Have you lost TV CH 5

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  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited December 2022 #32

    Have a look also on the BBC site for transmission news and updates. There are plans afoot for 2023 regarding HD and BBC 1. Type in transmission updates on the BBC website search. This will also help anyone having transmission problems in different locations etc.

  • DSB
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    edited December 2022 #33

    Channel 5 alive and well here on Virgin Media and also on Freeview.

    David

  • SteveL
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    edited December 2022 #34

    Noticed this in the Telegraph this morning. I suppose if it does happen it will likely be like the digital switch over, with areas of the country going at different times over several years.

    BBC could end terrestrial TV and radio in seven years
    MATTHEW FIELD


    THE BBC could switch off terrestrial television and radio by the end of the decade, the corporation’s director general has said.


    In a speech about the long-term future of the broadcaster, Tim Davie said the 100-year-old organisation needs to consider a full “switch-off” of broadcast channels to transform it into an internet-only service. He said: “A switch-off of broadcast will, and should, happen over time and we should be active in planning for it.”

    Mr Davie said the BBC should “own a move to an internet future” by 2030 and prepare for “internet-only distribution”.

    Such a shift would mean no more BBC broadcasts from TV towers after more than a century and all programmes would move to streaming.

     

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited December 2022 #35

    That is clever planning right there, the future is streaming for sure👍🏻. I get most of my content over streaming platforms. No adverts just choice when it’s wanted not when schedulers decide. Full series now not over 1-2 months. The future is here right now.

  • young thomas
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    edited December 2022 #36

    We used to have all our radio by long and medium wave, then we moved to FM, then to DAB, then to iPhone apps and Spotify etc.

    tv have taken a bit longer to evolve but has passed through many iterations, 405, 625 lines, sd, hd, 4K...internet streaming will be one of those iterations.

    The world will be full of servers and processors before long and a serious glitch means disruption of more than just our tv...

    don't see anything wrong with advancement but number of eggs and baskets comes to mind.

  • Tammygirl
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    edited December 2022 #37

    Thanks PD, have just checked our freesat and freeview tvs.

    Neither of them have ITV 2, 3, and 4 as HD channels just SD.

    Not sure if it's down to where we live or not. Lots of other HD channels available. 

  • peedee
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    edited December 2022 #38

    TG ITV 2, 3 and 4 are definitely available in HD on the satellite free to air because I have just this morning set them up on our menu. See attached. They may not be on the Freesat menu?

    peedee

     

     
  • peedee
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    edited December 2022 #39

    I just updated the software on my Humax set top box this morning and retuned Freesat and all the channels are neatly there in order including BBC3  ITV1, 2,3 and 4 HD Channels.

    peedee

     
  • Tammygirl
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    edited December 2022 #40

    Hi PD, have returned the freesat TV and have all the ITV channels in HD 😊

    Freeview Smart TV however, we do not get them. On freeview we only get BB1, BBC2, STV, CH4 and CH5, in HD.

    In the epg there are other channels that say HD but its not being transmitted so no picture. I guess it's down to what the transmitter is transmitting.

    We tune into the Dundee transmitter and get lots of channels, if we tuned into Perth I think it's about 15 channels in total.

    However they do get the option of cable TV which we don't. Its either freeview, freesat or Sky.

    Thanks for you help. 

  • peedee
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    edited February 2023 #41

    BBC have now produced more information >here.< A couple of regions, South and East have already switched. Yesterday I spent quite some time manually setting up my TV to conveniently receive all the free to air satellite HD channels. My household smart TV is not that old but I still found on checking the transponder frequencies against >LyngSat< adjustments had to be made followed by a retune.

    peedee

  • SteveL
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    edited February 2023 #42

    I just noticed Sky have updated our local BBC East Midlands 101 channel and it shows as HD.

  • peedee
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    edited March 2023 #43

    I think it is now all done and dusted on the satellite channels. Think I heard on the News Watch program this morning that Freeview (terrestrial TV) will also be completed by the end of the year. I was rather hoping Freeview would take a bit longer.

    peedee

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