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ITV HD via the red button has now become a full time channel named ITV1 HD on channel 119. This channel is a simulcast of ITV1 standard-definition with all programmes either upscalled, or in native HD. For this reason, sadly we cannot continue to update the ITV HD schedule, but you will be able to access the same data through your Freesat TV Guide; all HD programmes should be highlighted as such when you press the information button.
Please note that Scotland, Northern Ireland and Channel Islands can not receive ITV1 HD on channel 119 because the regional broadcaster have decided not to take up ITV’s HD offering; therefore if you wish to receive on channel 119, you’ll need to enter an English/Welsh postcode or continue to use the red button from ITV London on channel 977 (whilst it remains).
ITV HD and BBC HD programme guide
August 31st, 2008 at 7:54 am
September 4th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Why dont ITV get their stuff together and just have a page on their vast site to promote and give the progs on ITV or is that to much like common sense, sadly one of the rarest world commodities lol
Dave KQuote
September 5th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
September 5th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
looking forward to it……………..although don’t fancy seeing those creepy crawlies in it again…………..do you remember???
PedroQuote
September 5th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
talking about king kong there
PedroQuote
September 8th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Just noticed on the ITV website TV guide that the Liverpool CL game on Tuesday 16th against Marseille will be in HD at 19.45
eklektofonicQuote
September 8th, 2008 at 10:46 am
It’s being played in France in “Haute Definition” so should be Marseille vs. Liverpool strictly speaking. Liverpool is currently the most HD Premier League club on Freesat!
eklektofonicQuote
September 8th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Heres another two programmes to add to the ITV HD tv schedule:
Lost in Austen – Wednesday 10th Sept @9pm
Part two – Wednesday 17th Sept @9pm } info from http://www.freesat.co.uk
Hard Target – Monday 15th Sept @10.35PM } info from ITV tv guide
Tony – Rep of IrelandQuote
September 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Tony – Thank you for the update, we can find information on Hard Target, but no confirmation of HD on Lost In Austen. We need evidence of this prior to adding, just incase. Do you have the link available to the specific page?
adminQuote
September 9th, 2008 at 9:46 am
It’s advertised for this month on the Freesat home page!
Johhny S.Quote
September 9th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Hi, I am new to this site. Being a 67 year old who is not up to speed with high tech stuff I wonder if you could help.
I wish to buy a new TV to replace my existing CRT. I am looking at 32” or 37” and will ultimately wish to view HD through either Freeview or Freesat.
I am aware that HD will be broadcast at either 720p or 1080i. I do not wish to view HD DVD or play games such as PS3, hence I do not see any source I would use at 1080p.
At first, I was going to buy an HD Ready TV that could receive display 720p or 1080i. However, I note that there is now a new standard for TVs i.e. Full HD 1020p. My question is will I obtain a better picture when viewing a broadcast of 720p or 1080i if I bought a Full HD 1080p television?
Cheers
Stan
StanQuote
September 9th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Hi Stan, the majority of new televisions are equipt with 1080p capability now anyway, so providing its HD Ready, you can’t really go wrong. 1080p will take years to come to satellite, nothing is produced in that format here, 1080i maximum. The difference is minimal too, but as it’s now a standard, it’s worth having for the future.
If you’re looking for a good 37″, I can personally and highly recommend the Panasonic version, its incredibly and doubt you’ll find anyone disagreeing. It’s also won absolutely tons of awards. The cheapest place to buy (after researching just days ago for a friend) is Laskys. Follow the link below:
http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/link.php?product=laskyspanasonic42
…and search for product TH-37PX80B. Don’t forget to use discount code ‘PANA20′ for a further £20 off.
adminQuote
September 9th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Thanks for the info it is very helpful
StanQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 7:20 am
September 10th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Thanks once again, Admin, for your reply. I have now decided to buy a 32″ television of which the majority are 720p/1020i. The few that are 1020p are more expensive. Your advice would be appreciated.
Cheers
Stan
stanQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Stan – If you are considering 32in then your really looking at buying a LCD rather than Plasma, but of course 1080p is less likely to be available. Again, from Panasonic, the counterpart to the one mentioned earlier is the TX-32LXD80. Also available cheapest from Laskys with the further £20 discount ’20PANA’.
adminQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 11:41 am
1. The only real data source for 1080p is BlueRay discs or your PS3 machine if you have one – we will be waiting a very long time to see broadcast 1080p! You would also want a very big screen to notice the difference between 1080i and 1080p
2. Admin: How about keeping a log of the number of HD Hours per week/month per channel so we can track whether the service is improving or not? (And whether its new programming or repeats)
BobQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Admin
Thanks for the info
Just looked at latest issue of Radio Times and on Wednesday 17th September 2008 Lost in Austen – 21:00 is not listed as HD
Cheers
Stan
stanQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I sent an email to STV and they confirmed that they don’t provide the ITV HD service ar the moment, but are working to resolve this as soon as possible. Are there any other ITV regions that don’t support the HD Service ?
StephenQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
The Children on ITV hd:
Monday 15th September at 9:00pm
JonathanQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Jonathan – Thank you, was wondering why it had not been added.
All – Make sure everyone knows about this schedule, the more readers, the more participants to ensure we have the most conclusive list, as up to date as possible.
adminQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Lost in Austen is not in HD (wed 21:00) on my Humax, no red button service!!!!
SteveBQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
SteveB – That will be Freesat’s fault then:
(just one thing, presumably you are not using a Scottish or Irish region of ITV are you?)
adminQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Im not getting red button for Lost in Austen on my bush HD box
DeanQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
The Radio Times is usually very good about putting a little line of text at the bottom of the listing saying “Simulcast in HD, for Freesat viewers only, via the red button” for the relevant programmes on ITV1.
As Stan said they haven’t put that for Lost in Austen on the 17th, nor did they for the listing for tonight’s episode or for the first episode which aired on the 3rd.
AndrewMQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
AndrewM – Trouble is that the Radio Times also misses a few too, as they’ve done recently, so we’ll add them if we see sufficient proof from a number of source and people. We were recommended to add Lost in Austen, and as Freesat’s own site displays it as being in HD, we expected it to be! Who can you trust these days eh?
adminQuote
September 10th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Removed Lost in Austen now, no point including if it’s not in HD
List doesn’t look so grand anymore haha
adminQuote
September 11th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
You’re certainly right that the Radio Times isn’t infallible; I just noticed that Amazon with Bruce Parry, the first episode of which is showing on BBC2 on Monday, is not marked as being simulcast on BBC HD even though it will be
AndrewMQuote
September 11th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Hi
Does anyone know when we are likely to see a significant increase in HDTV programmes via Freesat?
Stan
StanQuote
September 12th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
ITV CONFIRMED LOST IN AUSTEN ONLY IN SD
SteveBQuote
September 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
The Guru is on ITV HD next Saturday night 10.15 – then contuined after the news. Agatha Christie’s Poirot is on Sunday night at 9.00 – 11.00. Both are on the ITV guide list as been shown in HD!
Tony – Rep of IrelandQuote
September 13th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Thanks Tony, added.
adminQuote
September 14th, 2008 at 9:10 am
This might be of interest to someone out there.I noticed last night that I didn’t get the RED button promp whilst Shakespeare in Love was on.A thought crossed my mind, so I went into the menu setup of my foxsat box and changed the settings from ‘non-freesat’ to freesat and exited back to ITV1 and got the red prompt.I prefer non-freesat because i can jiggle the channel order better and download everything that is up on the satellite rather than the 123 channels downloaded by ‘Freesat’, not sure why RED button only works in FREESAT mode, can anyone resolve, Thanks, Bob
Bob LuetchfordQuote
September 14th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
What a great site this is! I got my arial and Humax only 3 days ago and was bowled over by BBC HD offerings but didn’t know how to find ITV HD. Thanks to you I now do.
I have to say that this HD business from ITV in particular,seems a bit half hearted. What the heck is the problem?
I’m the same age as Stan and doubtless he’ll remember, as I do, the interminable wait for- (a) stereo radio in the late ’50s, (b) colour tv in the ’60s, (c) stereo tv in the ’70s, (d) satellite tv in the ’80s as well as manyother broadcasting enhancements that were all introduced – usually at the speed of suet passing through a flour sifter!
Invariably France (France already!) Germany the U.S. etc. left us well behind in every catagory. Can’t our otherwise vastly superior tv services show everyone else the way; just this once.
David OxberryQuote
September 14th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
David, I think the UK has by far the most HD channels in Europe – unfortunately most of them are subscription. But 3 out of 4 of our national broadcasters have at least a part time HD service which is still leading the field I think…
MorfstaQuote
September 14th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Did anyone else find it somewhat amateurish of ITV HD to just provide a fixed screen saying “ITV HD Programming is not available” or words to that effect during the break between the 2 parts of Shakespeare in Love, when ITV SD was showing the news? I guess transmitting the news wasn’t an option because of regional variations. On a similar subject, some commercials on ITV HD seem to be from companies in the Midlands or Northern England. Is there a bias here?
DerekQuote
September 15th, 2008 at 12:27 am
… some commercials on ITV HD seem to be from companies in the Midlands or Northern England. Is there a bias here?
I live on the west coast of Wales and receive ads telling me I can get a free DVD in The Scottish Mail on Sunday and ads for a sofa company that I have never heard of.
GarrifQuote
September 15th, 2008 at 8:32 am
When are ITV going to get their finger out and transmit with a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack ? As far as I know they haven’t done so yet… Last night Tess of the D’Ubervilles on BBC HD was a delight in 5.1, at one stage I found myself swatting away the bees from the rear channels…
eklektofonicQuote
September 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I have recently connected to Freesat through my humax foxsat HD box. Can anyone please give me a full list of Channel numbers that i should be receiving on my TV? Seeing the prevoius comments about the ITV HD programmes I would have thought that they would done it like the BBC and have a seperate channel for the HD programmes!!
Steve MarriottQuote
September 15th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Steve – Full list of channels at http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.php/freesat-channels.
adminQuote
September 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Haven’t seen anyone mention LUXE.tv HD. It’s on FTA(free to Air).Has beautiful HD shots, no films or soaps.On the humax it can b accessed by changing from FREESAT- in menu options- to NON-Freesat and download fta channels-300+.Channel 4+1 is also unscrambled on fta.
Bob LuetchfordQuote
September 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Many thanks admin for the full list of channels.
Steve MarriottQuote
September 15th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
To Admin – after comparing the list of channels with my TV I have noticed that I have not got any of the Radio Channels (700 to 786). Can you or anybody else help me get them please?
Steve MarriottQuote
September 15th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
@ Steve Marriott – There is currently not enough bandwidth for ITV HD so it is only available via 103 by pressing the Red Button when an HD broadcast is indicated by the on-screen prompt. Radio is displayed by pressing the tv/Radio button on the top of your remote.
GarrifQuote
September 15th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Many thanks Garrif for your input.
Steve MarriottQuote
September 18th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
So just to confirm Garrif, there isn’t a separate ITV HD Channel on Humax? You have to access it via pressing red when on 103?
Because I was flicking through the channels today and I wasn’t able to find ITV HD because there was no channel unlike its BBC HD counterpart.
Cheers.
JamesQuote
September 18th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
anyone any idea of what hd channels are likely to be around on freesat in 2009?
brianQuote
September 19th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
BBC HD and ITV HD
wowzorsQuote
September 21st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Anyone seen any further programmes on ITV HD? We are struggling to find any of it’s looking like a very poor showing for the next week…unless you like Poirot of course!
adminQuote
September 21st, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I can’t see anything else on itvhd in the radio times
DanielQuote
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:38 am
Uefa Champions League LiveITV 1
Tuesday 30th September on ITV 1 from 7:30pm to 10:00pm and in HD
marcQuote
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Good shout out, thanks Marc.
adminQuote
September 26th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
does anyone know any news about itv or bbc having the f1 in hd.i know bbc have the rights for it next year.
danQuote
September 28th, 2008 at 10:01 am
A recent purchase of a Humax free sat system,i find the sd quality poor to view .
If i use my pana DVD to upscale the free view to 1080i,the quality is nearly as good as BBCHD free sat.
I think the freeview quality in LCD sets hase been kept back,for what reason ?
Market Forces ?
John DoddQuote
September 28th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Seems absolutely nothing else on ITV HD for atleast 10 days I’m afriad (other than those listed already!), despite having a couple of blockbuster films on next weekend. Shame
adminQuote
September 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
This is crazy, no programmes on ITV HD are scheduled. Know of any, please let us know by adding a comment?
adminQuote
October 1st, 2008 at 7:16 am
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is on ITV1 on Saturday around 7pm. Anyone know if there will be a HD feed ?
Dan KQuote
October 1st, 2008 at 3:42 pm
harry potter sunday not hd
gordon baconQuote
October 1st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Wired October 13th and the next Engkand home game October 11th are on ITV HD.
WayneQuote
October 1st, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Wayne – thanks for the information, we’ve added but forgive us, we’ve placed as unconfirmed until we can check with our official sources. Sure you are right though
adminQuote
October 1st, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Wired in HD confirmed by ITV here http://www.itv.com/hd/
WayneQuote
October 1st, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Thanks Wayne, taken “unconfirmed” off Wired.
adminQuote
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
It seems to me that ITV are missing out on a lot of watched advertising by having little or no programmes on in HD.
As there are at the moment virtually no HD recorders, HD viewers will have to watch the programmes live and hence the adverts rather than recording and skipping through them.
WillieQuote
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
The Humax HD PVR launches at the end of the month.
The next England game on ITV HD is confirmed by Freesat here http://freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=Home .
WayneQuote
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Thanks Wayne.
The Humax PVR is out next month, where have you heard otherwise?
adminQuote
October 4th, 2008 at 12:25 am
On this site @ the What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision Show from the 31/10/08.
WayneQuote
October 4th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Ah ok, yes, we reported about that, but it is just a launch date, i.e. showing off a final product. The availability will be from mid-November.
adminQuote
October 4th, 2008 at 11:17 am
oh i just love itvs site “movies are often shown in HD – find out what’s coming up” so you click on the link and see about 6 movies that are coming to itv but sod all is mentioned about the hd, their whole site is a nightmare
AlQuote
October 5th, 2008 at 3:11 am
Anyone know exactly when Five and Ch4 HD will be on freesat ?
DaveQuote
October 5th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Re question from Dave. I believe C5 and Channel 4 HD is early next year. The problem is with ITV HD is that programmes like Pioret are absolutely pants picture quality even in HD, does anyone know the reason for this and does anyone know when they will be broadcasting in Dolby Digital like BBC HD?
PhilQuote
October 5th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Dave – C5 is within the next month or so, C4 HD is an unknown!
adminQuote
October 5th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Thanks for info both…though I view / record ITV HD / 4HD with my Vantage 8000S
DaveQuote
October 6th, 2008 at 10:39 am
why do c4hd have no sub titles
gordon baconQuote
October 10th, 2008 at 8:37 am
i notice that stevie b on 10/9/08 has commented on the fact that Lost in Austen itvhd was not available in hd to him and you commented that there may be a regional reason for this .can you confirm that itv(n. Ireland) does not receive hd or have i picked this up wrong
Stuarty LQuote
October 10th, 2008 at 8:48 am
ITV HD isn’t available on the NI or Scottish regional ITV channel, you will need to change your postcode to a English postcode to then get the red button option when a HD programme is available.
adminQuote
October 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
just flicked onto wired and no red button / HD choice, (nottingham, central region)
AlQuote
October 13th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Just been watching Wired in HD then it suddenly messed up. It seems ‘out of sync’ because the adverts were coming on at funny times, not usual at all.
Then all of a sudden a message popped up saying ‘your HD programme has finished’ and it reverted back to SD a few minutes further in to the programme (I presume)…very disappointing!!!
