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Channel 5 HD on Freeview

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:55:50 GMT

Channel 5 HD has been limited to subscription services for a long time, however its finally about to come to the Freeview platform. After getting a license from Ofcom in February, they are now testing on Freeview.

More information :

http://www.a516digital.com/2016/04/channel-5-hd-now-testing-on-freeview.html

So what does everyone think? Good news right?

Are there any other channels thar you would dearly like to see broadcast in HD? I personally would like to see a 4K channel, but sadly this is a long way off - for Freeview anyhow.

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

latexjeans30 — Sun, 01 May 2016 01:15:22 GMT

Brilliant news. Call me a wierdo but I paid a lot of money for me telly so if a channel is Youview, I will watch it on there as opposed to through the Sky Q box. Do people in the know the normal averge time a channel takes to do testing and then to launch?

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

petersincock — Sun, 01 May 2016 08:03:01 GMT

This is good news, Yes CH5 does carry some questionable content, but they also carry plenty of good films. lets hope they carry them with DD 5.1 unlike ITV which is just DD 2.0

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

Anonymous — Sun, 01 May 2016 11:07:20 GMT

Thats a good point. Fingers crossed for DD5.1 - especially for the movies.

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

petersincock — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:02:03 GMT

Looking forward to NCIS In HD 🙂 Gibbs in full HD and DD5.1, scary! Lol

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

Anonymous — Sun, 01 May 2016 18:03:10 GMT

If you have a HUMAX HDR or HD box, you can actually add the channel. See:

https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/channel-5-hd.7107/

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2016 15:57:14 GMT

Apparently launching tomorrow (Wednesday 4th May) on Freeview and Freesat platforms.

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

petersincock — Tue, 03 May 2016 16:22:59 GMT

Excellent news 🙂

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

Jonnie1266 — Wed, 04 May 2016 20:22:57 GMT

Cheers Quinnicus,

Tuned in all of my gizmos today and there it is on 105 Freeview (which can be searched for on Ch 30 manual tuning option - saves ruining your channel order if using the auto tune function).

We lose one then we gain one - BBC3.....Channel 5

It's about time more Freeview channels became HD, what's stopping them ?

Regards

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 20:46:42 GMT

Jonnie1266 wrote:

It's about time more Freeview channels became HD, what's stopping them ?

Bandwidth and cost. Why fit 5-8 HD channels per multiplex (mux) when you can have 15-20 SD channels per mux. Set to get worse soon when some of the precious bandwidth is 'given' to mobile operators and the closing of some muxes that were temporary. But then we shall be moving to DSO2 where instead compression will be moved to mpeg-4 on all muxes instead of just HD ones. Thats how i understand it anyway

Remove the stupid shopping and soft-porn channels I say!

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

Jonnie1266 — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:01:10 GMT

I agree.

I figured the bandwidth issue but for the life of me there are 999 Freeview channels available, is this not enough to get more than a dozen HD channels ? Adult channels, shopping channels, too many +1 channels, internet channels, pay per view channels and if thats not enough rubbish they continually re-order the 'normal' viewing channels for what reason ?

I should post this on the 'Whinge thread'

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:22:38 GMT

Hahahaha Now that is funny

Your turning into me - i love a good whinge!

Seriously though, when it was announced at the last major channel shuffle that shopping channels would not get there own category and remain as general, i lost faith in a proper organised epg. Must rely on yourself to do so.

Re: Channel 5 HD on Freeview

petersincock — Tue, 10 May 2016 08:01:16 GMT

Shame it looks as though only DD 2.0 on CH5 HD on Freeview. On CH5 HD on sky it broadcasts Dolby D EX 5.1 which is something, hopwfully they will broadcast 5.1 on freeview soon.