Vodafone TV and BBC UKTV, BBC Earth, Comedy Central and MTV

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#261864 18-Dec-2019 20:24

It is my understanding and confirmed by advertising that Sky have upgraded BBC UKTV, BBC Earth, Comedy Central and MTV to HD. I now need to know why these channels are not being broadcast in HD via Vodafone TV and will these channels be upgraded in the near future??

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#2377995 18-Dec-2019 20:41

I've actually been wondering about this myself, watching BBC Earth the other night thinking for HD it should be a bit more crisp

@sansom any news on this?

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#2378045 18-Dec-2019 21:03

Direct the question to @sansom

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#2378109 18-Dec-2019 23:58

I noticed that as well, Comedy Central loked crap. Its running at 2.5mbits definetly NOT in HD eithe

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#2378331 19-Dec-2019 10:56

HD upgrades for these channels are in budget (Harmonic encoder licence costs) and planned for our next financial year... so expect these to be upgraded to HD in April.

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#2378351 19-Dec-2019 11:20

sansom: HD upgrades for these channels are in budget (Harmonic encoder licence costs) and planned for our next financial year... so expect these to be upgraded to HD in April.

That is not good news, add this to the "issues" VTV is having, to be honest dealing directly with Sky and using their hardware is looking more attractive.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2378400 19-Dec-2019 11:41

sansom: HD upgrades for these channels are in budget (Harmonic encoder licence costs) and planned for our next financial year... so expect these to be upgraded to HD in April.

Will you be future proofing this so if Sky decide to upgrade more channels to HD then they will be quickly upgraded to HD on Vodafone TV?