Bunch of "new" channels for NTL Waterford

mike65

Bravo + 1
UK Living/+1
Television X
God Channel
and one or two others which I can't check cos my box froze on TV5 again.!

Still no ITV2 strangly.

Mike.

chorus techy

mike65 wrote:

Still no ITV2 strangly.

Well ITV2 ain't on Dublin digital either

mike65

So whats the story with ITV2? Anyone?

Mike.

Round Cable

mike65 wrote:

So whats the story with ITV2? Anyone?

Mike.

I've emailed NTL in May, enquiring about ITV2's inclusion on their epg, but got the usual reply;

"Ntl is continually evaluating channels and deciding which channels to add to our
Digital package to offer the optimum balance of programming which will appeal to
our customers. We will certainly add these channels to our considerations, and
will consider them in future decisions."

If they are only adding ITV2, FX and Challenge to their considerations now, I'd hold little hope...

chorus techy

Well, is there not some sort of rights issue involved with ITV2? And besides, in the state NTLs cable network is in, I doubt they have very much capacity. They can barely manage to deliver just over 100 channels and broadband over the network, I can't see them adding any more without a drop in PQ.

GerardKeating

mike65 wrote:

Bravo + 1
UK Living/+1
Television X
God Channel
and one or two others which I can't check cos my box froze on TV5 again.!

Still no ITV2 strangly.

Mike.

Same in Galway,

We got (new this week)

Living TV (124/125)
UK Drama (151)
Euro News (203)
Disc Channell +1 (209)
TVX (858)
Godf Channel (816)


125/209 aint working yet, on the EPG, but no signal


I think gives us the full range of Dublin.

Marcopolo85

chorus techy wrote:

Well, is there not some sort of rights issue involved with ITV2? And besides, in the state NTLs cable network is in, I doubt they have very much capacity. They can barely manage to deliver just over 100 channels and broadband over the network, I can't see them adding any more without a drop in PQ.

Presumably you're talking about Dublin? Don't know whether or not you actually work for Chorus, but you're making an awful lot of assumptions....

The tax man

Marcopolo85 wrote:

Presumably you're talking about Dublin? Don't know whether or not you actually work for Chorus, but you're making an awful lot of assumptions....

I'd have to agree with you there.

Capt'n Midnight

God channel - which religion is that ?

And what percentage of the population belong to it ?

It's just an advertising channel.

mike65

Just added this week

Euronews (exellent) and a bunch of music channels including Smash Hits. Kerrang, Q and The Box. I think we now have the full set.

Mike.

Marcopolo85

Marcopolo85 wrote:

Presumably you're talking about Dublin? Don't know whether or not you actually work for Chorus, but you're making an awful lot of assumptions....

The sound of silence.......

cdc

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

God channel - which religion is that ?

It's a Protestant channel, but for Protestants who refuse to call themselves Protestants and insist they are [north American accent] 'Christian' [/north American accent].

celticfc

Are the two sets of networks all the same now? - Dublin Listings

mike65

I think we're just missing Zee TV and Prem Plus (?)

Mike.

paulm17781

Zee tv is an additional channel, I assume prem plus is too. I noticed last night (Dublin) that I have MGM movies, where did that come from?

celticfc

mike65 wrote:

Prem Plus (?)

It is called PPV Football on the EPG, but in essence it's only Prem Plus.

paulm17781 wrote:

I noticed last night (Dublin) that I have MGM movies, where did that come from?

More info here. (Joined platform in early April)

GerardKeating

paulm17781 wrote:

Zee tv is an additional channel, I assume prem plus is too. I noticed last night (Dublin) that I have MGM movies, where did that come from?

Galway has everything on the EPG cept 808 - Zee TV

Some of the +1 (Living/Bravo) have actually worked, but they are on the EPG.

Magic dissappeared for a few days when living arrived, but came back.

chorus techy

Marcopolo85 wrote:

Presumably you're talking about Dublin? Don't know whether or not you actually work for Chorus, but you're making an awful lot of assumptions....

No, sorry, my post twas a bit unclear. What I meant was that the analogue channels take up nearly half of the 1Ghz spectrum on the cable, and there are still remnants of scrambled sky sports channels coming in on the cable too. Analogue channels take up huge amounts of space, so in order to be able to provide broadband too, it doesn't leave very much space for digital too.

