LukeChandler: Has Freeview realsed a date for when they play to do HD via Satellite? I know Sky does HD from the same satellite.  

RustyGonad: 3067 or never which ever comes second...

rscole86:

RustyGonad: 3067 or never which ever comes second...

It would also need to be changed to PayView before they would want to do that.

1080p: Possibly something to do with the astronomical cost associated with bandwidth on satellites?

RustyGonad:

1080p: Possibly something to do with the astronomical cost associated with bandwidth on satellites?

As opposed to the astronomical amount of taxpayer funds soaked up by Kordia, Freeview, and others to deliver the DVB-T network, which is full (according to Freeview themselves), and delivers HD coverage to, "some" of the country, and all the expansion capacity of a dead camel, unless they manage to coerce Sky into releasing some spectrum...

Jaxson:

LukeChandler: Has Freeview realsed a date for when they play to do HD via Satellite? I know Sky does HD from the same satellite.  

Yeah sorry, but you make some assumptions there which aren't valid.
Fundamentally, Freeview don't plan to do HD via Satellite, so hence no date has been released.

openmedia:

RustyGonad:

1080p: Possibly something to do with the astronomical cost associated with bandwidth on satellites?

As opposed to the astronomical amount of taxpayer funds soaked up by Kordia, Freeview, and others to deliver the DVB-T network, which is full (according to Freeview themselves), and delivers HD coverage to, "some" of the country, and all the expansion capacity of a dead camel, unless they manage to coerce Sky into releasing some spectrum...

Capcity - There is room for several more channels on DTT, especially on the MediaWorks Mux. Also don't expect channel 100 to be round forever. With luck this will transition to a Prime HD or other HD service at some point.

Expansion - The network was designed to grow to 5 multiplexes post Analogue switch off.

Coverage - Looks like they might get the funding for 87% of the population.

Satellite - Until Optus put up another bird at 160E don't expect too much as Sky have booked all the other NZ focused capacity.

The biggest issue is who can afford to broadcast. We don't have a huge line up of niche broadcasters wanting channels like the UK or other markets.

RustyGonad:

openmedia:

RustyGonad:

1080p: Possibly something to do with the astronomical cost associated with bandwidth on satellites?

As opposed to the astronomical amount of taxpayer funds soaked up by Kordia, Freeview, and others to deliver the DVB-T network, which is full (according to Freeview themselves), and delivers HD coverage to, "some" of the country, and all the expansion capacity of a dead camel, unless they manage to coerce Sky into releasing some spectrum...

Capcity - There is room for several more channels on DTT, especially on the MediaWorks Mux. Also don't expect channel 100 to be round forever. With luck this will transition to a Prime HD or other HD service at some point.

Expansion - The network was designed to grow to 5 multiplexes post Analogue switch off.

Coverage - Looks like they might get the funding for 87% of the population.

Satellite - Until Optus put up another bird at 160E don't expect too much as Sky have booked all the other NZ focused capacity.

The biggest issue is who can afford to broadcast. We don't have a huge line up of niche broadcasters wanting channels like the UK or other markets.

Expansion - A quote from Freeview themselves - which confirms they DONT own the expansion capacity:

"Freeview – That’s correct, TVNZ has very little capacity left on its own DTT and Satellite muxes. However, there is still capacity on TVWorks and Kordia muxes (e.g. the Freeview|HD demo channel is spare capacity). It does depend on whether new offerings are SD or HD as to how many new services can be added. For example, we would hope that Prime, C4 and Maori Televison will go HD in the future. It’s logical therefore, that some capacity needs to be reserved for these services. For DTT the current MED proposal (Goto MED Digital Futures website for more information) allows for a further seven DTT muxes(sets). Having said that, Sky has rights to four of those and as yet no public plans on what it is going to use that capacity for, the Racing board have rights to one set and the allocation of the other two sets is still to be determined. For DTH any further capacity on the same polarity as the current Freeview services, is held by Sky so the potential for expansion on DTH for HD / 3D services is currently not possible."

Coverage - 87% is still 13% short of a hundy (and they're not there yet) - which if they had some forsight and planning and used DVB-S/S2 is what they would have (ie 100%), just like Sky... But this would have taken some strategic planning, with companies like Optus, and would have consigned Kordia to the scrap heap.  Plenty of low cost broadcasters worldwide leasing space on Birds, and yet we keep hearing it isn't sustainable...

How much taxpayer money gets poured into Freeview & Kordia that could have funded a Satellite based service???  Anyone got any real answers, other than the standard its coming Freeview reteric...

sbiddle: For those who want to hear a fantastic interview about the future of Freeview check out the podcast on the Radio NZ site for Media Watch from around 2 weeks ago. Freeview went into a lot of detail about their plans for the future.