Anyone else had any problems with it?
SteveQuote
October 13th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
*seemed ‘out of sync…
SteveQuote
October 13th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Had to switch back to SD whilst watching Wired in HD, as after the first ad break, the programme started from the beginning again!!
DerekQuote
October 14th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Same problem with “Wired”, lost HD after the first ad break, then it seemed to start from the beginning again, then back to SD. Still quite a good show though, but not impressed with ITV HD at all.
Roger DawsonQuote
October 14th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I also lost the HD version of ‘Wired’ after the first ad break, I agree with everyone that ITV HD is currently a ‘shambles’. They need to get their act together, it can’t be that difficult……can it?
RoddersQuote
October 14th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Help needed to tune my Bush HD STB to receive non Freesat channels. Tried the manual tune option, input new freqency etc but a scan never fnds any new channels. What am I doing wrong?
RoddersQuote
October 14th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I too had the same problem with Wired on ITV HD. It seems to me as though they don’t even take the “channel” seriously. I’d have at least expected that they could have brought HD back after the second break, but no such luck… It’s no wonder the ITV HD isn’t available on Sky HD yet, and I don’t think they’d want it after problems like this.
DanielQuote
October 14th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
It is truly a mess. To be honest, I’ve completely given up on ITV. Their programming is dire. It’s a great pity because being one of the first to air HD material would perhaps have won some badly needed viewers back…seemingly they can’t be bothered…
benQuote
October 15th, 2008 at 9:22 am
ITVHD has got England vs Germany and also be showing 8 mile soon
ShirksQuote
October 15th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Shirks.
Have you got a source for the Germany v England game on ITV HD, as this is an away friendly?
WayneQuote
October 15th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
There’s only ever been two decent things on itv hd – King Kong and Shakespeare In Love – both films. Now I remember why I stopped watching ITV (I’m not that interested in football)
DanielQuote
October 16th, 2008 at 10:01 am
I work in the retail industry selling Panasonic equipment. But recent freesat presentation pointed it out. There are other things that is common knowledge like champ league.
But bar me getting bored with the presentation I only remembered those 2 bits and a harry potter film but I think they have shown it already.
ShirksQuote
October 16th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I wonder if anyone can advise me. I want to but a panasonic TH-PZ81 with built in freesat. SHould I go for the 42,46 or 50 inch version. I will be mainly using it to watch broadcast programmes in standard format or HD and the ocassional blu ray film nothing else. Our viewing distance is about 18 feet so I want to be sure I buy the right size without compromising the picture quality. Also does anyone think these offers that include free 5-year warranty any good? I;m not sure is it;s worth paying the extra for this peace of mind? Any advice appreciated. Antonio
antonioQuote
October 16th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
antonio – for that kind of distance, go for the 50in, you won’t compromise quality, not a panasonic plasma. Don’t forget our price comparisons, up to date, offering the best around at the moment. Is the 5 year warranty worth it? Probably not, they are very reliable units. If you do want the 5 year though, go for the slightly smaller size and get one from John Lewis online, which includes this. Again, see our comparisons on the right.
adminQuote
October 18th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Pathetic lineup
TiMQuote
October 18th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Only King Kong and England Kazachstan were interesting Shakespeare is definetly not Why X-factor on ITV HD ????
Anne MartensQuote
October 19th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
October 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
The Daily Mail Saturday
TV Section big paper for the week
has HD on every HD broadcast.
So It has wired ITV1 HD
And this week the HD worked great on Freesat.
I hope more Magazines show the HD symbol
well done to the Saturday Daily Mail.
ColinQuote
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:46 am
Even the tv guide from the Sun lists them.
WayneQuote
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I can confirm Red Dragon in HD it is marked as so in the radio times
DanielQuote
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:29 pm
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Is it really 100% true that The Bill will be broadcast on ITV HD EVERY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY from now on? This will be a great move from ITV if this is true info.
Pranny GQuote
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
No, it’s a couple of special edition episodes in HD. ITV have confirmed no intention to broadcast The Bill in HD from now on!
adminQuote
October 24th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Great! I got to see Atletico de Madrid in HD for free!! VAMOS KUN! y Simao, Forlan,..
AUPA ATLETI!
Too bad I would have to get Sky sometime in the future for Spanish Liga games..
Juan PabloQuote
October 26th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Admin
Sharpe with Sean Beane sun Nov 2nd
advertised as HD last nite on ITV.
sideshowbobQuote
October 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
now id just like to see Sony’s HD Bond advert on itv, fingers crossed for a slot during Hannibal
AlQuote
October 27th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Dear All,
Purely my opinion but for all the moans about ITV HD, especially their lack of scheduling information and availability in Scotland (unless you use an English post code), their picture quality is amazing!
The HD coverage of England’s game vs Kazakhstan looked superb and was a terrific advert for the upgrade HD offers over SD. Even the untrained eye of my wife spotted the difference!
Nick ClarkQuote
October 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I tried the ITV HD redbutton service on Saturday for the first time during the movie “Red Dragon”. I was dissapointed to find it was unwatchable – blocky and breaking up pictures – I had to revert to SD. I would be pleased to hear from anyone as to why I am having this problem when all my SD channels and BBC HD are perfect. I have a Panasonic HDTV with built in Freesat etc.
ian LuxtonQuote
October 27th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Ian – Hmmm, there was no issue with Red Dragon as far as I’m aware, see pictures taken by Snoods, http://www.flickr.com/photos/freesathd/
adminQuote
October 27th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Ian, I too have a Panasonic Freesat TV, and had no problems with Red Dragon or any other ITV HD programmes. I do,however, have an issue with the Freesat “Red Button” on BBC in that I cannot get the Sports Multipage 3001. Do you have the same problem?
Roger DawsonQuote
October 27th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Hi Roger
Just tried 3001 and it seems to work, albeit with slightly distorted sound. I’ll try ITV Red Button again and see if Saturday’s problem was isolated.
Ian
ian LuxtonQuote
October 30th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I am getting a Freesat PVR when released for sale. I understand that the HD service was not available in my area (STV) is that still the case? I heard mention that it might be soon? During setup I understand that I need to input a different region postcode? Is this correct? THANKS for any info.
EDDie HeronQuote
October 31st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Yes Eddie, STV (and UTV in the Six Counties across the water) are in dispute with ITV over “brand identity” issues.
ITV want to broadcast across the whole of the UK with their logo shown – STV and UTV (not part of ITV) want theirs shown in Scotland/Ulster. The fact that STV contributes zero (as far as I can see) to the HD programmes on offer seems to be irrelevant up here.
Pump in an English postcode – I now “live” in Kent despite residing well north of Hadrian’s Wall !!!
You can re-tune once the dispute is resolved.
MACQuote
November 1st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Ok! Thanks for that MAC just the clarification I needed. I guess I will have to reside in Whitehall
EDDie HeronQuote
November 5th, 2008 at 10:27 am
According to the RadioTimes “The Bill” will be in HD on Thu. 6th Nov. 8->9pm
steveQuote
November 5th, 2008 at 10:42 am
November 5th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
November 6th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
No HD on “The Bill” on ITV (from time to time) HD tonight Steve . . . . Well certainly not here.. The ‘Red Button’ is worn out . .
StevenQuote
November 9th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
No HD on Havant cup tie – says no signal
DenisQuote
November 9th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I wonder whether an ‘on-air’ explanation as to why no hd signal will be given by Steve Rider or Clive Tyldesley……somehow I don’t think so!
Does anyone have the figures as to how many of us have freesat hd boxes?
JeffQuote
November 9th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Like Denis says “NO SIGNAL FOR HD” When red button is pressed it says “this channel is not available” even though it says it is loading the HD channel.
it does not load!!
COM’ON ITV DO A PROPER JOB OF THIS RED BUTTON HOO-HAA. LAST WEEK I MISSED THE OPENING PART OF THE SHARPE ‘S PERIL TRYING TO LOAD THE HD THROUGH RED BUTTON.
YASARQuote
November 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I have a Fortec Star (Innovation) HD sat box purchased from Maplins in August, and have never seen the red button on ITV HD transmissions (on the occasions when they are supposed to be HD and for example the FA cup special today). I now suspect that the red button HD servce is only available on Freesat and not generic HD sat boxes, especially as the red button is used for audio switching.
Can anyone confirm or offer any comment on this? Together with the lack of full EPG I’m beginning to regret jumping in to HD early and not waiting for a Freeat HD PVR. (The USB port allowing HD recording onto a portable hard disk works wellenough though)
CliveQuote
November 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I am haapy to watch ITV HD without red button and without a freesat receiver
Nanoxx9500 HD you can watch and record and watch it in the best manner
Still enjoying King Kong It’s not often great, what ITV broadcasts but sometimes they do it very well.
Anne MartensQuote
November 12th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Response to Clive’s question. I too have a Fortec Star but there is no red button service. You need to ensure you have the correct channel stored as per co-ordinates easily obtainable off Lingsat. In my experience you just select the channel and if a programme is on it should come on as there is no need to wait for the programme to load. I also believe if you go on Fortec Star there is a new EPG download available although I must admit I haven’t tried it yet. As for the hard drive I am not sure if the quality of the recording on a PVR would be any better that using your hard drive, more convenient perhaps but better quality I doubt it. Also in my opinion having seen both a number of HD freesat boxes and the Fortec Star the picture quality on the later particularly for HD is better as is the sound, so in my opinion you made the right choice.
PhilQuote
November 12th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Why can’t ITV HD provide a full 24h channel rather than an interactive redbutton service with ALL programmes in SD upscaled to HD as regular ITV1 with an eventual progression to HD on ALL programmes studiobased live AND recorded? And it would be nice for Dolby Digital 5.1 surroundsound to be used on ALL programmes too.
AnthonyQuote
November 12th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Don’t think ITV can even afford to buy Christmas cards this year, let alone sustain a full HD channel or service
adminQuote
November 12th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
i have a bush freesat hd connected to my sat dish and have all the chanels except ITVHD is there something i can do i live in the granada area!!!!
kev smithQuote
November 13th, 2008 at 8:03 am
You should get it Kev! you must be trying to get ITVHD when there is no content available-the onscreen flag for ITVHD is only operational and comes up when HD content on ITV1 is broadcast with the familiar onscreen itvhd red button indication on regular SD simulcasts of ITV1 programmes.
AnthonyQuote
November 13th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Thanks i have been making the mistake of watching my TV through my sony TV and only checking my freesat box for HD programmes on the dedicated BBC HD chanel and waiting for a seperate chanel to appear, after posting the request i put the commander on and saw the red button so now im sorted …thanks ive book marked this site so i can find out what is coming on, many thanks
kev smithQuote
November 13th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Love the fact that this info at least exists somewhere
Any chance of getting it as an rss feed? (Or even better in xmltv format) That way people (most importantly me
) could import it into the guide in their Home Theatre PC.
Otherwise it’s the nasty task of screen scraping this page for the relevant data…. not fun!
Thanks
WaseemQuote
November 16th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Dear ITV there are alot of out there with HD tv’s and will never pay SKY their inflated prices so come on ITV were all yours COME ON
LOUGHLINQuote
November 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
stop critiscising Sky, without them we would still be stuck with 5 analogue channels with digital (let alone HD) years away. Sky made the advances in technology while ITV and BBC sat back! Sky are in their rights to charge subscription rates and for £10 a month on the sub rates there are 28 HD channels as opposed to one and a half HD channels on freesat. I know who is getting ripped off and it isnt the Sky subscriber.
gazwlzQuote
November 17th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
It isn’t £10 a month it’s £27 which is a big step up from 0. I love my freesat hd box but wish that they would update the dreary EPG, as it’s grey and depressing in comparison to sky with the calming music and blue background. ITV come at least get all your soaps onto hd by the start of 2009. Heard that they’ve spent half a mill on new camera so we should start to see more home content soon.
TomQuote
November 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I had LIP SYNC PROBLEMS watching Britannia High last night ..
In fact BBC is fine its just ITV , anyone else got same problem ???
my view on $ky : rip off merchants ..
maybe now they will have to start thinking about there prices ..
DeanoQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
gazwlz – I am afraid you are well and truly getting ripped off.
If you are on the basic minimum HD package – then you are paying sky £324 a year to watch utter drivel and repeats !!! ( drivel in HD is no better than drivel in SD )
If you have the full package (sport, movies) – you are paying sky £684 a year.
And for that you get loads of sport (excellent). The latest movies (excellent), but it just isn’t worth £823 (inc licence fee) a year to watch TV, unless you are a couch potato and do nothing else !!
PaulQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Tom, I didnt say Sky HD was £10 a month – I said it was £10 a month for HD on top of the subs, which is still a reasonable price for 28 HD channels!. Sky will most likely drop that charge altogether in the next 12 months anyway. I do have freesat too by the way….just in case there might be just one decent programme from ITV in HD before the end of life as we know it. The rate they are going I doubt it.
gazwlzQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Yes Paul but I can afford it, I pay Sky £57 a month and thats because I can .. Therefore I am not being ripped off. You only get ripped off if it bothers you.
gazwlzQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
If it does bother people then they probably wont be silly enough to get ripped off will they ??
You may be able to afford it and it may not bother you but that doesn’t mean you are not being ripped off.
In fact the best rip offs are the ones where the customer doesn’t realise it !!
I have realised it which is why my next phone call to $ky (as soon as i get my freesat pvr) will be most enjoyable.
PS – can i come round and watch the cricket !!!
PaulQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Freesat PVR? Bit expensive if we are to work on your terms. Thats a heck of a price for one and a half HD channels and loads of shopping channels, are you sure you might not be being ripped off too then? By the way I dont watch any drivel in HD as there is no drivel (like soaps) being made in HD. As for the licence fee I dont have to pay it. At my time of life I find Sky easy to use and it has the best choice, I can afford it and dont feel ripped off so leave me be.
gazwlzQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Cricket .. unfortunately is not in HD at present so I cant even ask you round!
gazwlzQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
£57 a month and the cricket is not even in HD
I only have sky for the sport. Never watch anything else at all on subscription channels, just watch the main FTA channels. Will miss the sport but there’s still quite a bit on FTA and i don’t get time to watch enough sport to justify sky’s crazy fees.
And yes £299 is not cheap, i agree, but i currently pay £37 a month for sky so it will pay for itself in 8 months. Then its £0 a month (forever) .
Oh and soaps…… Yep they are drivel
PaulQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
the cricket – yes I was surprised about that. The England match should be in HD on ITV…hence me having the both. Not enough effort from ITV though.
gazwlzQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Sorry guys but can we keep this page focused on ITV HD and the upcoming programmes. Thank you.
adminQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Sorry admin – wrists slapped !!!
Lets hope ITV increase their HD content over time.
I am sure they will eventually.
PaulQuote
November 18th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
ok admin, what programmes though?! couldnt resist that!
gazwlzQuote
November 19th, 2008 at 12:53 am
So is there anything apart from dumba$$ football ( sorry dudes, I’m not a fan ) and a teen soap on ITV HD…….come ON why did I pay $$$ for high definition low quality content !!!!
chrisQuote
November 19th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Yeah Chris, right on. Not everybody id a football fan, ITV’s so called HD schedule is a big joke.
johnQuote
November 19th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Is anyone else having intermittent sound cutouts on ITV HD during the football this evening or is it just my Foxsat HD playing up?
NickQuote
November 19th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Not just you Nick, plenty are experiencing sound drops too. Well done again ITV…!
adminQuote
November 19th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Hi Admin, do you know if ITV read comments here. First they start HD after a drama has started which is really not on and now sound cutting out during the football. Checked on SD and Freeview and the sound was working fine.
Steve PQuote
November 19th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Steve P – I don’t know, and the reason I don’t know is that ITV choose not to speak to anyone! I’ve tried countless times (as have others!) to speak to no other than their head of communications and not even they reply…what does that say hey!