The tax man

chorus techy wrote:

and there are still remnants of scrambled sky sports channels coming in on the cable too.

Eh I don't think so.
Sky Sports 1 was switched off months ago.

Marcopolo85

The tax man wrote:

Eh I don't think so.
Sky Sports 1 was switched off months ago.

Agreed.

If a cable system is capable of, say, 550 MHz, then it could support some 50 analogue channels. Given that there are only 17 analogue channels, that would leave 33 'multiplex' spaces available. There are currently only 13 multiplexes in use on NTL.

chorus techy

Don't forget they need capacity for broadband.

But anyways, sorry for my stupidity - I'll go and sit in the corner and think about what I've done

Marcopolo85

chorus techy wrote:

Don't forget they need capacity for broadband.

But anyways, sorry for my stupidity - I'll go and sit in the corner and think about what I've done

No problem. It isn't stupidity- all of us get confused at one point or another.
Just one more thing. The broadband multiplex only takes up the same amount of bandwidth as a Digital multiplex. Broadband upstream (from the home) takes up only a nominal amount of bandwidth also.

Gadgie

Would someone please post a complete channel line-up for Waterford City? I was thinking of taking up NTL's super-duper broadband offer for new customers (free connection, first 3 months free, 12 months free basic tv) and getting the digital with that, but I was looking on the ntl website and they don't list half the channels for Waterford and Galway as they do for Dublin.

mike65

There's a thread on this board which lists them all off. You'll have to do a search.

Mike.

Marcopolo85

Gadgie wrote:

Would someone please post a complete channel line-up for Waterford City? I was thinking of taking up NTL's super-duper broadband offer for new customers (free connection, first 3 months free, 12 months free basic tv) and getting the digital with that, but I was looking on the ntl website and they don't list half the channels for Waterford and Galway as they do for Dublin.

Are you talking analogue or digital? They now have much the same digital line-up as Dublin, and the analogue has one or two more services than in Dublin.

Gadgie

Marcopolo85 wrote:

Are you talking analogue or digital? They now have much the same digital line-up as Dublin, and the analogue has one or two more services than in Dublin.

The digital. I was/am waiting for Smart, but if they don't announce rollout in Waterford soon I'll go with ntl. The possibility of getting the digital service for only a tenner a month (free basic tv for 12 months) on top of the bb sub was an extra incentive, but I felt rather shortchanged when I looked on the ntl website and saw most of the channels I was bothered about were only available in Dublin.

I was wondering if maybe somebody in Waterford could post all the channels they can get here. I guess ntl aren't too bothered about updating the website when they're due to evacuate soon (or have they already been sold to MS Cable Holdings?).

celticfc

Gadgie wrote:

The digital. I was/am waiting for Smart, but if they don't announce rollout in Waterford soon I'll go with ntl. The possibility of getting the digital service for only a tenner a month (free basic tv for 12 months) on top of the bb sub was an extra incentive, but I felt rather shortchanged when I looked on the ntl website and saw most of the channels I was bothered about were only available in Dublin.

I was wondering if maybe somebody in Waterford could post all the channels they can get here. I guess ntl aren't too bothered about updating the website when they're due to evacuate soon (or have they already been sold to MS Cable Holdings?).

Proper updated chan list here.

A lot of channels were recently added to the Wat/Gal line-ups to bring them in line with the Dublin service.

The ntl site is way out-of-date.

icdg

Gadgie wrote:

I guess ntl aren't too bothered about updating the website when they're due to evacuate soon (or have they already been sold to MS Cable Holdings?).

Indeed they already have, their website now carries a disclaimer that the NTL name is being used under licence and that NTL Group Limited don't have any control over the content of the website.

Gadgie

icdg wrote:

Indeed they already have, their website now carries a disclaimer that the NTL name is being used under licence and that NTL Group Limited don't have any control over the content of the website.

I emailed ntl to ask for an updated channel list, and their reply had that disclaimer tacked on. They replied the next day, however the list they sent me was out of date! (see attachment)

I went ahead and ordered broadband and digital anyway. Ordered Monday and having it installed Friday. I am impressed! They have definitely improved since I last had dealings with them. I suppose I should wait until it is all up and running before praising them too much though... ;-)