ITV launches into Asia

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The launch of a channel for the Asian market is a giant step for ITV as they try to expand into larger and more profitable regions.This will be primarily an entertainment channel which is going to be loosely based the Granada International middle eastern channel, UKTV.This has to be sensible move for ITV as they [...]

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[kerrywez]

They would be better getting their domestic service sorted out first. That bollocks with the football the other night is but one example of their inability to produce anything worth while.

Very best regards Wez

[merlodlliw]

Originally Posted by kerrywez

They would be better getting their domestic service sorted out first. That bollocks with the football the other night is but one example of their inability to produce anything worth while.

Very best regards Wez

What happened, was it HD.

Bob

[kerrywez]

HI Bob, it was supposed to be in HD, but there was a complete cockup, there was no invite to use the red button to go to HD and it was into the second half before the damn thing was sorted. The words ****up and brewery spring to mind. The picture on ITV HD is nothing near as good as that on the BBC. The BBC have a very good service, about 4 1/2 hours each night and then it is repeats all the way. Now that the fecking tennis has started, they have it in HD, you can see every blade of grass, suppose there will be little of that by the end of it, not that I shall be watching it.

Very best regrads Wez

[merlodlliw]

Originally Posted by kerrywez

HI Bob, it was supposed to be in HD, but there was a complete cockup, there was no invite to use the red button to go to HD and it was into the second half before the damn thing was sorted. The words ****up and brewery spring to mind. The picture on ITV HD is nothing near as good as that on the BBC. The BBC have a very good service, about 4 1/2 hours each night and then it is repeats all the way. Now that the fecking tennis has started, they have it in HD, you can see every blade of grass, suppose there will be little of that by the end of it, not that I shall be watching it.

Very best regrads Wez

Thanks for that Wes, I am not a tennis fan, I see for the first time RTE are not carrying the tennis, I have a copy of the Irish Times magazine
that was being given away at Tesco Wrexham on saturday,good tv paper.

We all wait for RTE int and then RTE HD.


Bob

[kerrywez]

Hope that you have a good load of patients Bob, it will be some time before there is a HD channel from RTE. They are still broadcasting signals in VHF and it is a pain, because the VHF ones are H polarised and the UHF are V, might be the other way round, but the result is that you really need two antennas for them. I have one in the bedroom, but the signal is very poor, as I can't get a signal from the nearest mast, because there is a hill in the way.

There is some chat, my friend who has the workshop for TVs and Sats, says that they will be doing a digital package soon and that Dublin will be on it very soon.

Very best regards Wez

[merlodlliw]

Originally Posted by kerrywez

Hope that you have a good load of patients Bob, it will be some time before there is a HD channel from RTE. They are still broadcasting signals in VHF and it is a pain, because the VHF ones are H polarised and the UHF are V, might be the other way round, but the result is that you really need two antennas for them. I have one in the bedroom, but the signal is very poor, as I can't get a signal from the nearest mast, because there is a hill in the way.

There is some chat, my friend who has the workshop for TVs and Sats, says that they will be doing a digital package soon and that Dublin will be on it very soon.

Very best regards Wez

Yes interesting, that is why all West Wales including Anglesey gets a good
picture from Kapure due to it being on VHF and only sea in the way, still a big sale for multi standard
sets in Wales to get RTE.


Bob