C4 HD Coming to Freesat in April

mjsmyth

Freesat have confirmed through their Twitter feed, that C4 HD is coming to Freesat in April.

http://twitter.com/#!/freesat_TV/status/32703551822102528

evilivor

mjsmyth wrote: »

Freesat have confirmed through their Twitter feed, that C4 HD is coming to Freesat in April.

http://twitter.com/#!/freesat_TV/status/32703551822102528

Excellent news!

Rick_

Yay! Been waiting for this to be confirmed for a while now. I imagine it is taking the slot that is spare on the BBC HD transponder, so I will update the table around April time with the new tuning details.

Cantona's Collars

We know some of the Freesat channels are broadcast FTA before they are officially on the Freesat EPG. Will this be the case with Ch4HD.?

GeneHunt

evilivor wrote: »

Excellent news!

+1:D:D:D:D:D

stimpson

Yay. Great news indeed.

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.php/c4hd-to-launch-on-freesat

Rick_

zerks wrote: »

We know some of the Freesat channels are broadcast FTA before they are officially on the Freesat EPG. Will this be the case with Ch4HD.?

As Channel 4 HD will have to be on Astra 2D before it can broadcast in the clear for rights reasons, they will have to start a test on the transponder which may run for a week or two before launch. Around mid-late March you may see some Channel 4 HD tests starting. Unless they have struck a deal to remain on the Sky transponder they are on and go FTA from there, in which case you won't see a thing for free until the day of launch.

Minstrel27

This is good news indeed.

celticfc

Brill

homer911

Excellent

200motels

Will it be on the Sky EPG over here?

Badgermonkey

Good to see Freesat get 'em at last.

Are bricks and mortar retailers in ROI allowed sell Freesat boxes?

Argos don't carry them as they do in the UK.

stimpson

I got my Humax in Newry (I was up north anyway)

Some of the online sat retailers here carry them too.

STB

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Good to see Freesat get 'em at last.

Are bricks and mortar retailers in ROI allowed sell Freesat boxes?

Argos don't carry them as they do in the UK.

Nothing illegal about selling them.

DID sell them.

Rick_

I imagine that with Channel 4 HD's move to 2D, a new HD channel will take it's old place and launch on Sky... Film 4 HD perhaps...?

mjsmyth

200motels wrote: »

Will it be on the Sky EPG over here?

No idea, but I would presume that it can be added to Other Channels.

JDxtra

Paddy C wrote: »

I imagine that with Channel 4 HD's move to 2D, a new HD channel will take it's old place and launch on Sky... Film 4 HD perhaps...?

Film 4 HD is a Virgin Media exclusive. It would depend how long the current exclusivity deal is for.

lgs 4

its great news for freesat with over 1 3/4 million views in uk alone that should bust sells roll on april ,ps who knows may E4 hd and FILM 4 hd by the end of the year that would be the icing on the cake

Rick_

JDxtra wrote: »

Film 4 HD is a Virgin Media exclusive. It would depend how long the current exclusivity deal is for.

It launched on 20th July 2010 so maybe the exclusivity deal was for the first year? We could see Film 4 HD on Sky over the summer this year?

huggs2

just 3 weeks to go and i am free of upc tv.Great news all round.
http://www.freesat.co.uk/news-and-views/whats-new

Nowso

good news ! One thing i havnt seen lately is any freesat software updates

byte

Oh good. Another HD channel FTA is good news.

pa990

Brilliant stuff

Technique

What sort of programmes are on C4HD? Is it a simulcast of C4? And is it true HD programmes, upscaled SD, or a mixture of both?

Pat Gleeson

Technique wrote: »

Is it a simulcast of C4?

Yes it is.

Technique wrote: »

And is it true HD programmes, upscaled SD, or a mixture of both?

A mixture of both. A similar amount to ITV / BBC 1 HD, perhaps a little more.

Rick_

Channel 4 HD is a direct simulcase of Channel 4. Any programmes in HD are shown that way and everything else is upscaled. A good portion of their home made and imported shows and films are in HD already and it's increasing all the time.

Technique

Good to hear that. Getting rid of my basic Sky+ package at €24pm and buying a Humax Freesat+ instead. The vast majority of what I watch is on 'normal' channels anyway.

Stinicker

Brilliant News, I wonder will the boffins at Freesat be able to lure FIVE HD onto the platform?

NIMAN

Five I could live without. Its the equivalent of tabloid TV.

JDxtra

Five also said that they could not afford to launch a HD channel. Then, Sky stepped in and before you know it - there is Five HD - but it's exclusive to Sky. I assume they are locked into another one of those Sky exclusivity agreement. At the start I believe they only had Home and Away and Neighbours in HD!

Rick_

Sky helped Channel 4 start up Channel 4 HD so who's to say Channel 5 won't do something similar once their contract is up? Richard Desmond owns Channel 5 now and has his own media empire, and I'm pretty sure Murdoch and him don't get along, Channel 5 have already ended their contract early with Sky News to provide their news programmes, so perhaps getting out of any Sky related contracts is also a priority for him. I imagine once suitable space is available on 2D then Channel 5 HD and the spinoff's will move over and become FTA like Channel 5 is at the moment, but this may not happen until late 2011 or even 2012 when the satellites are up and running.

slave1

great news, broadcasts catching up with TV specs, programs will be the same obviously but looking forward to quality improvement (will eat more hard drive space though)