S4C to introduce red button English language

S4C is to provide English language commentary on selected sporting fixtures to supplement its main Welsh language broadcasts where rights allow, the channel has announced.

The new service will be available via the red button on S4C Digital on Sky, Freeview, Freesat and Virgin TV in Wales, and outside Wales on Sky and Freesat. The main [...]

July 16th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Channels | Comments are closed

ITV HD Interactive red button issue again Euro 2008 Russia v Spain

Again ITV have messed up with their interactive “press red for HD” on freesat channel 103 for HD compliant freesat set top boxes. The Euro 2008 semi-final Russia v Spain program started at 7:30 pm but the press red for HD banner in the top right hand corner was not available again, thankfully it was [...]

June 26th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: ITV HD, Technical | Comments are closed

BBC one & BBC HD lose live feed from Euro 2008 Germany v Turkey

The BBC lost their feed from Euro 2008 Germany v Turkey game tonight. The first outage happened at around 9pm on BBC one and BBC HD, BBC one viewers were treated to Radio 5 live radio audio commentary after a short while whereas BBC HD viewers were only presented with an continuity apology screen then [...]

June 25th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: BBC HD, Technical | Comments are closed

ITV HD Launch Day: not available in Northern Ireland or Scotland

ITV HD launches tonight with a simulcast of the Euro 2008 game Portugal vs Turkey as reported on June 3rd postings below, beware though if you wish to watch the ITV HD broadcast and live in Northern Ireland or Scotland you will need to put in an English or Welsh post code as UTV and [...]

June 7th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: ITV HD, Technical | Comments are closed

ITV HD launches for Euro 2008

ITV HD confirm Champions League, FA Cup and England
Internationals in HD, in a press release today ITV HD confirmed coverage through 2008 will encompass an unrivalled range of free-to-air premium football including the new season of UEFA Champions League, The FA Cup, and England internationals – followed later by selected ITV dramas and acquired programming.

ITV [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Channels, General, ITV HD | Comments are closed

Euro 2008 starts Saturday 7th June BBC live games to be shown in HD (High Definition)

With the 2008 Football European Championship nearly on us, early listings for BBC HD have allocated the same time frames as the SD (Standard Definition) broadcast on BBC HD channel (108) we will update when we get the full schedule released.

It will be interesting to see if ITV HD (which has not officially launched yet [...]

May 31st, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: BBC HD, General | Comments are closed

ITV HD Champions League Final live feed on Humax Foxsat

It was reported earlier that ITV were testing their HD channel tonight and it was viewable via pressing secret code on the Humax Foxsat only during the Champions League Final. The code was RED, RED,GREEN,GREEN,BLUE.

Since the program has finished the code seems no longer to work, this could be due to no HD program being [...]

May 21st, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Channels, General, ITV HD | Comments are closed