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(05-02-2024, 11:46 AM)Jimbo2022 Wrote: UPDATE
From today if you call 0330 123 1876 you get an automated message where you can leave a message and someone will call you back within 5 working days.
The phone number no longer appears on screen at all, not even the Sky numbers. The AD message has also changed omitting the phone numbers.
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This is the 9th different version if the closure slate. I do not see how they can keep this running for a further 6 or 7 weeks
I suspect this is the final version of the slate.
My prediction is this will continue to be up until March, when the original closure date was going to be before it was brought forward. I imagine the BBC has rented the transponder until the end of March, so no point really in not leaving it up until then. They’ve only had to update the slate because the telephone line is closing. The rest of it can stay up as long as possible.
I expect the BBC to then hand back the transponder and the whole process will have been completed, finally.
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(06-02-2024, 07:23 PM)interestednovice Wrote: I suspect this is the final version of the slate.
My prediction is this will continue to be up until March, when the original closure date was going to be before it was brought forward. I imagine the BBC has rented the transponder until the end of March, so no point really in not leaving it up until then. They’ve only had to update the slate because the telephone line is closing. The rest of it can stay up as long as possible.
I expect the BBC to then hand back the transponder and the whole process will have been completed, finally.
We will see. But it's taken the BBC 28 years in all to switch. It was in November 2005 BBC hd started. It ore-dated Sky hd which was march 6 2006.
But in those days hd had different schedules.
The first hd simulcast by BBC was for bbc1 I think, in 2010. So if you couldn't from there it has taken 13 years.
About time too
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Odd way to put it. It’s taken me 35 years to buy an air fryer, but it doesn’t mean I’ve been stood in Currys that long trying to get my card to work.
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(06-02-2024, 08:18 PM)Jimbo2022 Wrote: The first hd simulcast by BBC was for bbc1 I think, in 2010. So if you couldn't from there it has taken 13 years.
The main BBC HD channels all launched on 10 December 2013 on DSat. That certainly wasn't a delay of 13 years, just less than 3.
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Indeed, the BBC HD channel started as a trial before becoming a full service. The trial started on 15th of May 2006, the full service 1st of December 2007.
BBC One HD launched on the 3rd of November 2010, BBC HD became BBC Two HD on 26th March 2013.
All of the main BBC channels became available in HD on satellite on 10th December 2013.
So really about 3 years from the launch of BBC One HD (HD going “mainstream”, rather than a specialist service) until most BBC channels were in HD.
21st February 2023 was the completion of HD rollout as, by that date, every version of BBC One was regionalised in HD and every service (including Red Button & Parliament) broadcast in HD.
We are now experiencing a tidying-up exercise to move stragglers off SD.
The BBC have probably been planning all this for years, of course, which is why they will have chosen the transponder they have for Nightlight, probably because it’s lease is up first. They may even have been planning it as far back as agreeing the lease. They managed to complete the satellite migration especially in an extremely efficient way, in fact unprecedented.
So really to accuse them of being too slow is unfair, in my view.
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Yep, and the BBC in particular couldn't be seen to leave any viewers behind.
Don't forget 405-line transmissions weren't shut down until 1985!
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Good point!
Of course, the ultimate fallback of SD Freeview will probably remain for a while yet (possibly until the mid 2030s)!
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I apologize if it's already mentioned here but does anyone know if the BBC One HD feed (the England national version) is still on air or has it been replaced by the London feed after the Nightlight feed's shutdown? I don't have access to iPlayer in my region so I'm pretty curious...
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(11-02-2024, 03:04 PM)ALV Wrote: I apologize if it's already mentioned here but does anyone know if the BBC One HD feed (the England national version) is still on air or has it been replaced by the London feed after the Nightlight feed's shutdown? I don't have access to iPlayer in my region so I'm pretty curious...
There's a sustaining feed used internally. It uses the NC to pad out the regional news slots and BBC London during Breakfast.
It's also used to play out the Sunday 10am politics programme if a region is unable to play it themselves during maintenance work.
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(11-02-2024, 03:04 PM)ALV Wrote: I apologize if it's already mentioned here but does anyone know if the BBC One HD feed (the England national version) is still on air or has it been replaced by the London feed after the Nightlight feed's shutdown? I don't have access to iPlayer in my region so I'm pretty curious...
There's a generic 'sustaining' BBC One (well there's two, one England and one 'North') and I think there's still a BBC One HD version with a slightly different red caption to the one seen on satellite until last year. I think this is for one of the iplayer streams, although it might have stopped now