I intend speaking to Freesat about this, as it’s NOT a good advertisement for Freesat, having a limited hours poor service.
adminQuote
November 19th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
In all seriousness though, yes, they probably read this, as I know BBC read this site daily, checking what’s been put etc.
adminQuote
November 20th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I for one am sooooo happy with all the new HD progs, it is just getting better and better .WELL DONE
LOUGHLINQuote
November 20th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
November 21st, 2008 at 8:59 am
@ steve p, i had no sound issues with the footie in HD….
wow:)Quote
November 21st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
On the ITV site, it states Return of the Jedi will be AD in the programme synopsis. I doubt the other Star Wars movies are going to be shown in HD.
Mr TumbleQuote
November 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
AD=audio description, ( tho correct me if im wrong:))
wow:)Quote
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Ah I see. It’s just odd that they do not have it down as HD in the TV synospis. Then again, I suppose that’s why Join Freesat have this schedule because ITV still have not got their act together with a HD schedule.
Mr TumbleQuote
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:03 am
I can’t see these latest films listed anywhere as HD. Where is this info coming from please?
WayneQuote
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:11 am
Wayne – This information is released to the TV listings / press companies usually a couple of weeks before being aired. It’s usually accurate but ITV have been known to change their minds!!!
adminQuote
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I have just tried watching the Starwars film on ITV in HD, no red button. So questions is, was it broadcast in SD only or is the famous red button not working?
TillQuote
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Next weeks Return of the Jedi is in HD not this weeks episode V.
WayneQuote
November 24th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Duhhh, maybe I should learn to read dates correctly!
Although the Bruce Willis film (Mercury Rising) last night was showing in HD, just a shame I was too damn Kn*****d to stay up and watch it. Roll on my Foxsat HDR arriving soon with luck
TillQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
They should print it in the Tv guide wether a film is in HD or not !! an as for the red button it never works on my tv lol
FrancisQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Tonights Man U footy is now claimed not to be in HD on Digital Spy Forums. We will see.
WayneQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
WELL WAYNE YOU ARE RIGHT MAN U MATCH IS NOT IN HD
YASARQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
doesnt look like there is much hope for the Histon v Leeds match on sunday then! MOT
awesome.wellesQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
WAYNE 100 % correct NO HD for footy !!
It is about time ITV sort this out and GIVE US A PROPER HD TV GUIDE..
Does this mean the rest of the champs league is not in HD ????
DeanoQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Maybe there’s no footy in HD cus they still cant sort out there intermittent sound cutouts, witch i think a majority of us suffered ..
DeanoQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
More likely it’s not being shown in HD as the feed they have is not high definition – in fact it’s 4:3, which they’ve clumsily pan&scanned slightly. The SD quality for this match is easily the worst I’ve seen in years, makes BBC standard definition look like HD by comparison! Appalling.
StefanQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
And what was worse from ITV during the non-HD football they even advertised that you can watch Champions League matches in HD!!!! Poor show ITV
IanQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Wish ITV HD will get it right, no footy has planned-very disappointed. Could be a venture to SKY HD me thinks. At this rate ITV HD will go the way of On-Digital.
PhilQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Phill calm down i wouldn’t turn to the dark side just yet
@ Ian i had turned to BCC HD before that point but that is absolutely outrageous.
ITV SORT IT OUT ITV SORT IT OUT ITV SORT IT OUT ..
DeanoQuote
November 25th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
The feed was from a spanish broadbasting company and spain itself broadcasts a pathetic ammount of hd in comparison to the u.k, much like how sky sports imports spanish footie for the revista de la liga. True, ITV are just buying time until they get enough
a) content
b) consumers using the freesat sevice
Channel 4hd. I want you
TomQuote
November 26th, 2008 at 12:14 am
As I was flicking through I saw 20 seconds of the ITV ‘Footie’ it was laughable…….very poor quality, but, it’s not ITV’s fault the Spanish feed was ca@p……I feel sorry for the fans.
chrisQuote
November 26th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Having just bought a Humax PVR on the basis of HD content from Freesat I have to say I am devastated.
ITV advertising Champions League in HD – then not showing it. Typically British.
I am almost scared for my £300 investment with talk about on digital and turning to the dark side (from where I have just come).
I cant believe that with all the talk of HD about at the moment and SKYs apparent focus on HD content to differentiate their offering that the Beeb and ITV cannot get this sorted. I thought the Beeb was at the forefront of this type of thing.
Looks like I may be looking for a hasty refund on my new box or flogging it to someone on ebay and calling SKY (not yet cancelled) to see what they can come up with on the HD front for me.
Sam PQuote
November 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Was I the only person not to get the red button HD option on last night’s Villareal/Man Utd game?
Bit disappointed to not see the game in HD….
Nick
Nick ClarkQuote
November 26th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Great to see a schedule at last ive found one, ITV could really attract viewers if they displayed an ITV HD schedule….how strange!
I was expecting to see the Villareal/Man Utd game in HD too, didnt get the red button symbol. shame
Was anyone able to view the game in HD lastnight?
James RQuote
November 26th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Because the picture was from the Spanish broadcaster, it was not HD. The ITV supplied segments were HD though. Bit annoying.
J manQuote
November 26th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
So ITV chose to show the game from Spain on ITV1 in SD when they had the opportunity to deliver the Arsenal game in HD, instead showing it on ITV4.
Interesting……a demonstration of comitment to Freesat / HD ?
Sam PQuote
November 26th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
thats it then, I did notice the picture quality of the half time interviews and replays were crystal clear but the game footage was poor….but at least the games were free to air.
James RQuote
November 26th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
@ sam P, i could be interested in your pvr if you want to px against my humax foxsat HD?
and you will still get the fta HD but no pvr.. simple… or have patience cos this is the early times for HD, more to come and itv are far from their full HD providings 
you do have a good investment rly so hold on to it dude 
wow
wow:)Quote
November 26th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Thanks for the various posts confirming that, despite being advertised, the Man Utd/Villareal game was not broadcast on ITV HD.
I thought I was going mad, my Mrs – the Man U fan, not me! – was cursing and swearing at me while I was mesing around trying to get something that wasn’t there!
Cheers All,
S
RosieBs_DadQuote
November 27th, 2008 at 3:57 am
ITV’s own TV Guide is showing that Return of the Jedi and Superhuman will not be shown in HD:
http://www.itv.com/TVGuide/default.html?tvgBegin=85
http://www.itv.com/TVGuide/default.html?tvgBegin=92
It is showing HD for the FA Cup special and Britannia High, though.
AndrewMQuote
November 30th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Admin.
Is Return of the Jedi confirmed as being in HD?
WayneQuote
November 30th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Wayne, no, we have no confirmation since they released the information some 2 weeks ago, it’s likely they won’t be in HD.
adminQuote
November 30th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Just switched on for Leeds v Histon in the FA Cup. Advertised as HD, but not only is it not HD, but the quality of the picture being shown is awful. ITV get it wrong…..again!
Roger DawsonQuote
November 30th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
try again roger…. lol
it is HD but the quality is poor compared to the sport clips ive seen on bbc HD preview. possibly this is due to coping with poor weather or lack of post processing. they could certainly do with a squeegee for the cameras!
awesome.wellesQuote
November 30th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Thanks awesome, got it on HD now. Pretty good picture, except for the lack of wipers on the various cameras
Roger DawsonQuote
November 30th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
return of the jedi is showing in HD
wow:)Quote
November 30th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Wow Star Wars in HD woo hoo
SlipkidQuote
November 30th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
And suddenly ITV HD in the middle of Starwars Return of the Jedi It stopped broadcasting what an amateristic channel….
Anne MartensQuote
November 30th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
The news is on half way through – which is NOT in HD…..just wait 15 mins
chrisQuote
November 30th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
oh my god 4 hd programs in one day, Well done ITV, the star wars transmission cancelled for me too but after changing channel and pressing red again worked perfect. Seems watching Leeds losing again in HD doesn’t make the viewing quality any better
TomQuote
December 1st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Yes, very well done ITV
Keep it up.
LengFreesatQuote
December 1st, 2008 at 7:23 pm
The Phantom Menace is listed as being in HD on the ITV Guide
DavidQuote
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Wonder what delights are on offer over the festive season in HD any news
LOUGHLINQuote
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Some Chrismas HD added! Jessica Alba in HD, what more does any bloke need?
adminQuote
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Love my humax freesat receiver – have to admit great hd picture – probably better than through my Sky receiver, however it has to be said that with just BBC HD and only a very occassional HD service from ITV – freesat is not really a good option if you want to get the best from an HD telly. Now with Disney added Mon 1st Dec and MTVHD, NickelodeonHD and Sci Fi HD about to launch on Sky before Christmas what do you do? One and a half channels on freesat free after forking out 120 to 300 quid depending on pvr or Sky+ with its soon to be 32 HD channels with an HD sub? Ive got both but what do you think is value for money here? ITV you better get your act together and launch a full channel rather than the daft red button service and also seek a way of getting some other HD channels onto the freesat service soon.
gazwlzQuote
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Ch4 HD will ‘make it’ on to freesat I guess in a few months. We are so badly behind the US and Australia it’s a bit of a joke really. Why can’t ITV simply simulcast their less than part time ITVHD ‘channel’ as Ch4 do ?!
DaveQuote
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
The Phantom Menace is confirmed as being on ITVHD in the Radio Times.
DanielQuote
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Are we ever going to get another HD channel in 2009 on freesat ?
I really can’t see it happening in this country for at least 10 YEARS,anyone got any real information on this ?
john DQuote
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I think Channel 4 HD might get onto freesat next year and ITVHD onto Sky and probably a fiveHD on both but I guess there are horns locked somewhere stopping the progress of free HD any further – for a while – thats a shame cos even though I ‘bat’ for SkyHD. I have the freesat Humax receiver and the quality is better than that of the Thomson sky receiver. I watch BBC HD on that rather than my Sky receiver. As I said before 32 HD channels by Christmas is a better proposition at the moment than one and a half on freesat. Why have an HD telly otherwise? Something needs to be done, ITV and the BBC pull your fingers out.
gazwlzQuote
December 4th, 2008 at 10:53 am
I am a Freesat STB owner and like many others, I am very dissapointed at the lack of-ITV HD content, especially as I have followed the News about ‘Freesat’ for some near 2 years now, and they said then in there first Reports, we hope to launch with 6/8 HD channels, but really have only started half heartedly, because I know myself that I have been able to Receive BBC HD since-2006 when I was able to pickup the 2006 World Cup, on my-Humax HDCI 2000 STB.I only purchased the-Foxsat HD STB in order to receive ITV HD, and a proposed few others at Launch, so I as others with ‘Freesat’, am still waiting, and Just for the Record my-Humax HDCI 2000 has a much superior quality HD picture than the-Humax Foxsat HD receiver, so ‘Freesat’ have to get there finger out, so come on Guy’s.!!!…
Peter MossmanQuote
December 4th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Just got my HDR from Comet today (ordered before their weird price hike).
Two questions:
(a) What disk format does the external HDD need? There seems to be no utility for formatting the external device (though I can see it – and it’s Volume Name in File Explorer)
(b) I would like loop-through into my Panny FreeSat plasma. If I physically turn off the power of the HDR then the loopthrough works just fine. If the HDR is powered in any way (non-power saving standby even), the loopthrough is disabled.
The manual states that loop-through is not available in Power Saving standby – fair do’s – so when I switched off that option I expected the loop-through to be active. Nope.
Can you please help with either of these points?
ABC
aybeeseaQuote
December 4th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
December 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
For anyone else wondering, Phantom Menace IS also in HD this weekend, or rather it asked if I wanted to record the SD or HD version when I added it to my recording queue.
Living proof we will watch anything, no matter how terrible it is, in HD!
Pete CullenQuote
December 5th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Oh come on guys all the stuff you mention as being part of a freesat Christmas on ITV HD are on in the run up to Christmas. Whats on in ITVHD at Christmas itself though? a film a day perhaps?. I bet its the same situation this time next year on freesat, come on freesat get some HD channels on there pronto.
gazwlzQuote
December 5th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
@gazwlz
look at the top of this page, thats where you find out whats is on…. and hey, they have the listings of what programmes will be showing in HD over xmas………………
wow:)Quote
December 5th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
where wow:) ? there is Ali G indahouse on the 23rd then possibly something Boxing night, am i missing something?
I suppose we have to assume the Harry Potter film at 3.10 may be in HD on ITVHD Christmas afternoon but I bet they’ve made little effort otherwise.
gazwlzQuote
December 6th, 2008 at 8:40 am
the listings of what is on are at the top of this post, and they are usually spot-on, the beeb had to apply for extended viewing hours so they can have more on their HD channel, and maybe ITV were not so lucky, but there are still 19 days to xmas and you never know, there might be a few more proggys/films to be confirmed as HD over the festive period.
wow:)Quote
December 6th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Saturday 20th December 2008
Honey (film) – 2.40pm
Synopsis to follow…
Saturday 20th December 2008
Britannia High Finale (drama) – 5.30pm
Synopsis to follow…
Tuesday 23rd December 2008
Ali G Indahouse (film) – 10.40pm
Synopsis to follow…
Friday 26th December 2008
Caught in a Trap (tbc) – 9.00pm
Synopsis to follow…
Saturday 27th December 2008
Bird on a Wire (film) – 11.05pm
Synopsis to follow…
just incase you couldnt find them gaz
wow:)Quote
December 6th, 2008 at 10:57 am
so nothing from ITV HD at Christmas then as you point out above.
You would have thought ‘Dancing on ice’ Christmas day would have been filmed in HD – ITV cant be bothered – ‘Strictly of course is in HD on BBCHD, … look at the difference…. Brucie in HD, Schofield (z list) in SD – says it all really.
gazwlzQuote
December 6th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Was watching comedy awards and the big fight live afterwards gave me the option for hd. Funny how they pay all this money for hd cameras but fail to advertise, it’s like setting a mousetrap, that mouse aint gonna come if there ain’t no cheese. dedicated listings please ITV.
TomQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Hi All,
I’ve just purchased The New Panasonic 42inch freesat tv i’m having a sky hd box installed in jan, all though i love the telly can’t thought it freesat is crisp & sharp, but I feel a little cheated as I was under the impression that there was a few hd channels whereas I can only find BBC Hd, and reading all the comments ITV don’t list their hd channel I’m confused over the red button thing I can only guess that what is meant is in ITV freesat there is a red button you push for hd correct me if wrong, I was going for the new Sony Bravia still can change my mind as it seems pointless having this tv in regards to the lack of hd channels.
Thanks in advanced & a Merry Christmas
AlanQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Surely we watch for content and HD is icing on the cake. Just because something is jumping through the “HD hoop” doesn’t make it “better”.
Maybe we are 1960s fanboys of the BBC2 “Colour Trade Test Film” or even worse (and earlier) …. the “Potter’s Wheel”…
ABC
aybeeseaQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Didn’t see it advertised anywhere but the boxing in HD last night was amazing… (Although the picture did break up a few times)
PeteQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
ITV really need to get this thing sorted.
Let’s have a proper channel like BBC. The listings could then appear on the EPG and we could see what was available and could have the ability to select our choice, instead of fumbling around with a red button which doesn’t work until they chose to activate it.
The present system is CRAP and all because they want to protect regional advertising.
It doesn’t help Freesat either with their present advertising emphasising HD availability. New customers will be disappointed to find only BBC and ITV if and when they chose to tell you about it and allow you to see it.
peterhbQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Star Wars on HD ? – my HD screen is just a black screen ?
This happened towards the end of last weeks episode also !
