Comments on: King Kong on ITV HD

By: David Village

David Village — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:27:57 +0000

If you live in the STV region and want to watch ITV HD add it as a non freesat channel. press menu and select settings in the frequency box type 10832 and scroll down to scan and press the right arrow button. Some may need to change the lnb polarisation Idid it on horizontal. This might also work in Northern Ireland let me know how you go on with it!

By: admin

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:11:55 +0000

@gsx 100

This has been common knowledge for a very long time now!

By: gsx 1100

gsx 1100 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:17:37 +0000

itv hd on your sky hd box
hi thought everybody knew but you can get itv hd on your standard sky hd box just google itv hd on a sky hd box and you will get easy clear instructions how to obtain this and it all works fine

By: Al

Al — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:10:41 +0000

Thanks for clarifying Nigel.

By: Nigel Whitfield

Nigel Whitfield — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:02:10 +0000

The video is still compressed with H.264 (aka AVC/MPEG4 Part 10), but it’s flagged as an H.222 (not H.262, which is MPEG2 compression) data stream.

H.222 isn’t a compression standard – it’s just a generic way of encoding a stream of data. But it’s not the way that data for live TV channels is normally encoded (that’s an MPEG Transport Stream, and I’m afraid I can’t remember the H number).

It’s the encapsulation and flagging that stops some receivers storing ITV HD – they don’t usually bother looking a H.222 streams when they’re storing channels.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:36:17 +0000

Steven – Freesat have not publically announced any figures to date, so any given will be best guess only.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:13:18 +0000

Thanks Nigel for your interesting and informative post.

You seem pretty well informed. You don’t happen to know what the approx figures are for the uptake of Freesat?

By: Al

Al — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:36:10 +0000

Nigel, I understood that ITV HD is using h.262 not h.264 compression and thats why Sky receivers can’t receive it. I also understood thats why ITV HD allegedly has a lower quality of picture than BBC HD, because the h.262 codec isn’t as efficient and has a lower bit rate.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:31:06 +0000

Yes the picture quality was excellent, but what’s the point of ITV broadcasting ‘blockbuster’ films in HD without 5.1 sound? Totally pointless!

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:28:12 +0000

Nigel – Thanks for that detailed explanation – I finally understand the whole thing now.