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#151501 27-Aug-2014 16:43

Sky just emailed to say they are adding HD to two more movie channels. Classic and Action. Effective from September 1.

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#1116706 27-Aug-2014 17:07

yeap i can confirm just rescanned by box and found SM Classic HD and SM action HD

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#1116708 27-Aug-2014 17:08

Did they buy more transponder capacity, or which channels took a bitrate cut?

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#1116712 27-Aug-2014 17:13

They must have been the test HD feeds that have been showing for the last few weeks.

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#1116830 27-Aug-2014 20:25

eXDee: Did they buy more transponder capacity, or which channels took a bitrate cut?

Probably the bandwith savings from making channels 1440x1080i instead of 1920x1080i :) Crafty.....

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#1116837 27-Aug-2014 20:42

rscole86: They must have been the test HD feeds that have been showing for the last few weeks.

What resolution are these feeds??, 1920x1080i or 1440x1080i.

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#1116954 28-Aug-2014 05:36

Arh bad martial arts movies in HD now.

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#1117019 28-Aug-2014 08:41

Spyware:
rscole86: They must have been the test HD feeds that have been showing for the last few weeks.

What resolution are these feeds??, 1920x1080i or 1440x1080i.

1440x1080

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#1119434 1-Sep-2014 11:07

On a semi related note:

On the 8th of December 2014, SKY TV will no longer offer the following channels:

Mind Games
Playing TV
Weather Channel

Looks like they're freeing up some more spectrum. Hopefully they will be replaced by useful channels :D

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#1119463 1-Sep-2014 11:42

Andib: On a semi related note:

On the 8th of December 2014, SKY TV will no longer offer the following channels:

Mind Games
Playing TV
Weather Channel

Looks like they're freeing up some more spectrum. Hopefully they will be replaced by useful channels :D

Honestly, who used these channels?

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#1119469 1-Sep-2014 11:46

I know of a few people that used the weather channel. The games? not so much. I remember when the weather channel and games were implemented, i believe it was early 2001, it was a terrible experience then and im not sure if it got any better.

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#1119471 1-Sep-2014 11:50

haydenmarsh:
Andib: On a semi related note:

On the 8th of December 2014, SKY TV will no longer offer the following channels:

Mind Games
Playing TV
Weather Channel

Looks like they're freeing up some more spectrum. Hopefully they will be replaced by useful channels :D

Honestly, who used these channels?

Weather Channel used to be the goto service for weather in my household.

Up until i moved out (im not around to tell if this is still the case), it was still used on a almost daily basis, due to the fact that it was "faster than the internet" - ild personally argue against that, was one of the slowest weather services i have used...

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#1119482 1-Sep-2014 12:00

hio77:
haydenmarsh:
Andib: On a semi related note:

On the 8th of December 2014, SKY TV will no longer offer the following channels:

Mind Games
Playing TV
Weather Channel

Looks like they're freeing up some more spectrum. Hopefully they will be replaced by useful channels :D

Honestly, who used these channels?

Weather Channel used to be the goto service for weather in my household.

Up until i moved out (im not around to tell if this is still the case), it was still used on a almost daily basis, due to the fact that it was "faster than the internet" - ild personally argue against that, was one of the slowest weather services i have used...

Yeah, the weather channel was good. don't know if it gets used much, maybe offer it via the ethernet port in MySky boxes?

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#1119488 1-Sep-2014 12:05

haydenmarsh:
Yeah, the weather channel was good. don't know if it gets used much, maybe offer it via the ethernet port in MySky boxes?

ild love to see a use for the ethernet for services like that.

Ild expect, it would be far more efficient.

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#1119494 1-Sep-2014 12:15

hio77:
haydenmarsh:
Yeah, the weather channel was good. don't know if it gets used much, maybe offer it via the ethernet port in MySky boxes?

ild love to see a use for the ethernet for services like that.

Ild expect, it would be far more efficient.

That's what i thought it was designed for - haven't seen it used at all for anything yet?

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#1119542 1-Sep-2014 12:44

It does seem that Sky are up to something stopping unused channels...

Some questions - how many channels of SD would have to be stopped to make space for an HD channel? I wonder if its 3? Please let it not be a compressed HD channel!

And please let it not be more paying sports channels - but as others have said something useful - like Discovery or Prime...

I don't want no sugar in it - thank you very much

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