PRIME will go HD (But only on SKY)

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joshhill96

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#102705 20-May-2012 13:54

Just looked at their Facebook Page, Prime will be going HD before the Olympic games onwards only for MySky users though,

Hope future endeavours will see it HD in UHF and/or Unencrypted HD on Satellite for myfreeview users

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#627936 20-May-2012 14:22

joshhill96: Hope future endeavours will see it HD and/or Unencrypted HD on Satellite for myfreeview users

It'd be a step in the right direction, for sure, to allow us poor disenfranchised satellite FTA recipients to get in HD what others are getting via DVB-T, but Sky could have done that at any time from the 'Freeview' get-go. Only political pressure would get them to change that stance, and I can't see this government putting any pressure on Sky.

I have to admit to being less and less concerned about DVB-S HD FTA though. No improvement in transmission quality is going to do anything good for the abysmal quality of the ad-riddled content.

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#627939 20-May-2012 14:31

joshhill96: Just looked at their Facebook Page, Prime will be going HD before the Olympic games onwards only for MySky users though,?

Hope future?endeavours will see it HD in UHF and/or Unencrypted HD on Satellite for myfreeview users?

I would have thought it would have been HD on sky anyway, surpirsed it wasn't. If I was an advertiser on prime FTA, I wouldn't be happy if it wasn't in HD, as that could affect people viewing the channel if it is only in SD, and thus viewing my adverts. But perhaps the advertisers aren't really that knowledgeable on those sorts of thing.

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#628000 20-May-2012 18:32

Didn't Sky put Prime in HD on their sat service for the Winter Olympics. Me thinks that they think of their DTT viewers as poor relation deserving of only seeing the Olympics in SD and stereo sound while on Sky it's HD and DD5.1

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#628104 20-May-2012 22:24

old3eyes: Me thinks that they think of their DTT viewers as poor relation deserving of only seeing the Olympics in SD and stereo sound while on Sky it's HD and DD5.1

I wonder if the advent of Igloo will change this (assuming Igloo goes ahead). I'm assuming they'll have to keep Prime on a DVB-T transponder (ie. Kordia's) since an Igloo DVB-T2 transponder would be unwatchable for 99% of the Freeview HD boxes out there. They may use that as an excuse to not take it HD on Freeview.

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#628111 20-May-2012 22:44

mm1352000:
old3eyes: Me thinks that they think of their DTT viewers as poor relation deserving of only seeing the Olympics in SD and stereo sound while on Sky it's HD and DD5.1

I wonder if the advent of Igloo will change this (assuming Igloo goes ahead). I'm assuming they'll have to keep Prime on a DVB-T transponder (ie. Kordia's) since an Igloo DVB-T2 transponder would be unwatchable for 99% of the Freeview HD boxes out there. They may use that as an excuse to not take it HD on Freeview.

I think it will go ahead considering the comcom have agreed to it.

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#628174 21-May-2012 08:35

I would say it's only HD for the duration of the Olympics & then reverting back to SD like they did for the Winter games.

Not much point being HD after the Olympics without HD content. It would be like 1-2 & 3 with their low amount of content.

Just a waste of bandwidth on the very expensive Satellite system.

IMO you wont see any more HD channels on Freeview ever. Best chance for HD content is after UFB rolls out, but even then it may not be free.

old3eyes

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#628175 21-May-2012 08:37

Actually quite a bit of stuff shown on Prime is from HD original programming..

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#628194 21-May-2012 09:19

Top Gear in HD would be great

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#628304 21-May-2012 12:44

vexxxboy: Top Gear in HD would be great

And 5.1 sound..

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#628309 21-May-2012 12:50

joshhill96: Just looked at their Facebook Page, Prime will be going HD before the Olympic games onwards only for MySky users though,

Hope future endeavours will see it HD in UHF and/or Unencrypted HD on Satellite for myfreeview users

I think this is a silly question but I am assuming that applies to Telstraclear viewers too being as they just rebroadcast the Sky feed right?

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#629175 22-May-2012 21:07

old3eyes:
vexxxboy: Top Gear in HD would be great

And 5.1 sound..

I dont think Top Gear is filmed in 5.1 surround so its not available regardless.

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#629195 22-May-2012 22:02

Philica:
old3eyes:
vexxxboy: Top Gear in HD would be great

And 5.1 sound..

I dont think Top Gear is filmed in 5.1 surround so its not available regardless.

I've seen it in HD on iPlayer, and it's eye-poppingly good!