COME ON ITV – this is fale advertising…..blah blah blah ITV in HD – NO IT ISNT! It must b worth the £30k for a freesat channel listing ?
Anyone else having trouble with it on the PVR or any other HD box ?
Sammy PQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Well, unlike Sammy P, the HD for Episode 1 is working for me … but is it just me or is the HD quality TERRIBLE?! I mean, I know this movie was shot on film and not digitally like the other 2 Star Wars prequels, but come on, this looks far worse than Return of the Jedi did in HD, and that was made 17 years before this, for Christ’s sake!
In fact, I see not much discernible differnece between the HD and SD versions of this. Anyone agree?
StefanQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
im watching phantom menace now and is it me or is the dolby not working i have it via optical cable from my darkbox hd picture is great but sound is only using the front two channels any body else comment?
rickstercavmanQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
didnt catch the other two episodes but looks fine on my sony via darkbox hd
rickstercavmanQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
stefan, what box do you have ? i cant get anything even after a reset.
Sammy PQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
and where are you. is this an itv regions issue ? anybody ?
Sammy PQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I have the Humax freesat HD box.
Working great with HD
The ITV stars wars today is great in 1080i HD
the second star wars movie in Hi Def.
Like last week
it stays in HD
for the next Britannia High episode in HD.
well done ITV.
When is the bloated BBC going to show
a Full movie in HD?
ColinQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Had to do a factory reset and it started working.
Seems to be a HUMAX glitch. Any chance of a software fix ?
Sammy PQuote
December 7th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
STAR WARS PQ was up and down one minute it was quite good HD quality then it looked the same as SD ..
I had slight problem when the break for the split in the film came for the news ,” got stuck on blank ITV HD screen saver ” just had to push blue to go back to SD service.
DeanoQuote
December 8th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Colin.
BBC HD showed The Merchant Of Venice full film @ 11.20PM Saturday night in 2.35:1, with the stupid HD logo standing out like a sore thumb in the top left hand corner, as it was white on the black letterbox background, arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
WayneQuote
December 8th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Phantom Menace showed up the background special effects as grainy and as mentioned above no 5.1 sound (via HDMI in my case from my Humax box via my Denon AV amp).
Additionally the event didn’t record to my HDD.
I still haven’t managed a timed ITV HD recording. Early days.
ABC
aybeeseaQuote
December 8th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
basically ITVs HD service is awful. ITV has never had much respect for its viewers. – Unless the viewers are spending cash on cash grabbing phone lines. I can remember the colour strikes in the early 1970s when everyone got a colour telly only to find ITV in black and white for months on end, and we all know about the ITV Digital fiasco. Truth is they sit back let all other broadcasters like Sky do the research and development then jump on board but miss the boat altogether. Ok people can argue about paying subs to Sky but if it wasnt for them we would still be left with 4 channels let alone 5, digital, satellite or even HD. Fact is ITV has always and will always lack any regard for the viewer, thats why the film yesterday was of poor quality and only accessible via a red button. HD means halfheartedly delivered as far as they are concerned.
gazwlzQuote
December 8th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
December 8th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Tried watching the starwars film on sunday in HD on ITV and I gave up, the picture kept breaking up and it was only in dolby digital. Not 5.1! Its was not my Humax box playing up, because i have a paansonic freesat plasma screen and it was just the same on that! BBC HD was working fine during all of this.Oh and I am in teh london area, so it was nothing to do with postcodees!
TillQuote
December 9th, 2008 at 8:26 am
till, i had no issues with break up, you could find that your dish might be slightly out of alignment, only slightly tho… worth a try if you get this often..
wow:)Quote
December 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Why does my Foxsat HDR say ERROR E-OS when trying to download the new software???
MattQuote
December 9th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Matt 230 its because you only have one Cable from your LNB pluged in . I have Two cables but no HDR its coming tomorrow , at last………
MattQuote
December 9th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
can anyone confirm that the chelsea game was broadcast in hd tonight? i didn’t get the red button option at all, even though the epg stated it was an hd option..
jon coleQuote
December 10th, 2008 at 12:13 am
wasn’t in hd as far as I know Jon, I certainly didn’t get it in hd – typical ITV.
gazwlzQuote
December 10th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Thanks Matt 231 thought thats what it was.
MattQuote
December 10th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Hi Chaps, I am in the Anglia region and got the RED button option for HD with last nights match
Bob LuetchfordQuote
December 10th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I’m also in the Anglia region and the match was in HD, good quality picture too.
Roger DawsonQuote
December 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I recorded Survivors last night with BBCHD Preview stuck in the left hand corner! I hope for the 2nd showing it is removed.
COME ON BBCHD
BrianQuote
December 10th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Brian – i note there is NO bbc hd at all tonight, could be the start of something
Gazwlx – Chelsea in HD in Yorkshire, looked great to me, are you in scotland or wales ?
Sammy PQuote
December 12th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I watched Phantom Menace last Sunday on my Goodmans GFSAT200HD.
Apart from one break-up (with only the HD logo shown on the screen) I enjoyed it.
For SD channels I still use a Pace Javelin.
Reception is quite good in the fringe area where I live (East Germany, a few miles east of Leipzig), but I have to use a 110cm dish and a high quality LNB for Astra 2D.
H.-E. TietzQuote
December 12th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Set True Lies to record but not coming up as HD . Star Wars on sunday is coming up as HD ? South West ……area.
MattQuote
December 13th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Matt, ITV HD is accessed through the red button when the programme starts.
I do not know about how the Humax PVR records ITV HD, as I only have the standard foxsat.
I too live in the south west area, and last Sunday, Starwars was in HD, after pressing the red button when prompted.
MikeQuote
December 13th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
ITV HD’s DOG………..Could this be any bolder???
GrubbyQuote
December 13th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
I’m half way through True Lies but couldn’t set up the Foxsat HDR to record in HD. Watching it live it gives the “press red for HD” message but when I press the red button all I get is a bigh black square which says loading but HD never arrives! Is this an ITV problem or a Humax HDR problem? Any ideas?
AlantQuote
December 14th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Alant….Its itv..i had the same problem,”what a shambles it is”,no doubt we are all sitting there with our £1500 worth of hi tech equipment,reduced to suffering this pathetic set up they are offering us and as for the ITV-HD channel dog,could they not make it glow a little brighter and perhaps flash to distract us more.This red button thing should be scrapped,theyve made enough £££££’s out of the x-factor voting tonight so maybe they should spend some of that on getting this shambles sorted once and for all.
paul.jQuote
December 14th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Just checked the recording of True Lies from last night. Not only was it not in HD but I only recorded the first hour up to the news. Foxsat HDR is supposed to be clever enough to record both parts but I suspect this is a problem with the ITV program info. Oh well, I’ve seen it before anyway.
AlantQuote
December 14th, 2008 at 11:19 am
True Lies was in HD .. i’m in Scotland but use the 977 ITV London channel for any ITV HD content .. I’ve had no problems receiving HD programs .. but I don’t think i’ll be getting a PVR until everything is sorted out!
What an abysmal selection of HD progs ITV has over Christmas.. nothing for Christmas Ever or Christmas Day ! .. Thank goodness for the good ol’ Beeb lol
LizQuote
December 14th, 2008 at 11:20 am
lol .. Christmas Ever?? should be Eve:x
LizQuote
December 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Mike @241 When you select an ITV program to record with the HDR ,if its going to be in HD it should give you the option of recording it in HD. This did not happen with True Lies . But it did with Star Wars later to day, we will have to see if it works ?
Paul. j & Alant I got the HD red button for true lies pressed it for the first time & ITV HD came up straight away . Then watched the first half then pressed record after the News, added ten minutes on to the recording time ( as it was late starting ) Turned the Box off and went to bed . Just checked it and it recorded fine.
As i said it will be interesting to see if it can do star wars on its own .
Are your problems down to your area ? try using ITV london Is it Ch 977 ..
Good luck ……..
MattQuote
December 14th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Humax PVR did not record Star Wars in HD… V annoying as I wanted to show off my new HD PVR I just spent 300 quid on !!
I’ve found that if you “schedule” an ITV recording then it will not record in HD on ITV – just in SD. I’m assuming that this is solely to do with the red button HD access since all recordings on BBC HD are perfect every time.
If I hit the red button first and then start a manual record, then it records in HD – but that’s not the point of a PVR – I want to be able to record ITV in HD automatically via the schedule. COME ON ITV – Get your finger out and give us a true HD channel.
GraemeQuote
December 15th, 2008 at 1:44 am
This daft red button thing… Fortunately now quite a few FTA HD PVR’s do allow for timeshift recording with ITV HD. Don’t think I’ll be buying a humax any time soon
DaveQuote
December 15th, 2008 at 8:21 am
it would be down to humax to have the software on th stb to record from the HD transport stream not the SD, so the fault lies on humax not ITV
wow:)Quote
December 15th, 2008 at 9:30 am
To all of the above my Humax + HDR, PVR did record ITV HD ( star wars ) from standby, no problems at all .
Dave i was Timeshifting with the Live Buffer through the first half of True Lies . Then i recorded the end .
I sure I can’t be the only one with a box that works.
MattQuote
December 15th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I am only having trouble with ITV HD recordings and its only when they crow bar the news in half way through a film.Sometimes the recording will not re start to complete the rest of the film,BBC HD is fine.True Lies did not even show as a HD transmission in the epg.When i highlighted Star Wars in the epg and reserved it to record,it gave me 2 options record in HD or record in SD. After the news finished the recording failed to start back up.Had to do it manually.Wish ITV would sort this problem out…This RED button fiasco is a total farce..!
paul.jQuote
December 15th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I managed to record Star Wars from standby having selected it from the guide on Saturday. Recorded in HD, left the black screen (now with HD logo) in the middle when the news was on but not the end of the world.
Even managed to timeshift and watch from te start before it had finished recording.
I did have issues last week with not being able to get any HD but a fctory reset solved that and touch wood all is working as it should now – only question i have is that there is no way on earth you can fit 80 hours of HD on the Humax, no way, no how. I have about 11 hours of HD and a couple (literally a couple) of SD movies and its up at 44%.
Sammy PQuote
December 16th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Looks like I need to re try another ITV HD recording via the schedule. I am pretty sure I was not given the option to record in HD but I need to recheck.
It is annoying when breaking for news and the EPG shows blank in there.
Also – have it set up for +5 minutes after program end time and I went and missed the end of Top Gear on Sunday. There were no over runs or late starts so I don’t know what’s going on there.
From experience, does anyone know if it is best to set the recordings to the “On Time” mode or to add time (5 mins) etc?
GraemeQuote
December 16th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Sammy P @254 I went to HDD manager thing the day after I got the HDR & it said I could record around 35 hrs of HD only, hardly had any thing on it at the time. Not great then as thats the point of the box, being able to record HD and keep it on the now not so Massive hard drive.
Graeme @255 I’ve haven’t had any problems as yet with missing the end of a program, I’ve just left the box to do it. ( on time mode )
But I tried to record the gadget show last night like I used to with the TV OFF ( as forgot it was on ) pressed 105 record at 7.55 , only to find out later it stopped the recording just before it started .( my fault I know )
Anybody reading this and still thinking about getting a HDR , I love mine its great. ITV HD is NOT so great and NO DOLBY DIGITAL yet, it might say it is on the box & screen but sadly its not. ( BBC HD is every time )
MattQuote
December 16th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I’m still staggered there is nothing in HD on ITV over Christmas, why did I ever buy this freesat HD receiver?! As of today with MTV HD launched and Sci Fi HD next – Sky is now up to a staggering 30 (and soon to be 31) HD channels while theres still only 1 really on freesat, dreadful and I’m changing my mind as to where the rip off is occuring.
gazwlzQuote
December 17th, 2008 at 8:09 am
The clue is in the word “free”…
ABC
aybeeseaQuote
December 17th, 2008 at 11:06 am
yes but ‘free’ in this instance means a poor or almost non existent service. Why buy an hd telly and a freesat HD receiver when all there is on freesatHD is BBCHD from 6pm daily and an occassional ITV HD service, it is free of course – but definitely a waste of money
gazwlzQuote
December 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
as ABC stated, it is FREEsat and at the mo, its a new venture in HD services, more channels WILL arrive but not soon but they will arrive over the coming months/years, its a new service and with anything new-the inital uptake will show if it will be viable to increase HD channels and content as the cost for broadcasting these HD channels is LARGE, im happy with only 1 HD channel and no monthly subb’s for sky, I also do have sky and might in the new year take up their HD stb but then again I might just pay for a HUMAX PVR and have no monthly subs, BUT…
£300 for a humax HD PVR
or
£400 (ish) over a 12moth period and have a multitude of HD channels showing alot of upscaled movies and content, and then cancel the sub after the contract period and i will then have a HD box with about 3 Free HD channels..
think about it…. sky or free sat??
twas the same with SD freeview.. not alot of channels at first, now around 30 fta…
And….
The Beeb will be showing more HD content over the Xmas period as they had to apply for extra transmission times..
finally, FREESAT is a joint venture from the BBC and ITV..
wow:)Quote
December 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I’m happy with the stuff on BBC HD personally – and ITV HD is just an added “bonus” with the occasional film every so often. Freesat should be getting Channel 4 HD next year and I’m sure more HD channels will move over eventually (and BBC HD’s hours are due to expand next year).
DanielQuote
December 17th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I find the recent advertising by Freesat abit over the top.
Any one going for Freesat on the basis of this advert is going to be disappointed. There is only any significant HD available from BBC HD. Itv is rubbish and their use of the red button is going to confuse a lot of people.
I’ve given up trying to watch ITV HD because of it and I dislike intensely the super brilliant DOG, but hen they seem to regard it as an art form, just look at their other digital channels all have wonderful brilliant coloured DOGs – I just can’t watch them.
Come on ITV get your act together and let’s have a proper channel like the BBC.
peterhbQuote
December 18th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
@ 260 wow:)
Remember that when you cancel your Sky+ (SD or HD) subscription, the PVR functionality is switched off so it becomes a FTA receiver only…
ABC
aybeeseaQuote
December 18th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I wish that people would stop having a dig at ITV HD (including me in the past). Not many programmes are transmitted in 5.1 on ITV HD possibly because ITV havent got the streaming right but believe this will change, I also disagree that some of the programmes have been in poor quality. I watch numerous HD programmes and have only had ONE problem regarding picture quality which was on a episode of Poirot a couple of months ago, although to be fair I don’t have a freesat HD box but a Passion HD receiver and the picture quality I receive is consistently good. I would imagine no one who reads this page wants to see ITV HD go they way of On-Digital…..
PhilQuote
December 18th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
@ 263 ABC
Good comment
so the options remain are either a Humax pvr or a generic HD satellite HD stb with PVR funcions.
wow:)Quote
December 20th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Don’t have the time or inclination to check 265 posts to see if this info has already been put up, but the following HD schedule page has been created on the Freesat site:
http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.HDschedule
Shows the ITV HD scehule on the right hand side of the page, BBC HD on the left.
Paul.Quote
December 20th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Oh, and:
http://www.itv.com/Channels/HD/HDChristmasSchedule/default.html
Paul.Quote
December 20th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Why do we always hear all this moaning about a new service. That is the way it has always been. Things take time to get up and running.
As people have mentioned, in the late 60′s colour TV was the new big deal, but the people who first bought the expensive colour TV’s only got a couple of colour films a week from BBC 2. This is how it works. Early adoptors of new technology have to wait until the production and business models catch up.
Yes SKY has unlimited resources and 32 HD channels, but they also have a hefty price tag. I would rather throw my TV out and read a book than pay SKY £58 quid a month.
All I have paid for freesat is £120 quid for a box (we live in a flat with a communal dish). I am actually very happy with my investment so far. The SD channels have far better picture quality than on my Tiscali box or from the freeview reciever in my TV. I also get free HD football matches from ITV, and some really good HD programmes from the BBC.
