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It has been confirmed today that Portugal’s Euro 2008 game against Turkey will be the first publically available HD broadcast from the new ITV HD service.
To access the HD channel, you need to press the ‘red’ button during the SD broadcast on ITV1 (channel 103). ITV HD will not be available on Freeview, Virgin or Sky.
It has also been confirmed that in addition to Portugals game on Saturday 7th (7.30pm), that games on Monday thro Friday of the following week will also be available in HD.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
COOL about time now we need f1 in HD
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
100% agree with you there
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
do we know what else will we see in hd F1 l hope
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Excellent start for ITV HD, look forward to much more HD material, I think they need to advertise this more as well.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
lib Says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
do we know what else will we see in hd F1 l hope
LIB I certainly hope so, I would think that the Silverstone race will be likely.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:23 am
(Portugal v Turkey) Saturday 7th June on ITV 1 from 7:15pm to 10:00pm.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Hopefully their transmissions will have a high enough bitrate, otherwise their HD broadcasts will be pretty much pointless.
Their SD broadcasts look terrible compared to BBC’s.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:42 am
I think the BBC should also go down the red button route. There’s no point repeating old programmes over and over. As for F1, I dont think you will see it in HD until the Beeb get the rights next year.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I would like to think the BBC’s HD material will increase rapidly, so the repeats will decrease over time. I’m getting the Freesat PVR on launch, so will be happy to watch all the BBC HD material straight away.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am
If it was me ild be screaming this from the rafters, adverts the lot, Freesats PR company is inept they will keep it a closely guarded secret as long as possible. the pull of HD football is massive just ask sky. How many new hd telly’s we sold when the world cup was on. If they miss this opportunity we will all know why ITV is going to the dogs.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
How will red-button HD programs be recorded on the PVR units (when they’re released)? Will it only be possible to program an HD recording in advance if it’s on a separate channel?
June 4th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Seems the BBC are showing the football in HD too checking the schedule for next week - shame they’re not covering Queens Club tennis in HD too tho
oh well can’t have everything lol - it does seem they’re slowly increasing what’s available though - unless I’m mistaken shows like Gavin and Stacey weren’t on there last time I checked.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/search/daylist.cgi?service_id=2075&DAY=today
June 4th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
DOn’t quite understand the ‘red button’ system.
Does this mean that ITV HD is not transmitted on a separate channel?
Can you receiive it via a manual tune on an FTA HD box ?
June 4th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
ITV HD Content
Some of the footy that was on ITV HD previously has screen grabs on this flickr page. You can see HD and upscaled grabs in the ITV HD sections. They look good.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/freesathd/
June 5th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Does Freesat have a “RED” button? I have been trying to watch the French Open but the “Press i” button does not have BBC i.
I can get it on the Sky box OK.
June 6th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Hi Anne, that’s a very good point. I’ve just checked and no, the freesat version has no way of accessing the extra content (as far as I can see). The freeview / sky versions of the menu you get when you hit the RED button on BBC give you an extra content menu (in this case tennis/cricket).
On my freeview set I can select channels 301/302 manually and see the content but even after a ‘non-freesat’ search on the Humax box I can see no direct channel or any other way of getting to it.
Surely the BBC will add access to this content on freesat eventually as it’s already available on sky and I’d have to say it’s a very important part of the interactive service.
June 6th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Sorry just to clarify the above - my freesat (Humax HD box) does have the RED button feature available on the BBC but it just doesn’t seem to carry the extra content that the freeview/sky version has.
June 7th, 2008 at 6:20 am
itvhd not available in scotland or northen ireland http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?p…estion&id=2588
June 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
ITV HD is availabe to anyone within the footprint of the Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.2′E (28.5′E). This includes most of Europe, North Africa and even parts of Greenland, asuming you have a big enough dish.
Eurobird 1 is one of five satellites that are all at the same position in the sky so your dish knows no difference. According to data a dish of 50cm is good enough for the most northern tip of Scotland.
In practice there is no knowing what the signal will be like and will vary the further away from the ‘centre/strongest’ of the transmission footprint.
Take a look here . .
http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/eb1_fixed.html
Good luck . .
June 7th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Sorry . . For Greenland read Iceland.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Nice to see ITV HD for the first time tonight on useing my Humax HD box. I hope other programs will soon follow. Not a footy fan, but I watched it.I do hope F1 will be shown.