Freeview changes

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

That includes me. I record everything from the HD terrestrials through my aerial/Blu Ray recorder. It helps with the limited capacity on the Virgin boxes.

and here was me thinking you had hordes of capture cards and a massive raid array and recording all the streams you can get online. You using an aerial has totally shattered my illusions

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by Paul

Does anyone still use Freeview ?

I stopped receiving any kind of TV through an aerial about 20 years ago.

I have Sky, Virgin (atm), Freesat & Internet.

Yes, I've got it setup as a backup on the main TV, the main source on several secondary TVs, and as an extra tuner for recording in other instances.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

That includes me. I record everything from the HD terrestrials through my aerial/Blu Ray recorder. It helps with the limited capacity on the Virgin boxes.

I'd love to see both your watching and recording itineraries for an average day one of these days Old Boy. I'm genuinely fascinated how it all works, and still having a full Virgin box.

And you're lucky to have a bluray recorder, they're not easy to get hold of these days, and were always expensive. HDD and DVD Recorders are hard enough to find.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Paul

Does anyone still use Freeview ?

I stopped receiving any kind of TV through an aerial about 20 years ago.

I have Sky, Virgin (atm), Freesat & Internet.

A lot of people use it for secondary TV's. I also imagine that older people, people who don't watch much TV and the less affluent use it for their main TV too.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Jaymoss

and here was me thinking you had hordes of capture cards and a massive raid array and recording all the streams you can get online. You using an aerial has totally shattered my illusions

I have the streamers, too! I'm not a one-trick pony, you know.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

A lot of people use it for secondary TV's. I also imagine that older people, people who don't watch much TV and the less affluent use it for their main TV too.

I use it on the TV in the kitchen since we changed over to a V6 which didn't have a SCART output to drive the modulator. The external antenna had disintegrated but a high gain loft antenna pulls in enough signal.

The main TV is tuned in and has the HD tuner but I usually use the V6 HDMI.

[Richardr]

Government confirm that the existing licences will be rolled over:

News Release

Ministers decide Freeview platform will be supported until at least 2034

Interesting note at the end of that release…

Include a power giving Ofcom the ability to revoke licences for spectrum management reasons with the consent of the DCMS Secretary of State but require that revocation cannot take effect before the end of 2030 and that a five year notice period must apply

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I have the streamers, too! I'm not a one-trick pony, you know.

Don't tell him about your back-up VCR.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Interesting note at the end of that release…

Quote:
Include a power giving Ofcom the ability to revoke licences for spectrum management reasons with the consent of the DCMS Secretary of State but require that revocation cannot take effect before the end of 2030 and that a five year notice period must apply

Which brings us nicely to 2035!

---------- Post added at 19:44 ---------- Previous post was at 19:42 ----------

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Don't tell him about your back-up VCR.

I had about 55 VCR tapes back in the day. I was rather glad to be able to get rid of all that clutter when digital came along.

[Media Boy UK]

When will the old 5Select slot be reuse on COM4 on Freeview?

---------- Post added at 19:51 ---------- Previous post was at 19:49 ----------

Originally Posted by Media Boy

RXTV is reporting that Now 70s being UK Wide will end on August 25th.

NOW 80s will take over NOW 70's UK Wide slot from August 25th.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

When will the old 5Select slot be reuse on COM4 on Freeview?

---------- Post added at 19:51 ---------- Previous post was at 19:49 ----------



NOW 80s will take over NOW 70's UK Wide slot from August 25th.

I wonder if ITV were waiting for the government decision on the Freeview multiplex licenses before following through on the old 5Select slot.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Which brings us nicely to 2035!

---------- Post added at 19:44 ---------- Previous post was at 19:42 ----------



I had about 55 VCR tapes back in the day. I was rather glad to be able to get rid of all that clutter when digital came along.

I thought that, but then I thought it could be read as 5 years notice could be given in 2025 to close it in 2030.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I thought that, but then I thought it could be read as 5 years notice could be given in 2025 to close it in 2030.

It does mean the latter. They were given authorisation to extend multiplexes to 2034. If they couldn't enact the 5 years notice until 2030 then there would be no point as the license would expire in less than 5 years from then.

The licenses could be extended once again if there is a need, 2034 isn't a definite end point for DTT.

Plenty time to know if they are going down the 5G Broadcast route, keeping the status quo, or something else entirely.

Maybe it'll just be 1 multiplex of the legacy technology from 2034, it doesn't need to be all or nothing. So many possibilities.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

When will the old 5Select slot be reuse on COM4 on Freeview?[COLOR="Silver"]

Pardon my ignorance, but why does that even matter?

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Pardon my ignorance, but why does that even matter?

Because some people only have Freeview and would like to know if they'd get an extra channel.

Some only have DVB-T equipment, so have lost a channel after it moved and would be interested if they'd get another.

It would matter to ITV, SDN is a lucrative business for them, and there is space that isn't paying currently.

It matters to many. Illustrated by the channel losing 28% of its audience on all platforms by this one change on 1 platform.

There have been complaints along the lines of "my dad's favourite channel is 5Select and now it's not showing, why is this?" on Social Media.

Just because we don't watch doesn't mean it's not important to others, including the vulnerable.