What rubbish ITV is. Here I am working hard all week to pay through the nose for big screen HD TV and ITV are broadcasting one of the World's greatest sporting events in low definition blurro-vision. Utter crap. I could understand it if we were in a NIC or in the land of cheap VT that is the USA, but no we are here in the UK, one of the richest most technologically advanced nations in Western Europe. Do they seriously think this is good enough? Michael, it is not acceptable.
Whilst doing this, ITV have three other digital channels that are busy showing repeats of Judge Judy, Dempsey & Makepeace and The Saint. If I want to watch outdated crap on tele there are literally hundreds of digital channels dedicated to broadcasting utter tosh. ITV does not have to be one (or four) of them. Michael, please, shut down all of the existing ITV channels, none of them are worth a light; invest all your money in having one decent channel broadcasting quality programmes via quality technology. I know that with the unemployment figures going up again today it must be tempting to stick with your business model of broadcasting wall to wall Jeremy Kyle to unemployable chavs, but it's nothing to be proud of is it? Why not change course and aim to do something that you can look back on in your red-socked retirement and say, yes I did a good thing there.
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I thought Galdiators was on Sky ?
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I disagree about getting rid of all the other ITV channels though, they can put all that crap, plus Kyle etc on them, along with the repeats, and have one quality channel made to show programmes for people with an IQ above 80.
not a hope of seeing them repeat the likes of prospects , scully , the manageress , no problems , white teeth and lipstick on my collar to name just a few .
Anyone know if these are on the 4OD thing on the net? as I have mac I dont have the ability to watch
It's bandwidth then. They squeeze as much as they can out of their bandwidth - All the regions, ITV2,3 & $ plus CITV in the same space that the BBC uses for three channels (I believe). Quality is better on Freeview/sat. If you're lucky enough to have both (Sky/Freeview) always watch ITV on Freeview - much better picture.
Murdoch want's megabucks to carry the HD channel on Sky that's why it's only on Freesat for now. Virgin media seem to think that one HD channel is sufficient. It's all a bloody mess to be honest. One company has a monopoly hence why it's so restrictive.
If anyone out there is thinking of getting Sky HD, I'd advise to hold your horses. The picture quality is great, but at the moment there's just not enough decent content to justify Sky's exhorbitant fees. I realise that I'm shooting myself in the foot by saying this, because the more people that have it the more chance of getting the programming, but I wouldn't want anyone else to be disappointed like I am. What they don't tell you until the man comes round to install is that half of the programmes they broadcast in the HD channels aren't HD anyway. Can we change the name of this thread to, Rupert Murdoch get your finger out?
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