ITV HD - first impressions
Well, i've got the Humax Freesat HD box up and running at home, and Holland v Italy on the screen, via ITV HD.
And it's a big, big improvement over standard ITV - for picture and sound (though the latter is stereo only). I'm almost tempted to buy a box to round out my HD coverage, if Sky can't get ITV HD for some time....
However, the Humax box can't match the Sky HD box for BBC HD - there's a touch more digital noise, and generally proceedings aren't as pin-sharp.
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Did you have to press the red button then?
Well I would not get Freesat HD simply due to ITV' s strange commercial wisdom to make its Interactive HD Player (this would be a more suitable name rather than saying channel) exclusive to Freesat HD boxes so that their boxes can have a viable selling point. Sounds like the old ITV Digital saga. It is a joke.
It will be available to SKY HD boxes sooner or later and most probably after Euro 2008.
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P
Yes, red-button-pressing was involved. I didn't check last night - but will do as my test progresses - if they're serving different adverts on the HD 'channel' to regular ITV. I only wonder because there seemed to be a large amount of filmed-in-HD adverts.
wonder because there seemed to be a large amount of filmed-in-HD adverts.
Adverts in HD? what is the point in that? Are you sure they simply were not just upscaled their end Clare? I have noticed that every things on the HD channels on Sky is transmitted at 1080i but the TRUE HD content also has HD in the info box, Yet to notice anyone transmitting at 720P.
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Yes, the adverts are different - it's not regional for starters, and the airtime has to be sold separately, since it has fewer viewers. I doubt if they're being created in HD deliberately - a lot have been done in HD in the first place for a while (generalising).
Well, indeed - if you're someone like Ford or a big beer company (the Kronenbourg ad was one HD one that sticks in my head!) you're probably filming your big-budget commercials to be used globally (or at least potentially globally), so you know you've got HD TV audiences to please. Oh, and cinema audiences as well, of course 
Well if you;re filiming (as in using film), you're there already.
Well, indeed - if you're someone like Ford or a big beer company (the Kronenbourg ad was one HD one that sticks in my head!) you're probably filming your big-budget commercials to be used globally (or at least potentially globally), so you know you've got HD TV audiences to please. Oh, and cinema audiences as well, of course
I had not thought of that. I supose HD is not soo unusal now accross the board, even My new Camcorder is 1080P which would have been un-thinkible only a couple of years ago.
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even My new Camcorder is 1080P which would have been un-thinkible only a couple
of years ago.
Film is an HD medium.
There are those - mainly TV marketeers - who'll have you believe only 1080p is 'True HD'.
even My new Camcorder is 1080P which would have been un-thinkible only a couple
of years ago.
Film is an HD medium.
Hence my cinema comment 
Which he didn't appear to get 
(Sorry, can't stick out tongue and wink at the same time. As it were.)
(Sorry, can't stick out tongue and wink at the same time. As it were.)
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My point was about the adverts as doubt the too many companys actually use Film to shoot their ads rather than Video. Sure maybe Huge Multi-National companys do for ads used Worldwide, but I doubt the majority do.
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(Sorry, can't stick out tongue and wink at the same time. As it were.)
My point was about the adverts as doubt the too many companys actually use Film to shoot their ads rather than Video. Sure maybe Huge Multi-National companys do for ads used Worldwide, but I doubt the majority do.
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