General whine- feel free to ignore...

[Steve Green]

There's a combination of two problems with Digital TV, reception which can lead to the picture freezing or partially updating, and shit picture quality on certain programmes.

On Freeview, the former is less of a problem since they've boosted the signal, but the latter you're at the mercy of the broadcasters.

It's a shame, since it could be a lot better if they weren't going the quantity over quality route.

The way it works is that a group of channels share the same space, so if another channel is added within that space, it would degrade the picture from the others.

It seems to have bottomed out though, any new channels that are being added are usually replacing unpopular ones.

Five are adding two channels, that they've acquired from Top-up TV, FilmFour starts in July replacing More4+1.

Still doesn't make the footy look any better though...

Cheers

Steve

[scutfink]

FilmFour is going Freeview?

That could be good...

[Steve Green]

Yep,

I'm not sure when in July it's going to appear.

It's showing up in the list of channels on my box, but it's just a placeholder at the moment.

I think the space is being used by one of the interactive streams for Big Brother, so that will get booted off and replaced by FF.



Cheers

- Steve