Freeview service was ropey at the beginning, and bear in mind we are only 6months into freesat. I predict in 2 years there will be more HD channels and more output on the current HD channels.
If the naysayers on the internet keep slating freesat then guess what will happen….thats right, people will stop buying it and then there definitely wont be an improvemnent in service. Stop shooting yourselves in the foot!
Paul DQuote
December 20th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
i tried to watch Britannia High tonight (just to test ITV HD!). The red button took me to a blank screen, and Channel 977 was broadcasting in 576i. Is this me and my equipment (Pioneer 428 and Foxsat HDR) or is there a problem with the ITV broadcast?
AndyQuote
December 20th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
I think its your equipment Andy. I have the bush hd set top box and a cheapish LG TV and Ive never had a problem with ITV HD. Button comes up in seconds and takes me straight to the stream. It definitely isnt ITV so perhaps its an issue with reception on your dish?
Paul DQuote
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:18 am
Sky might offer 30 HD channels but there’s only so many hours in a day anyway, can’t watch everything, just the main 5 FTA channels doing their HD thing and properly without this red button nonsense would suit me. Ch4 HD are now making a better effort, you’d think by now FIve HD would be round the corner though
DaveQuote
December 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Paul D – I think you must be out-of-touch, the red button problem from ITV has been troubling viewers for months! You might get lucky, but most times it never works. Take a look at some of the other forums, there are a huge number of complaints.
Peter ApplebyQuote
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:10 am
Peter, how exactly am I out of touch? I have the cheapest HD freesat reciever available and it has never had a problem with the ITV red button service. EVER.
That surely proves that the signal is ok? i.e. not ITV’s fault.
I dont doubt there are people who have a problem but it must be down to their equipment/reception. I know certain aspects of the ITV broadcast are crap, ie no 5.1 sound and lower bitrates, but to blame them because some peoples boxes jam is ridiculous.
I had a goodmans freeview reciever that kept itv channels. It was tempting to blame ITV but in the end I got a different reciever and the ITV channels are perfect. I know ITV have been inept, but it is hard to beileve their HD ervice “doesnt work” considering I am watching it perfectly.
Paul DQuote
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 am
The last paragraph above should read “kept losing itv channels”
Paul DQuote
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
same here, i have a Humax freesat hd stb, NEVER had any issues getting ITV HD content on, has always worked perfectly, im very impressed so far on what i have for free really, never had picture breakup, press red and the HD stream is 100% reliable, only one thing that i will say, more content=more uptake. simple, otherwise this is a great product.
Merry Xmas all
..
wow:)Quote
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I agree, more content does equal more uptake, but, similarly, more uptake will equal more content. After the ondigital fiasco, ITV cannot afford to throw money at Freesat only to find people arent buying it.
The more we encourage people to buy, the more units will sell, the more content we will get and then the more units that will sell and so on, ad infinitum.
.
Paul DQuote
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Hi Paul D – I must confess you my may be right about the signal, although I’ve just bought a new Humax HDR box from Comet and had a man round to install it. I get BBC HD without a problem but I’ve always found it difficult to get ITV HD, even with my old system. It could be the area we live … sorry to offend.
Happy Christmas to you Paul.
Peter ApplebyQuote
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
No offence taken or meant Peter. Merry Christmas to you too. I did hear something about a misaligned dish messing up ITV HD but leaving BBC HD fine. Perhaps you could look into that.
Paul DQuote
December 24th, 2008 at 10:24 am
i would come down to misalignment i would think, just the polarity that the bbc and itv use are very different,
ITV HD is on 11426.00 H 27500 FEC 2/3
BBC HD is on 10847 V 22000. FEC: 5/6
try just turning your LNB(loosen the screws 1st) only slighty tho, but mark where it was before you do so, the beam that itv use is weaker than that of the bbc.
wow:)Quote
December 27th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
mm interesting thought, in the Granada and Wales regions the analogue signal goes off soon and the 4 main channels in HD are expected to start on freeview about the same time. If that is the case and we have BBC HD ITV HD (stand alone spot) CH4 HD and FIVE HD all on terrestrial digital freeview soon, then they have to become available on freesat too…but if you have a digital tv then these services will automatically appear on your hd ready tv!…Then the freesat box isnt required!..( nor Sky for that matter if you are one of those anti Sky brigade) Cant help thinking we are all going to be mighty confused this time next year! Some of us will be getting HD from 3 or 4 sources by then!
gazwlzQuote
December 27th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
nope, sorry, but when the freeview HD starts, you will need to get a freeview HD receiver….. your tv has freeview built in… BUT the TV is only HD READY!! so its ready to accept a HD input source..
correct me if im wrong tho ( but i do this stuff for my day job )
wow:)
wow:)Quote
December 27th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Erm – well wow – I’m informed (could be wrongly) that full HD tvs with in built freeview will automatically receive an HD service. Those with HD ready with freeview may have to have yet another receiver or add on of sorts. Its becoming a world of boxes and add ons isnt it lol.
gazwlzQuote
December 27th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
No Gazwz, Full HD simply means the TV can accept and display 1080p signals in its native resolution. There are no Freeview HD recievers, they havent been designed yet!
They require a new standard….DVB T2 instead of 1. They will probably go on sale end of next year. I wouldnt expect TVs with them built in until 2010.
The reason there are so many different boxes and upgrades is so that they can take our money. If they gave us future proof TVs now what would they sell us for the next 10 years? Yes its a con.
Paul DQuote
December 27th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Very good point Paul, keeps the industry going I guess.
gazwlzQuote
December 28th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Paul correctly points out that the new Freeview HD receivers will be able to receive the new DVB-T2 transmission standard, which is more efficient (thus allows more bandwidth and therefore higher bitrates and more channels).
They will also be able to decode the H.264 compression standard which is also more efficient (and incidentally is also being used in the high-quality iPlayer streams and the new cross-platform iPlayer Desktop downloader). Existing boxes generally only decode MPEG-2, so it’s really those two changes together that will enable Freeview HD and which mean that you will have to buy a new box if you want to receive HD channels on Freeview. (Existing channels will continue broadcasting for the time being in MPEG-2 on DVB-T).
AndrewMQuote
December 28th, 2008 at 9:58 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7328029.stm
a link on the subject, its an old news artical from april08, but worth a read.
wow:)Quote
December 28th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
The cost of buying the required new DVB-T2 “slots” and licences, together with upgrading and maintaining the entire terrestrial transmitter network seems money ill-spent…. Broadcasting via satellite is far more efficient.
SeeMoreDigitalQuote
December 31st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
I’ve recently bought a Pioneer 60″ Plasma which has a separate media box (no tuners in the screen part of the system) and it has Freesat built in as part of the 3 tuning options (Analogue, Digital and Satellite) it works beautifully and looks stunning (Blu ray movies are out of this world) So re the 1080p v 1080i – it’s a must to have 1080p IMHO (I also have a 10801 42″ Pioneer Plasma and the difference is amazing) I am receiving BBC HD and LUXE!! no problem at all but have yet to see ITV HD, just waiting for the red button to pop up LOL – I note that ‘The man who lost his head’ is supposed to be in HD tonight, so I’ll watch with great interest! BTW there is a set that comes with built in FREESAT which is the Panasonic range and am told the Samsung will have also soon – whilst ALL other brands should have built in FREESAT by middle of 2009 due to licensing laws!
M
CruisermanQuote
December 31st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Why is ITV HD and BBC HD hardly ever broadcasting good films. Around Christmas and New year you would expect more content to get more people interested in purchasing Freesat. The Jools Holland thing on for new years eve is even repeated content from last year. What happened to seeign the new year in properley with some good live HD content? Also where are the other HD channels. Are channel 4 going to come onto the Freesat platform and when? Do Five have any plans for an HD channel.
Chris SQuote
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Could you please also mention the end-time of tke programmes?
Best regards,
Joopj.
JoopjQuote
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
No problem, done
adminQuote
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I have just got a hd receiver for christmas and am very impressed with picture quality.I watch bbc hd alot and a lot of programs are repeated but i cannt understand why itv has so few programs and why it might not repeat some programs during the daytime rather than having a blank screen all day
anthony o neillQuote
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 am
I have just bought a Panasonic TV with Freesat built in and would like to watch the Liverpool v Preston game on ITV HD later today. Can anyone advise how I access the ITV HD channel as the channel does not appear to be listed? Many thanks……
Steve SQuote
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 am
Steve – Just go to the main ITV1 channel on 103 and wait for the ‘red button’ prompt when the programme starts. Press red and that will take you to the ITV HD channel. (please note that if you are in a UTV or STV region, you’ll need to change to a different region of ITV first, as they don’t have access to ITV HD)
adminQuote
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Cant wait for the Preston vs Liverpool game. The Chelsea one looked great on ITV HD.
Paul DQuote
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Preston North End v Liverpool in HD. Has broke up once, 10 mins into game, just had to revert to itv then press the ‘red button’ again. Thirty minutes into match still in HD, as Victor Meldrew would say “I don’t believe it”!
JeffQuote
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
January 4th, 2009 at 11:51 am
With regard to viewing ITV-HD, I find it bizarre that we are forced into pressing “the red button”. Why doesn’t it change over to HD automatically?
SeeMoreDigitalQuote
January 4th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
How lazy does one have to be to object to pressing a red button?
Paul DQuote
January 4th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
It has nothing to do with laziness. If more UK broadcasters follow ITV’s “red-button” method, watching high-def content will become very frustrating.
If you have a set-top box or TV capable of receiving high-def transmissions, the process of displaying such content should be automatic. If anything the “red button” should be offering selectivity to the std-def transmission….
SeeMoreDigitalQuote
January 5th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Watched ITV-HD tonight (Sunday) lip-sync problems. and the logo is
irritatingly too bright. what nerd thought that was a good idea.the BBC
logo is much better. Although i’ll never understand the need for a logo,
as most boxes will diplay or banner it
IanQuote
January 5th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Watched ITV-HD tonight (Sunday) lip-sync problems. and the logo is
irritatingly too bright. what nerd thought that was a good idea.the BBC
logo is much better. Although i’ll never understand the need for a logo,
as most boxes will display or banner it.
Today’s gripe over——-Ian
IanQuote
January 5th, 2009 at 2:41 am
must say both games, yesterdays and todays were pretty good in hd..no break up…no lip sync and pretty on the money….even the crime thingy above suspicion look good.
jon coleQuote
January 5th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
ive been reading all the 303 posts with great interest as i get my first foray into hd telly tomorrow with the installation of a dish and goodmans hd box.
i have never even seen hd so far and even with the negative comments i have read i am really looking farward to my new experience.
in at the deepend and i cant wait.
yeehaaaa!
a.a.tQuote
January 5th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
A.A.T. hope you are happy with the goodmans box. I find it great. Pictures on BBC HD are stunning and ITV HD football has been really good aswell.
I wouldnt take too much notice of the naysayers.
Paul DQuote
January 6th, 2009 at 11:47 am
I have to agree with Paul D, I have been on Freesat since August and am well impressed with the HD. The Beeb are getting better and better and even ITV are better than when I first joined up. Hopefully by the end of this year this forum will no longer need to exist
Bob LuetchfordQuote
January 6th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I bought a HumaxHD receiver in november after being a FSFS user for years with a S/H self installed system (I had a Sky sub for about a year and never watched anything I was paying for).
)
Both I and the other half agree that the Humax’s upscaled SD pic quality is better on Freesat on our 720p LCD via DVI (no HDMI
The picture quality on BBC HD is nothing short of fabulous and ITV’s Red Button is no problem at all. I’m looking forward to:-
1. having a choice of integrated (TV) equipment, maybe a Freesat PVR
2.some of the remaining missing channels. (FiveUS, Fiver)
3.CH4 HD
4.BBC iPlayer over ethernet looks like it will be useful too
So, no major complaints here so far then
KimRQuote
January 6th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
STILL NOT ENOUGH HD CONTENT AVAILABILITY FROM ITV. AN HOUR HERE , AN HOUR THERE!! IT IS MOST ANNOYING.
THEY HAVE A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO WITH THE BBC HD WHICH IN ITSELF IS NOT THAT GREAT.
JUST LIKE WITH THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION HD CHANNELS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, ITV2,ITV3,ITV4,CH4,CH5 ETC.
YASARQuote
January 7th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
thanks ADMIN for the zingzing link.. very usefull
cheers
wow:)Quote
January 7th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
ITV HD look like they are pulling their finger out though. We have virtually all ITv football now in HD, Drama like Wild at Heart, Brittania High, Above Suspicion are in HD and i suspect within the year ITV will have the policy of all significant drama in HD. We just need more films.
Paul DQuote
January 8th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Until ITV HD is available on all platforms including Sky, ITV will be wasting time. ITV have as usual shot themselves in the foot, it is amazing how this company continues to exist.
Wake up ITV.
S. HarperQuote
January 8th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
can anyone with a goodmans hd box please tell me how to add non-freesat channels.
ive been to that section and pressed a few butto ns with no response…yes,im new to all this
a.a.tQuote
January 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I viewed my first HD broadcasts at the weekend and I have to admit I was absolutely amazed at the quality of the pictures on both the BBC and ITV. Obviously, I’d prefer more HD broadcasts from these channels and more HD channels. But as others point out – it will take time.
Channel 4 currently provide HD broadcasts on the Sky platform – does anybody know if / when they will broadcast via Freesat?
Steve SQuote
January 8th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
C4HD will eventually appear on Freesat, but is currently under contract with Sky. We can only wait for this to expire, whenever that may be.
adminQuote
January 8th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Paul D: I agree, and ITV have promised that by late 2009 their primetime schedule will be HD.
LengFreesatQuote
January 9th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Wild At Heart is NOT HD acc to the ITV1 promo’s so why is it listed as such ? If it is though then well done to ITV as the scenery deserves some HD treatment
DaveQuote
January 9th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Leng Freesat, thats good news about ITV primetime, where did they say that? If thats true then maybe freesat is an even better investment than I thought!
Paul DQuote
January 10th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Can I get ITV HD on a non Freesat FTA Satallite receiver. If not, is it planned to happen in the future? I found BBC HD but no other.
I do agree that some of the Free To Air sat channels are better picture quality than freeview, but I still feel like the first to arrive at a party not due to start for about a year! There’s virtually nothing apart from BBC HD’s half hearted effort that I can’t see on freeview (nothing worth watching that is).
Paul GallonQuote
January 11th, 2009 at 1:18 am
just got my grundig hd box up and running after upgrading my 17 year old dish with new cable and lnb. going into a 42″ hitachi plasma and the standard picture is awsome without the hd. so the hd broadcast on bbc and itv is out of this world. the only gripe i have is the box has a digital output, optical cable, which runs into my marantz receiver but as yet nothing i have heard in hd has been put out in 5.1. Is this normal? is it the way it is set up? I have checked everything and the receiver is set up for the optical cable, is there a problem with transmissions in 5.1?
nick wQuote
January 11th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I recently bought Humax Foxsat STB. Can anyone tell me if you were able to watch Nanny Mcphee on ITV last night in HD. I was waiting for the red button to show up but nothing happened. Was it broadcats in HD or it wasn’t?
MarioQuote
January 11th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
No, ITV pulled the HD broadcast, which is why we removed it from our schedule.
adminQuote
January 11th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
nick w
Some BBC HD is 5.1, mainly music and fllms.
BBC HD Promo is 5.1 and Luxe HD.
WayneQuote
January 11th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Following on from what Dave said in 316, it does seem like Wild at Heart won’t be in HD. It isn’t listed as being in HD in any of the Radio Times, Zingzing (good site btw) or on Freesat’s own HD schedule page ( http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.HDschedule#sunday ).
