakeith

StreetLight wrote: »

Confirmed for Really, Yesterday and Drama going free-to-air:

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/freesat-finally-confirms-uktv-additions.html

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/uktv-channels-to-land-on-freesat/

2nd confirmation

Freesat is better than freeview now as with a Humax freesat Freetime you can choose the part of the UK you want

I have the basic sky package alongside freesat/saorview

enfant terrible

Will these show up on a sky fta card or just free sat systems?