BBC News HD now testing

[Dave_]

BBC News HD has started testing off EPG, and can be manually tuned on 11023 H 23000 8PSK DVB-S2 (for those with freesat or generic/FTA receivers)

Currently labelled as 8921

 

[strapped for cash]

Cheers Dave.

It would have been more exciting if the BBC was testing BBC Four HD, but that's not your fault!

 

[psurquhart]

BBC News HD has started testing off EPG, and can be manually tuned on 11023 H 23000 8PSK DVB-S2 (for those with freesat or generic/FTA receivers)

Currently labelled as 8921

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Hi dave75 - excuse my lack of knowledge here (not sure what a generic/FTA receiver means) but will this work on Sky HD boxes if manually tuned ?

 

[Dave_]

It already is. See my other posts

All the content has been upscaled SD upto now though, as the HD playout suite isnt quite ready yet.

 

[Dave_]

No. You can't manually tune DVB-S2 on SkyHD boxes.

 

[psurquhart]

No. You can't manually tune DVB-S2 on SkyHD boxes.

Ok thanks - is their any news if these extra channels will be available to us Sky customers and more specifically when ? Apologies if you have covered this in the other threads.

 

[Dave_]

BBC Three HD is officially supposed to launch 10th Dec, the rest 'early 2014'

Though as they are all now testing, I suspect they'll all launch around the same time, and if we are too see the rest launch early/before Xmas they'll have to do it soon as Sky implement an 'EPG freeze' for 3 - 4 weeks from mid December

 

[laserman16]

Thanks for all the info daveh75.

All top notch as usual.

:clap:

 

[strapped for cash]

It already is. See my other posts

Right you are. I obviously wasn't looking hard enough.