AndrewMQuote
January 11th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
All the listings above are supplied by ITV as available in HD, but often they do change their mind etc, all we can do is list them until the point where ITV withdraw the HD content.
adminQuote
January 11th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
WELL ANDREW AND ADMIN YOU HAVE BEEN MISINFORMED. WILD AT HEART WAS IN HD
YASARQuote
January 11th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
We haven’t, we have included it in the schedule.
adminQuote
January 12th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
magazines show itv hd when its not transmitted and not shown when it is transmitted what an utter mess about time it was sorted out
haroldQuote
January 13th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Ah Wild at Heart was in HD after all…Unforgiven also last night and PQ was very good IMO. Some quite scary close ups of Surrane Jones !, so ITV making a bit of effort at last then
DaveQuote
January 14th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Trouble is that many of the listings magazines have to be published a long way in advance. For example, the Radio Times doesn’t list tonight’s (Wednesday 14th January) FA Cup replay because it likely wasn’t known about – it lists Foyle’s War.
RT at least is fairly good at showing when ITV is simulcasting something in HD, but as others have said it does rely on the broadcaster not chopping and changing things at the last minute. I don’t understand why they don’t seem keen to promote it online either.
Andy MerrettQuote
January 14th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Doesn’t our schedule above offer enough information? Just wondering as it includes all the current releases supplied by ITV, plus any removed when ITV decide not to broadcast in HD.
adminQuote
January 14th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Cheers admin – I went looking for this last week on ITV’s own site and was amazed to see the lengths they went to to avoid having to admit how poor their HD offering is…by not having any HD scedules on at all.
Now I know where to find out what’s on…or not on as the case may be. I hope someone at ITV is reading this.
The Duke Of HunsletQuote
January 14th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Excellent.. Southend vs Chelsea on ITV HD tonight looking great, thank you ITV . .
StevenQuote
January 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
IT SEEMS A LOT OF US (LIKE STEVEN AND ME) ARE THANKFUL TO ITV BECAUSE OF A RARE HD PROGRAMME SUCH AS LAST NIGHT’S STH’END-CHELSEA MATCH.
THE TRUTH IS IF YOU STARVE SOMEONE LONG ENOUGH, ANY FOOD YOU GIVE HIM AFTERWARDS WILL TASTE LIKE FOOD FROM HEAVEN.
WHAT ITV IS DOING IS ACTUALLY SHAMEFUL. TOTAL OF COUPLE OF HOURS OF HD PROGRAMME A WEEK IS JUST NOT RIGHT. IT IS GOING TO BE NEARLY A YEAR SINCE THE FREESAT HD PROGRAMMES STARTED. AND STILL HARDLY ANY HD CONTENT!!!
COME ON ITV GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND SORT THIS RED BUTTON AND HD PALAVER OUT.
YASARQuote
January 15th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I THINK ITS ABOUT TIME THAT MICHAEL GRADE MADE A STATEMENT AS TO ITV’S FUTURE POLICY ON AMOUNT AND CONTENT OF THEIR HD OUTPUT.
haroldQuote
January 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Yasar.. I wouldn’t describe myself as starved for ITV HD content, I was actually enjoying a curry, and a few lagers of course, during my viewing
. . I would have watched the match, HD or not, it was simply an added bonus..
I don’t think what ITV is doing is shameful, it’s just the way it is really. We all managed perfectly well without a mobile phone not that long ago, some people can’t live without one now, this definately is shameful.. I’ve also managed to survive without an iPOD pretty well so far as well..
I’m sure if someone can stump up, say, £100 million and bung it to ITV or the BBC they will be happy to put out more HD content, otherwise I don’t think they have the money . . Simple . .
StevenQuote
January 16th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
@ Yasar I agree with you it is SHAMEFUL what little hd content itv is producing !!
BBC are flying the Freesat flag, itv are just a disgrace !!!
DeanoQuote
January 16th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@ Steven we all know ITV have got the HD cameras so why not use them ??
does it cost more to film something with a HD camera rather than a standard one ????
DeanoQuote
January 17th, 2009 at 10:49 am
I don’t think it’s a matter of ITV having HD cameras or not. I don’t think simply having HD cameras turns a TV station into an HD one? Everything else has to be compatible too. “Does it cost more to film something with a HD camera” . . It depends if ITV have enough HD recording equipment to go round, possibly not?
ITV HD is not on Astra 2D but Eurobird 1 which covers all Europe so we have the same problem as Channel4 and five waiting for space possibly..
StevenQuote
January 18th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I have just noticed the main Freesat site gives you HD TV (BBC & ITV) listings for the whole week.
here : http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.HDschedule
Check out the ITV side compared to the BBC its a DISGRACE !!
DeanoQuote
January 18th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Problem is we don’t recommend anyone use it, as they don’t update it often so anything that should have been HD but ITV have changed their mind on doesn’t get removed from the site. Use our schedule above for all the latest.
adminQuote
January 19th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
if i’m honest the only programing that really seems t benifit from hd is sports. watching football on itv is the business. whereas watching dramas etc its just a clearer picture, it doesn’t really enhance my enjoyment to an extent that i would complain about it.
euan melvilleQuote
January 20th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Euan I have to disagree with you. Yes football benefits massively but so do many other kinds of programmes.
Something like “tiger:spy in the jungle” was just breathtaking in HD. Films also look truely cinematic.
HD is NOT just a clearer picture. It has better colur and greater depth to the picture.
Paul DQuote
January 20th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I AM AFRAID I AGREE WITH PAUL D . HD IS THE FUTURE. THE FILMS ARE UNBELIEVABLY CLEAR IF TAKEN WITH HD CAMERAS. I HAVE WATCHED AT A SONY SHOWROOM AN HD PROGRAMME ON A SONY KDL-55X4500 AND THE PICTURE WAS STILL CRISP WHEN I WAS NEARLY NEXT TO THE SCREEN(TAHT IS A 55 INCH SCREEN). WITH MY 40 INCH BRAVIA, SD PROGRAMMES ARE VERY STANDARD!!. BUT WITH TRUE HD THE TV COMES ALIVE. THE PROBLEM IS , AS I GET USED TO THE HD I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO GO BACK TO SD.
YASARQuote
January 20th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I just noticed that the ITV hd website now has the listings.
http://www.itv.com/Channels/HD/WeeklyHDSchedule/default.html
Peter PiperQuote
January 25th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
yes that site now has the listings… but they are not as detailed as what is on here..
wow:)Quote
January 27th, 2009 at 10:51 am
I see in todays paper that Sky b made only 60 MILLION profit last year a difference of 660 millions from the previous year. Will the reluctant tv channels realise that Freesat is the way forward and people power counts in the end.Bring it on.
loughlinQuote
January 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Its about time for a free to view only tv mag .Most households do not have pay TV and trying to fit all the options in makes hard work for the majority of viewers.A sharp publisher would corner the market.
meonQuote
January 29th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Hi, Can you tell me is there a site that shows channel 4 HD programs, if not perhaps you would consider it for yourselves
Anthony HelmanQuote
January 29th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
I just noticed that england vs spain is showing in HD. I havent seen england in HD before but that evening im going to be in a hotel in carlisle. What a bummer.
Paul DQuote
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 am
@Paul D
We’re in no way footie fans at our house but the England Germany friendly was one of the first things we watched in HD on our new Humax, the missus and I both agreed it was gobsmackingly good, the quality and an England win made it worth watching.
We’ll definitely be watching England V Spain, sorry you’ll miss it :’-( ——
KimRQuote
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Hi KimR, enjoy the game! I wont actually miss it as the hotel will have ITV1 but its gonna look bloody awful compared to the HD im used to watching football in now. Perhaps I can find a local pub with SKY HD….
I actually watched the england vs germany game in a rock bar in lanzarote. I didnt mind that because the screen was 100 inches, but not HD unfortunately.
Paul DQuote
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
zingzing — one word… awesome
pgrayemQuote
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
I am struggling to understand how ITV functions as a business. Last night it had a new and very expensive series on called ‘Whitechapel’. This is already receiving accolades for the camera work – but will we be able to experience this brilliant new series in HD? Will we heckers like!
Our HD fix is Tremors3 and The Fast And The Furious instead.
I call upon Michael Grade to resign. Utterly rubbish.
The Duke Of HunsletQuote
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I find it very strange that Pushing Daisies (ITV1, Fridays, 10pm) isn’t on ITV HD, after all it is aired in HD in the US so an HD master should be very easy to get hold of.
AndrewMQuote
February 5th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Ha Ha, I watched Everton V Liverpool all the way through last night on ITV HD,
– but a GREAT result for ITV HD.
INCLUDING THE FAMOUS MISSING GOAL!!!!
So – not only a great result for E–V–E–R–T–O–N oy-oy-oy
To all you poor people who missed the action GET FREESAT MATE
KimRQuote
February 5th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Same for me I saw the goal on ITV hd aswell
TomQuote
February 8th, 2009 at 11:25 am
So the Brit awards on 18/2/09 are not in HD?? – another coup for ITV then?
KDHQuote
February 10th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Zingzing.tv It would be nice if they said if a program was a REPEAT (r) as it is bad enough watching Midsomer Murders the first time round . Luckily other TV guides do put a (r) in, a lot of the time so I don’t have to record them for the other half .
Looking forward to watching the footy tomorrow .
MattQuote
February 11th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Come on ITV why is it ( football ) no longer in HD ? I’ve been looking forward to that. BBC HD it is then & Natures Great Events. After watching Football & Rugby in HD who wants to go back to the SD picture.
MattQuote
February 11th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Great, another let down from ITV HD. Would have been good to watch the match tonight in HD as well. Seriously need to improve their HD quantity or lack of it.
Anyone know why all of a sudden they’re not broadcasting it in HD?
AndrewQuote
February 11th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
So so so tired of ITV. Unbelievable.
….conspiracy theory; Sky, somehow have they influenced this? Is there a deal on the table…is at a back hander?
PVRKingQuote
February 11th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
No conspiracy theory, although it would be exciting
Believe the game might have moved stadiums which possibly aren’t setup for HD. Cannot confirm this though!!
adminQuote
February 11th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Nature’s Great Events for me too then !
KimRQuote
February 21st, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I’ve just got the Humax HDR system – How do you record the ITV HD (when they are transmitted) ?
MartinQuote
February 21st, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Martin, just press record from the tv guide for the programme you want on ITV and if it’s also simulcast in HD, it will give the option.
adminQuote
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Admin . Bourne not coming up as HD on the 28 th ?
Matt GQuote
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Matt, as with ITV usually, it’s still confirmed as HD until it’s not
adminQuote
February 24th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Well, looks like the game is in HD and looks very good. Had a couple of sound drop outs which ive never had before.
What really annoyed me is that I emailed ITV HD to ask if they would confirm its in HD. They didnt even reply.
Paul DQuote
February 24th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
also getting sound dropouts every 5 mins or so…
awesomewellesQuote
February 28th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
ITV – jokers.
Bourne Supremacy – suggestions were it was going to be HD but the guide didnt recognise this fact so we couldnt pre-set for a record in HD.
Flicked to it tonight (having been watching some HD content recorded earlier) only to find there is a red button for HD !
IDIOTS. They should just give it up and give the band width to C4 who might be able to deliver some level of quality service.
No wonder the share price is drowning. Cant see them as a credible business if they cant deliver a hd proposition like everyman and his dog appears to be able to.
S PQuote
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
S P bit harsh that . I put my post in @ 366 in reply to Admin’s answer of 364 how to record ITV HD ?
The problem seems to be having the Jigsaw up ( split program ) and the HD flag. It seems to be one or the other at the moment. I kept the faith pressed the Red Button and recorded the hole lot including the news. It would be nice if they could sort it out soon.
Matt GQuote
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
[quote]341 euan melville Says:
January 19th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
if i’m honest the only programing that really seems t benifit from hd is sports. watching football on itv is the business. whereas watching dramas etc its just a clearer picture, it doesn’t really enhance my enjoyment to an extent that i would complain about it.[/quote]
If I’m honest I feel it is the other way around. Yes, the scenery would be fantastic if Ski Sunday were in HD but putting football on in HD is a waste of resources. The programmes which benefit most are pretty obviously the travelogues and documentaries where HD helps you see in greater detail. – Something totally unnecessary for football.
Tatra ManQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
ITV SORT IT OUT
they just cant get anything right the sound on the football keeps cutting out !!!
im sure its not just me ???
DeanoQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Deano, it’s cutting out for me to, in the Anglia region. Could always put Radio 5live commentary on!! Let’s hope it’s sorted before the Man U – Fulham match
Roger DawsonQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Yep, it’s happening for me too, I don’t think I’ve been able to watch a game in HD on ITV without this problem, I’ve had to switch back to SD as it’s unwatchable.
Daniel MurphyQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Sound dropouts every 5/10 seconds here in Kent too. I’d listen to the radio if it wasn’t about 2 secs ahead of ITV HD broadcast
Steve GrayQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Problems with the sound on the football check out home page !!
DeanoQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Same for me, inbearable to watch, sound cut outs every 10 seconds.
TomQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Live in Glastonbury ,Somerset -hope they get it sorted bfore the Fulham ,United Game !!
NickQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I’ve just put the Man Utd game on, no sound drop outs so far, but this is possibly the worst HD picture I’ve ever seen.
Daniel MurphyQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
hmm….my picture is spot on.
very crisp and clear.
alnQuote
March 7th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
It isnt HD. Its upscaled Sd. Presumably this is their temporary “fix” of the audio problem. Its a disgrace.
Paul DQuote
March 8th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
So let me get this right. If you miss the red button “invite” at the beginning of the program, you can’t watch it in HD for the rest of the broadcast? I missed the beginning of the program ‘Sunday 8th March 2009 Wild at Heart (drama) – 8.15pm to 9.15pm’ and i pressed the red button on my Foxsat HD remote, but it just went to the channel select and not to the HD broadcast. How annoying.
Steve LQuote
March 9th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Steve L @ above You should be able to get ITV HD at any point in the program by pressing the red button. If you would like a invite, just change channel and come back to ITV. ( well I can on my HDR ) maybe they had problems in your area . Try ITV on 977.
Matt GQuote
March 13th, 2009 at 11:43 am
As I predicted ages ago, ITV HD is now available on Sky HD . Sky subscribers who have had the EPG upgrade this week have discovered it at 11.427 2/3 – named as 10510 in the list and it can be saved in the other channels list. So obviously its likely to be in the main EPG sometime later this year.
AndywalezQuote
March 13th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
@Andywalez That’s fine for Sky subscribers. If they can now have ITV HD as a ‘proper’ channel why can’t Freesat viewers have the same ??
Leaves a nasty taste in your mouth – What’s Murdoch been upto now?
peterhbQuote
March 14th, 2009 at 10:19 am
I have not had my EPG upgrade yet but I see from peoples comments on other forums that although ITVHD is available, pausing or recording is not possible which is the case with all channels in the ‘other channels’ section of Sky. What I was pointing out was that its probably the first sign that ITVHD will probably become a fully fledged channel soon (on both Sky and Freesat) and my guess is that at the same time freesat will probably be in line for CH4 HD and Five HD by years end as the digital switchover gets under way. Everything will have to become available on all platforms at some stage. So free HD stuff on freeview just has to become available on freesat – but also accessible on Sky too. Its us early takers up of the likes of Sky HD and Freesat HD that have this endless wait and muck about before everything settles down!
AndywalezQuote
March 28th, 2009 at 9:39 am
itv HD will also be going on virgin media’s hd platform in april, but as far as i can make out, it will show normal sd then the hd content….. just like ch4hd, they show an upscaled version of ch4 then hd content.
wow:)Quote
March 30th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Why isn’t there a HD button on the remote control.
Makes more sense than using the Red Button which is generally used for interactive services on other channels.
Did nobody think of this before it was released?
