Comments on: What’s happened to HD?

By: Sephiroth_FF

Sephiroth_FF — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:49:16 +0000

Why don’t they put on some movies? It’s bad enough that they just “stop” series for no particular reason but then they replace them with nothing. How cheap. There are millions upon millions of movies out there. Show some! And I’m not talking Bridget Jones or Liar Liar. The are countless movies that have never been shown on TV before.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:37:33 +0000

If they put every show they axed on a separate channel they would need 5 extra each.

By: Ellis

Ellis — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:04:30 +0000

Thanks Kirben for the heads up! Look forward to watching it!!!

Oh and Chris, couldn’t agree with you more! Nothing should be “axed”, instead, simply moved to the HD channels for alternative programming

By: tassie_gal

tassie_gal — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:06:26 +0000

Well all of this is a moot point for use on the little island. I have a HD set-top box and a HD TV yet most of the time I get test patterns/loops. I really wish ppl would pull their fingers out and actually acknowledge that 1. we are a state and 2. we have as much right to decent programming as the mainland.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:18:45 +0000

Here’s an idea. Instead of axing stuff, you could shift it onto a HD channel! That would be too bad for all the non-HD-viewing-audience, but hopefully Freeview will alleviate that.

By: tommyk

tommyk — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:48:06 +0000

i’m with jerome and lee123, i can’t stand when a show i like is not in HD. i’d say no different shows at all.

i can understand if the networks do not want to put anything too good on, so many people would miss out and should not have to pay

but bring on 2nd SD channels, that should be all new shows. if you are right belinda i would be sooooo dissapointed

By: Paull

Paull — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:15:05 +0000

Channel One will have One HD and Channel 12 will have One SD when Ten launches the new channel around april-may next year.

As for the other networks, im wonering what they’ll do. Hopefully they put something useful on their other channel.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:42:51 +0000

Well that’s lame. I was just starting to enjoy HD shows on Ten with my new tv! What are they thinking??

By: freddy

freddy — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:33:07 +0000

Look at what CH 7 are doing tonight.
Movie – Braveheart on SD
Show – This is your laugh on HD

Is this a glimpse of things to come?
Movies on SD and rubbish on HD

By: Daniel G

Daniel G — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:02:07 +0000

Ben: Ten has only one HD channel, but two Logical Channel Numbers (LCNs) for it. Choosing channel 1 or 12 will point to the same HD channel ’stream’.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:51:46 +0000

Ten already has 2 HD channels. 1 and 12, I assume 12 will stay as it is now and 1 will be One HD.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:36:02 +0000

I have heard that 9’s second SD channel will just be a time shifted version of their main channel. Yawn.

By: tomothy

tomothy — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:12:54 +0000

Come 2009 all the HD Channels should be a similcast of the Orginal SD Channel. That way people who spent thousands on HDTVs, PVRs, can Foxtel IQ2, can actually gain something from it.

OneHD is pointless. The sport should be on an SD channel between Midnight and Midday. Then from Midday to Midnight, it should be all the shows that TEN think are not good enough for the main channel. We should be seeing, Monk Season 6,7,8, Psych Season 2,3, Smallville Season 8, and then repeat the News at 6pm-7pm, and repeat Neighbours at 10:30pm, and as they do on TenHD at the moment, show catch-ups on weekends, I blind monkey could have seen this is a much better way to use the additonal channel.

Someone noted earlier that Smallville has been onsold to Foxtel. Well, if that is the case, then only a small percentage of the population can view it, plus Fox8 is currently airing season 5 I believe. It is going to be a long wait till people can see season 8.

I think Nine will be last to launch their new SD channel. Based on the poor standard of programming on their main channel, I see it being pretty lame.

From April, at least I can remove OneHD and OneSD from my channel listing, so I can flick faster between channels I actually want to watch.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:45:33 +0000

We still don’t get 10 HD here and with the new ONE simulcast on the 2nd SD I guess it doesn’t matter come March, unless we don’t get that as well?

While I think Freeview is a joke, designed to sell hardware I do hope it brings more content but again how can they compete with PayTV?

By: lee123

lee123 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:18:09 +0000

i’m not going to complain, i think a 9,7,10HD should be exactly that, a HD version of 7, 9, and 10.

when 2nd SD channels come out then i will expect new shows.

P.S. does anyone know what 9 has planned for their 2nd SD. 10 has sport, 7 has heaps of shows in the cupboard/summer shows that don’t rate well enough for ratings, but 9?
all the shows i thought they were going to air they sold to foxtel or they have ruined it too much to ever see the light of day. i’m assuming they will fill it with more repeats.

By: avoidz

avoidz — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:23:33 +0000

After all the hype, digital TV is almost a complete waste of time in this country. Better picture quality is about the only positive aspect to it, otherwise where’s all this extra content? The way it’s going, the FTA channels may as well shut down their HD channels completely – with nothing on them, why bother? I’m glad I only bought an SD box for my TV.