Freesat?Quote
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 am
Sound was good last night during the England v Ukraine match on ITV_HD, it did not drop out all night.
Derek BQuote
April 4th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
just been talking to my mate who has sky hd, and he’s been given a hack for his sky box and can now receive itvhd as a dedicated channel !! so much for exclusivity!
jon coleQuote
April 5th, 2009 at 9:21 am
@Freesat? , it is interactive hd content hence the red button…
@jon cole, since this channel was launched, you could get it with any hd satellite receiver not just freesat rx and even then you had it as a standalone channel.
wow:)Quote
April 5th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
@wow wot u on about itvhd is exclusive to freesat eh?
jon coleQuote
April 6th, 2009 at 8:09 am
jon cole
The ITV HD Red Button Interactive Service is Exclusive to Freesat box’s only. It is a non encrypted channel and any satellite receiver capable of tuning in to it can pick it up. Sky+ HD soft ware has been changed so they can now do this.
Matt GQuote
April 6th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
April 6th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Matt G.
The interective red button is not exclusive to freesat as it will also work on a Passion HD receiver due to a firmware upgrade that happened 2 months ago.
PhilQuote
April 7th, 2009 at 11:20 am
April 7th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Phil
I stand corrected, the more people that can watch ITV HD the better in my opinion. More viewers more revenue better programming.
Matt GQuote
April 7th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Hi,
Just watched the Utd game, but this is now the 2nd time that highlights immediately after of other game (this time Villareal Vs Arsenal) also looked in HD.
Can anyone confirm this?
Picture quality of Arsenal highlights definitely wasn’t SD. I also noticed this during last round of champs league games a few weeks back.
If so, surely ITV could put the highlights at 10:35pm of both games on their HD channel?
AndrewQuote
April 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
What I don’t get is that they’re struggling to put one programme on a night, yet they show hd movies at 1.30 in the morning. Makes sense to just launch a proper channel that shows an ITV hd preview the 99% of the time when hd programming isnt on.
TomQuote
April 10th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Yes, I’ve said it before I find it very frustrating that ITV HD has so few programs. This week and its Easter there is so little on ITV HD. They need to make a greater commitment to broadcasting in HD and take a leaf out of the BBC HD channel that has nine hours of programs each day plus HD clips so that the public can see what HD is all about. So ITV if you read this move over to a dedicated ITV HD Channel and start putting out six to nine hours per day.
Yours in anticipation!!
Derek BQuote
April 11th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
cliffhanger not in HD? ..
lizQuote
April 11th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
dont look like it and crappy tremors 3 was even though it was on at 1:30 am !
ziggyQuote
April 12th, 2009 at 11:21 am
@jon cole
its never been exclusive to freesat(only advertised as it is) if you have a HD generic satellite receiver you just need to scan the transponder that its beamed out on, and guess what……. any one can get it….. its only recently appeared on the sky epg… so if it was exclusive to freesat then the below wouldnt be accessable by joe public…
11428 H 27500 2/3
Video PID – 3401
Audio PID – 3402
PCR PID – 3401
Service ID – 10510
PMT PID – 3400
HD/SD: HD Channel
now thats all you need to get itv HD on a HD generic satellite receiver as a stand alone channel…..
simple..
wow:)Quote
April 14th, 2009 at 9:14 am
@wow:)
Hiya,I’ve manually entered the details you provided (freq,pol,sym rate and FEC) on my humax(setup,software update,manual update) but get a reply that new software is not found.I have noticed that if it is entered via setup,manual tune then the option for 11428 isn’t even available for scan,11426,11427 is, but then it jumps to 11469, does that mean Freesat boxes need an update to scan this? Your comments appreciated.
Bob LuetchfordQuote
April 19th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
3 times the Radio Times have advertised films as being in HD, Cliffhanger, Inside I’m Dancing and yesterdays True Lies, none of these have been shown in High Def, I presume the Radio Times get the info from ITV. A film that was show in HD was rubbish and not just the film itself, the quality was not at all what I would expect from HD. I have The 40 YO Virgin so I won’t be need to watching that but I hope that Door in the Floor, The Flintstones & Boy Meets Girl will get show in HD.
Daniel AQuote
April 21st, 2009 at 6:30 am
WOW! says — The lack of transponder space on Astra 2A saw ITV having to output the HD signal on Eurobird 1. As this satellite is much more powerful than Astra2A and ITV doesn’t have the broadcasting Rights to beam its content into Europe ITV had to take steps to hide it’s signal from non UK viewers. Receivers that allow you to specify channel parameters (Including PDI’s) allow you to (as you note) allow you to set the parameters and to receive the ITV HD signal. As I understand it the latest SKY EPG allows reception of ITV HD although I am not sure if it is specifically listed. Bear in mind though that ITV didn’t wish SKY to output the HD signal for obvious commercial reasons and may take steps to circumvent this.
Les NicolQuote
April 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Bob Luetchford – You may need to try this in non-Freesat mode to set up – You may or may not be aware that the Humax DTR has a hidden menu structure this is principally to permit motorised usage of the receiver using the onboard diseqc software. Not to sure if you need to access this menu to change transponder parameters or whether you will be able to manage this simply in non Freesat mode.
Les NicolQuote
April 21st, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Bob Luetchford – Forgot to mention that access the hidden menu isn’t available in the manual and you will have to obtain this – should be accessed OK on Freesat forums. Straightforward process though – unlike unlocking say a mobile phone!!
Les NicolQuote
April 21st, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Les Nicol_Thanks for the info,now have access to Eurobird,Eutelsat etc,etc, might even swing the dish about and have a play,once again thanks, sorry admin I know I have gone off track a bit.
Bob LuetchfordQuote
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:21 am
Bob Luetchford – Astra2 Sats and Eutelsats Eurobird 1 are received at your dishes present position. Be careful in moving your dish around as you may not be able to peak signals accurately without a professional meter. Pro meters have all receivable sats programmed in and can regularly be updated (via internet downloads) when parameters change for whatever reason.
Les NicolQuote
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:29 am
As Freesat launched I was quite excited about it thinking that just like with digital revolution we would start having more and more HD content and more and more channels joining the HD bandwagon! But it seems that I was wrong. Freesat’s momentum has slowed down with respect to HD channels and of course the main contributors BBC and especially ITV are so slow in introducing more HD content that to tell you the truth I am losing interest.with Freesat. My default channel is still Freeview.(it has better picture quality and more channels such as virgin, dave, fiveUS , Fiver etc and less spam channels). To enjoy the beauty of HD in this lifetime I don’t think I am going to wait any longer. Sky seems to be the choice of the day and reluctantly I feel I am being pushed in to getting SKY HD and forget about Freesat altogether especially as the offers from SKY are becoming more and more attractive.
YASARQuote
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 am
Yasar – I can see where your coming from in your comments. Apart from Sky sports much of the Sky HD content is “canned” rather than original Sky productions – Perhaps if ITV stepped up a gear and also inlcuded more feature film HD content and we saw the inclusion of Channel four HD output on Freesat we would begin to have a more level playing field At the moment Sky gets a free ride with the inclusion of BBC HD within their EPG and with their subscribers now being able to access ITV HD. Perhaps BBC and ITV should restict their output to “Freesat” and Freeview? Pretty unlikely this would happen but it would be interesting in competition terms. I thing however that Sky would be squealing somewhat if they were to lose this broadcasting plus which clearly benefits them financially.
Les NicolQuote
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Just had the new sky hd epg update this morning, took seconds to tune itv hd in. I’m really looking forward to seeing the champs league in hd. I have had glorious hd football for over 2 years now but its been horrible watching the sd rubbish on itv. Freesat exclusive ,what happened there ?!
Dan PriceQuote
April 24th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Dan Price – Broadcasters wishing to have their program listings included in the SKY EPG have to pay for this facility. ITV won’t be paying this if their scheduling isn’t on the EPG rather than where you actuallly set this up yourself. Obviously SKY who may not be reaping the benefits of an annual substantial ritghts payment from ITV see the spin off benefits for themselves if their receivers software (as Eurosat FTA receivers can manage) in picking up ITV HD. Mind you if ITV choose to as I previously posted – circumvent this by altering the broadcasting parameters then of course the situation changes. Currently Freesat is asking for £30.000 a year for inclusion on the freesat EPG I can tell you that it’s a hell of a lot more for broadcasters to get in included on the SKY EPG.
Les NicolQuote
April 24th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Dan Price – As an after thought I suppose if the new SKY EPG allows subscribers to add channels not listed on their EPG then for example if the BBC withdrew their listings and you had to set this up yourself then the revenues paid to SKY for inclusion in their EPG funded by the licence payer could be re = channeled into BBC programming?
Les NicolQuote
April 25th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Les I notice that while ITVHD is available following Thursdays upgrade – the freesat service and information channels ( of which I counted 4) are not and are being blocked by ITV so it could be that ITV are fine with the channel being available via Sky after all. I still think all will be available to all via all platforms within the next year or so as switchover of terrestrial continues. As usual its the consumer who gets muddled, I bought a freesat receiver in December for ITV HD but now have ITV HD on my Sky system, had I known that would happen so quickly I wouldnt have bought the freesat receiver in the first place! After all the amount of HD on ITV so far probably wouldnt fill a full days broadcasting yet!
AndyQuote
April 27th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
ITV HD on Sky and Freesat service so far.
Well, this has really p’d me off! Freesat had better get their act together if they are going to keep me interested in their service. I can appreciate SKY is a paid for service and that they should have superior content – rightly so. But I would at least expect Freesat to have a few exclusive channels with one being HD at least for the next year or so. With Freesat saying nothing about when C4 HD is expected (ball park is fine, not an exact date!) I can see this turning in a Betamax vs VHS, HD-DVD vs Bluray type battle with the popularity going right down and being a redundant service in a few years. Probably when the whole analogue switch-over has happened and everyone is buying Freeview HD instead, I do miss Virgin, Five US etc on Freesat.
RichardQuote
April 29th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Agreed – it is always the consumer that gets nailed with these things. Think Premiership (not that I presonally am that bothered), in steps the regulator and suddenly if you want to see all the games you have to pay for Sky and Setanta !
As for Freesat becoming obsolete I dont agree, what about those of us that cant get Freeview ? I am going to be very very annoyed however if C4HD is available on Freeview before Freesat – cant everyone just get along for the good of the viewer ?
Wouldnt it be a good idea for someone to stick their neck out and give potential new freesatters an indication of a launch date for any new HD channels / channels, even if its a 6 month window.
I would guess the C4HD issue will stem from their Sky contract preventing C4 revealing the expiry of the exclusivity, thus discouraging viewers from weighing the non-subscription (ie not Sky) options.
samQuote
April 29th, 2009 at 9:45 am
A quick sarcy answer would be JUST GET SKY if you want the channels, BBC HD, C4HD and ITVHD (now with the new EPG) it’s all a bit trivial to be wanting 6 months notice that you “might get C4HD” If you are that concerned about it to come here and write then why not shell out a few quid a month and get 30+ channels including more sports/movies than you can shake a stick at, all the FTA channels, i dont see what freesat has to offer, the odd channel thats different to freeview and no subs sure, but the service is poor to say the least and you still have to get a dish put up. SKY HD for the win!!!!!
JimmyQuote
April 29th, 2009 at 10:17 am
ITV HD is a joke. Look at this week’s programmes! Not even 6 hours. And as 25% of the time is gobbled up by adverts you end up with approximately 4.5 hours HD content for this week.
I can understand viewers who could not get freeview and had to go the freesat route. But for those of us who already had freeview and wanted HD in our lives it certainly has been frustrating.
First of all Freesat’s picture quality is nowhere near as clear and sharp as Freeview for SD. Then there is the missing channels issue such as Fiver , five US , Virgin , Dave, Sky 3, Sky News etc.
BBC HD shows programmes that have already been shown on other BBC channels so that is a bit of a downer. (Heroes is a good example of this). The HD content on BBC HD still not enough for my taste.
So is it worth it ?
Well apart from odd matches(like last night) and one may be two BBC HD programmes a week I never turn my Freesat receiver on. Freeview is still the norm in my living room.
To open up Freesat to the bigger public Freesat has to think about the likes of us and bring in at least one more HD channel and more HD content for the current ones.
YASARQuote
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
i agree with the last part of yasars post.
i also find that i only switch on my hd box for football and the odd bbc prog.
i knew the score on freesat hd content before i bought it but really thought there would be an,at least, half way decent choice by now. until there is then freeview is also my main viewing choice.
come on freesat and “up the ante”"
alnQuote
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:23 am
I’ve got Freesat on a Humax Foxsat HDR & I got all the “5″ channels plus loads of other FTA when I did a manual tune. I don’t expect to get loads of stuff yet, it’s a relatively new service, although as I only tend to watch BBC, ITV & C4 it is a very cost-effective solution compared with Sky. I’m saving nearly £500 a year over my old Sky+ setup & now I get HD too!
DipperQuote
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:13 am
Les Nicol – you said freesat are asking for £30000 a year to be included in their epg. Are itv having to pay that to be included in the freesat epg because as far as i was aware , bbc and itv ran freesat and shouldn’t they get that for free ?
Dan PriceQuote
May 5th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Dan Price – £30.000 is the fee set by Freesat that is charged to other broadcasters who opt for inclusion on the Freesat EPG. As you rightly point out Freesat is a joint venture between the BBC and ITV. The Freesat EPG applies more advanced technology and consumer features than that of others eg SKY and the common Euro standard found on FTA boxes. where advanced program settings features such as those in Freesat aren’t incorporated. Freesat boxes incorporate customiised hardware and software features and manufacturers are required to meet a standard set by Freesat as of course will SKY boxes which incorporate their EPG.
Les NicolQuote
May 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Dan Price – The only other 7day EPG that is more fullly featered that I am aware of Is that used in the Humax iCord Eurosat receiver (Principally released for the German market) this receiver incorporates Sony’s TV TV EPG.
Les NicolQuote
May 7th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I’ve been using freesat since last November and I am very happy with it. I live in an area of S Wales where we can get neither an anologue or digital terrestrial signal, so if we wanted to watch the local Welsh news and weather, we couldn’t, we had to watch the Bristol stuff through the Mendip transmitter, so Freesat has been a boon to us.
We have found the BBC HD programming has been great with a good mixture of programming which should suit most people. However, ITV’s HD schedule has been disappointing. We have enjoyed some of the films, although we have a Blu-ray player and rent films, and I think we’ve only watched one drama, but where are the light entertainment programmes? My wife was hoping the likes of Ant & Dec show, Dancing on Ice and Britains Got Talent would be broadcast in HD, but it seems it’s not to be.
BuskerQuote
May 12th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Freesat as a concept is great. The picture quality is very good, but the HD content is appalling. Why can’t BBC HD show any films? I think I’ve seen one on it – Finding Nemo. They should have films every night.
ITV do better in that respect, and the quality is usually very good, but they can’t even show the films in their true screen aspect ratio. It’s a complete joke.
Sky really is the only choice for HD unfortunately, as by the time Freesat gets its act together Freeview HD will be out.
MikeQuote
May 15th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Whilst it’s still catch up time for Freesat in respect of HD content it has influenced SKY’s marketing strategy in the price reduction of their SKY receivers although not their subscriptions. It seems this has also influenced them in updating their EPG thus permitting subscribers to now manually set up tuning parameters (thus being able to tune to ITV HD) I suspect this is some attempt to stem subscribers cancelling their subs than anything else. SKYcertainly does offer more exstensive HD content but Sport apart much of this is canned and bought in. There is no broadcasting requirement on SkY for home produced programming ( and this is a costly requirement made on public service broadcasters, but to the benefit of viewers) At this time you can’t archive viewing material with a SKY box off the receiver itself and back ports eg: the eSata – external component are disabled. I do however note that SKY are working on the introduction of future interactive and online TV in real time services but here it’s catch up time for them in respect of the BBC ITV BT consortium (assuming clearance by the BBC trust) on their planning in this area. It also seems that broadcasters including SKy are going to benefit from the sharing of the BBC’s iPlayer Technology as this is likely to be opened up to others
Les NicolQuote
May 18th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Will this years FA CUP final between Chelsea and Everton be shown on ITV HD?
NickQuote
May 18th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Yes, it’s on the schedule???
adminQuote
May 30th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Why is the sound on ITV HD up and down for the FA Cup Final on my Onkyo Amp
MattQuote
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Nature’s Fury on ITV HD tonight was fantastic. Well done ITV. They seem to be starting to get a schedule together. They are still behind the BBC but all their HD programs are very good quality now. Dunkirk on sunday was also great.
PaulQuote
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:06 am
Watched the champs league final on itv hd, it was terrible quality. Loss of picture, sound and score board on a frequent basis. Anyone else have that issue ? It seemed at points it was switching from hd to sd.
Dan PriceQuote
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Champions’ League started off OK but after 40 minutes there were some glitches and the rest of the match was in SD (I think, although it has to be said that the SD on HD was better than the SD on SD, if you follow.) Very poor. I’d be interested to know whether or not ITV were getting the pictures from someone else or producing the coverage themselves.
I watched the FA Cup last Saturday and it was practically flawless. I would have liked a bit of crowd noise in surround but you can’t have everything.
‘Nature’s Fury’ was excellent too.
My whinge (whilst I am here) is that there are some good films in HD but waaaay too late. I’d love to watch T2 tonight but I shall zzzzing away by 23:05!
Peter ThompsonQuote
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:51 pm
hey – the old ITV HD….. is this the beginning of something half decent ! nightly classic movies in HD. Between the BBC (quality programming no movies) and ITV (NO programming but movies) we can almost lay claim to a HD channel !
Credit where credit is due though. We have movies in HD (assuming they are on)
samQuote
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
at last something to record on my humax hd pvr
on itv i hope this is only the start
of more hd on itv
m o malleyQuote
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Why put the films on so late? And I’m guessing they’ll still only be in DD 2.0
DaveQuote
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Got to get rid of this red button nonsense. It would never happen in the states or Australia where FTA HD is a lot more common then here. I watch ITV HD as a normal channel on a Vantage 8000S PVR satellite receiver…When half of all prime time shows incl all soaps and some daytime progs like This Morning are HD THEN we can can say ITV HD has ‘done good’
DaveQuote
June 5th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Mike,
Freeview HD will only be 720p not 1080i and will only have (at most) four HD channels so don’t bother waiting. Also the bitrate will probably be lower than Freesat.
Looking forward to ‘The Bill’ in July.
Tony HalesQuote
June 9th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Any more news when CH4 HD will come to Freesat?
Just ordered my foxsat PVR and after reading a few of these messages re the paucity of HD content I am off to slit my wrists!
GaryQuote
June 17th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
June 18th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
To be fair ITV HD is getting better, and more HD programs, like The Royal and The Bill are welcome.
Derek BQuote
June 24th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I am enjoying Wimbledon on BBC HD, but the sound quality is quite poor ..(lower than ordinary BBC) .. has anyone else noticed this? .. I have a Humax Foxsat HD box
lizQuote
June 25th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
“To be fair ITV HD is getting better, and more HD programs, like The Royal and The Bill are welcome.”
Not last night when Spain:Paradise Lost was unwatchable in HD
KimRQuote
July 4th, 2009 at 10:25 am
July 4th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Re: Liz
Wimbledon sound quality is fine through the Humax, BBC are broadcasting in 5.1 Dolby(thank heavens !) although they are not using the centre speaker for the commentary, possibly due to the fact there are usually at least 2 commentators on therefore I guess they use the normal (2)front speakers for vocals, but the surround/ambience crowd is excellent through a 5.1 receiver. The audio is usually at a lower level on the Humax @ HD than *ordinary BBC*, nevertheless its superior.
retro_punkQuote
July 5th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
ITV HD listings, TV&Satellite Week magazine lists Freesat channels and also states when an ITV program is in HD. As for Red button or dedicated channel, I would prefer a dedicated channel for ITV, even if it means most of the time we just get previews or whatever.
TonyQuote
July 24th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Itv should have a seprate channel for HD TV. ITV where the first people do digital tv yes it went bust but that was because people where getting dogy cards and thats why ondigital and ITV digital went bust .but you had pay for that on top of the licenes .and you should not prays sky at all the BBC / ITV ?CHANNEL 4 are
joeQuote
July 27th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
When will people learn that ITV HD is not just for FREESAT customers but for SKY HD to!! just do this…press SERVICES… then go to OPTIONS… then go to ADD CHANNELS…scroll down to frequency and type 11427… so it reads 11.427……………….. THEN go scroll again to polarisation and set it to H…. leave the other two the same and then press the YELLOW button… add the channel that says 10510… the save it… the channel will then be under services… options… the ”other channels” press enter to view and enter to veiw channel… press backup three times to veiw…. mosyt of the time it will say ”this service is currently unavaliable” but look on the ITV website for seceduling as sepcial progs are on here like football, etc…
DanQuote
July 27th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
@Dan
This is a Freesat website, the emphasis is of course going to be on promoting ITV HD as a Freesat service!
adminQuote
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:34 pm
ITV-HD down to four programmes a week now one of which is a repeat (The Bill).
Call this a HD service?
Tony HalesQuote
August 5th, 2009 at 11:43 am
@Dan
how dare you promote Sky HD on a Freesat website. everyone here is a freesat fan including me. We no freesat is not perfect but it is still far better than Sky. Sky is just a rip off.
pgQuote
August 5th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
August 9th, 2009 at 1:24 am
I’ve been pressing the Red Button for ITV HD version of Blue Crush all evening but I just get sound – no HD picture!
Paul EatonQuote
August 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
X factor also in HD according to this website :-
http://www.xfactorcentral.net/news/site/factor-central.xfc
“We also know that the show will be shot in High Definition for the first time, airing on ITV HD for SkyHD, Virgin Media and FreeSat customers; that the show will now feature two live shows a week, one on Saturday and one on Sunday nights in a new prime slot; finally, we know that whilst the live shows are likely to stay at Fountain Studios, there will be an all new set, to replace the one used since series 4″
DaveQuote
August 10th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
If that’s true it’s AMAZING news for ITV HD, however I emailed ITV about this a week ago and they said they had no plans to show X Factor in HD.
Hope the customer service dept. at ITV is as clueless as usual
MartinQuote
August 12th, 2009 at 10:28 am
England vs Holland is in HD tonight too. Nice.
Bobby MQuote
August 12th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Reference pg. Eveyone has right to voice their opinions, I have both a Passion HD receiver and Sky HD, both are good picture quality but Sky have the choice. Let people have their views. Personally I was disappointed that ITV HD didn’t show the footy tonite when the adverts said they would-these are the sort of reasons why people have Sky HD-at least you are not let down with them!!!!
PhilQuote
August 12th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
@Phil
The football tonight was never intended to be on ITV HD, you might have been mis-informed somewhere like Bobby M may have done above.
adminQuote
August 12th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Yes, the adverts never said HD from what I was aware. It was neither listed here or on ITV.com. From next week, the Champions League is in HD, as listed.
MartinQuote
August 13th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Could I suggest that the submitted entries here be arranges so the most current is at the top of the page rather than having to trawl way down to the end to see the most recent entries. excellent forum.
Thanks
BammosanQuote
August 13th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
@Bammosan
It is a good suggestion, but a complexed one unfortunately. We hope to resolve this issue, or at least allow the reader the option when the site receives its re-design/development in the future.
adminQuote
August 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Hmmmm????
Was watching the rambo fisrt blood last night on freesat through my Humax pvr box.. and there was no red button for HD??
was this film not in HD then??
Did anyone else have this problem??
I rebooted the box to see if that was the problem but no ..still no red button??
cuppaTQuote
August 27th, 2009 at 9:18 am
re: First Blood. I Live in Ilford lost the HD feed after 20 mins into film, it reverted back to SD and it never came back! i have the Humax HD Box. with BBC HD & Luxe TV never had any issues so far only ITV seems to be affected. have had Humax box for 2 weeks now.
BGQuote
August 30th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Just noticed next Sunday’s schedule… non stop ITV1 HD basically, apart from the news, from late afternoon until midnight. A welcome taster of the ITV1 HD channel hopefully… and a look at what, hopefully, all the big channels will be like within a few years.
AndyboyQuote
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
@ Andyboy
Agree the schedule for Sunday is impressive for ITV HD (quantity wise anyway) – I just hope they can deliver it, in a decent picture quality.
samQuote
September 6th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Lewis not HD
Tony HalesQuote
September 6th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Catwoman not being trailed as HD either.
Richard CrichtonQuote
September 7th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Great, the only place I can find ITVHD schedule. Is it possible to extend it to include program end time of program run time?
Fred LawrinsonQuote
September 9th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I noticed too late that the schedule on my PVR to record ITV’s The Fixer had simply vanished. I didn’t delete it. It deleted it all by itself. I have noticed this before and it seams to coincide with a change to the program guide.
Has anyone else noticed recording schedules vanishing with ITV red button stuff? I suspect it does this when ITV change their minds about what is and is not HD. So when they change their EPG for a couple of hours or ‘reset’ the HD list it causes the recording schedule to vanish as the program at that time no longer existed.
Anyone else notice this?
TheDukeOfHunsletQuote
September 12th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
I AM NOT A MOANER’ WELL DONE ‘ ITV
loughlinQuote
September 13th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I NOTE THAT CASINO ROYALE IS ON NEXT SAT, WILL THIS BE IN HD, AN IDEAL OPPORTUNITY
HAROLDQuote
September 14th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Yep – got back from a weekend away and found that yet again my EPG for The Fixer to be recorded has vanished. Have set it AGAIN to record…
TheDukeOfHunsletQuote
September 15th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
@ HAROLD
If i remember correctly i read somewhere that SKY bought the rights to Bond in HD (as in all of them) so i dont think we will be getting that pleasure in the near future I am afraid although I cant recall if it was a duration exclusivity or a season, assume duration.
samQuote
September 16th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Dear Mr Duke,
Until the software update comes you are going to have to reset ITV HD programs to record after a channel update, lately there have been quite a few 8th, 10th, 15th. This will be fixed in the forthcoming update.
Robert LangdonQuote
September 28th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Why is there never any HD programming on a Monday? Is that when the man who knows how to operate the machine has a day off?
HallowayQuote
October 5th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Hi why cant i recieve Hd itv , i live in wales is it avaliable here thanks so much.
diffauk1Quote
October 5th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
diffauk1 I thought wales did have ITV HD. Try going to channel 977 and see if ITV HD works on there.
Paul DQuote
October 6th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Thanks for that paul , i didnt know i had to press the red button to highlight it , thanks m8 much appriciated
diffauk1Quote
October 10th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
What’s going on ITV? Again another let down. Where is Jurassic Park in HD?
This goes to show that the providers of the Freesat service have no interest in providing a service to us poor viewers. How do they expect people to buy into the format when they can’t be bothered to provide a reliable service for the poor showing they already give us!
RichardQuote
October 10th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
@Richard
No point blaming Freesat for this; the issue is with ITV, the broadcaster.
adminQuote
October 10th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
@admin
My first comment on this site…My presumption, as my Humax started to record the “ITV HD – This Service Is Not Available” screen image for unending minutes, & like Richard above, failed subsequently to provide any further parts of the movie in HD, would be that, perhaps, the rights to display the movie in HD had been denied to the broadcaster?
If I subscribed to conspiracy theories, one might even suspect that the previous rights holder (perhaps $ky?) had a fit of pique given lost revenues over an England football game that went to the web instead?
I can only wait to see what happens with “Lost World: Jurassic Park 2″ next weekend (also ITV HD)…
ChazzerQuote
October 10th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
@Admin
I am blaming ITV! It’s just that BBC and ITV are supposed to be the Freesat providers/founders. ITV seem to be doing very little to make Freesat work or keep people interested when they are the founders. What little HD programming they do give is not always broadcast or in part.
RichardQuote
October 11th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Hi guys what does the AD mean on my freesat reciever and also SD ..Yes and as for jurasic park , what a let down was looking forward to watch it in HD
diffauk1Quote
October 11th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Can we expect more failure to broadcast advertised ITV HD programs as we disappointingly experienced with Jurassic Park?
AlanQuote
October 13th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Can anyone answer my above question , many thanks .
diffauk1Quote
October 14th, 2009 at 10:56 am
AD = audio description. Nothing to do with SD or HD.
HallowayQuote
October 14th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Thankyou Halloway
diffauk1Quote
October 18th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I watched a little bit of ‘The Lost World’ last Saturday. Did anyone else get lip-synch problems on the HD version? It was in sync on SD but HD was way out. I’m presuming it was the transmission because I rarely get problems with sync on my Humax Foxsat HD.
hallowayQuote
October 18th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Checked the program guide for Star wars next SAT and although ITV say it will be HD it’s not flagged as HD on my Humax foxsat so can’t set it to record in HD. Anyone know whats wrong?
PhilLQuote
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:02 am
Saturday 24th October 2009 (4.10pm) Star Wars: Episode I:The Phantom Menace
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm????
No option also on my Humax box to record this in HD.. so Guess that their advert i just see with the HD icon on saying film is on saturday is just one BIG lie???
Come on itv what is happening with you guys….????
too many films in HD not in HD either it is or it isn’t ..but please dont lie about it!!!!
CuppaTQuote
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:30 am
Star Wars – not showing as HD according to my EPG either.
An absolute disgrace. Nothing more to say about ITV HD other then it is being run by a shower of s***heads.
TheDukeOfHunsletQuote
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Star Wars in HD…..this whole HD business is a complete joke….
BeginingtogetfedupwithfreesatQuote
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 am
ok guys i have emailed the itv services department and they have fixed the isue… you will now be able to set your pvr boxes as i have checked and now done this myself.
Here is what they had to say
Dear Mr White
Thank you for your email.
We have forwarded your observation to the technical team and can confirm that the matter has now been addressed.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
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ITV Viewer Services
CuppaTQuote
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Well done Cuppa T,
This must be the first time the Jigsaw (split prog) & the HD tag have been up together for an ITV HD program.
I have seen lots complain about it on Digital spy/Hummy but maybe no one told ITV .
Thanks and lets hope they carry on doing this in the future for split programs.
Robert LangdonQuote
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Yep – saw it last night and ammended my recording schedule.
Fingers crossed there’s no technical problems on the night.
TheDukeOfHunsletQuote
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Lets all keep our fingers crossed!!!!
or is that bad luck????
CuppaTQuote
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Yes…fingers crossed!
My Humax EPG also infers that the News Headlines separating the split halves of the movie is also in HD!
Is this possibly a trial for the forthcoming ITV1 HD, or are my expectations too high?
ChazzerQuote
October 23rd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
My Humax EPG is currently showing only the news headlines in HD and not Star Wars…..is anyone else experiencing this?
BeginingtogetfedupwithfreesatQuote
October 24th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Just watched beginning of Star Wars Ep. 1. This is HD??? Looks like an upscaled VHS tape to me…
hallowayQuote
October 26th, 2009 at 9:20 am
I also noted on EPG the new policy of HD news in between non-HD StarWars for next edition. Perhaps we are due for some really photogenic happenings…
MarcoQuote
October 31st, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Why does the schedule only list 1 week. Is something exiting happening after that?
Tony HalesQuote
November 1st, 2009 at 1:59 pm
thanks for the great updates , really appreciated,
keithQuote
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
The Official ITV HD and BBC HD guide is found here:
http://freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.HDschedule