can you receive BBC HD?

[brewston]

Originally Posted by fac13

If only.

It's 145.50 UKP p.a. and you have to pay it whether or not you watch any BBC output.

No adverts though

[fac13]

Originally Posted by brewston

No adverts though

Yes, no need for comskip for the BBC channels.

I don't think most British people resent the cost of the BBC, but it certainly isn't cheap.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by fac13

If only.

It's 145.50 UKP p.a. and you have to pay it whether or not you watch any BBC output.

Edit: But you can still get a Black & White licence for just 49 UKP if you only have mono equipment!

and BBC is largely commercial free?

[brewston]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

and BBC is largely commercial free?

Totally commercial free (Unless you count those segments for one of their upcoming shows)

[wayner]

Is this poll meant for Americans as the answer will very greatly depending on the country that you live in. And BBC, at least BBC Canada, is not in HD on Rogers cable, nor are BBC News or BBC Kids.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by wayner

Is this poll meant for Americans as the answer will very greatly depending on the country that you live in. And BBC, at least BBC Canada, is not in HD on Rogers cable, nor are BBC News or BBC Kids.

Yes, I should have specified North America, since most of us who don't get it here would really like it. Amazingly, not as many people answer the question as I had hoped. My cable company would look at the response here and say: "14 people? We're not changing anything for 14 people"

[texneus]

As long as BBC (America) presumes we are so stupid as to not know what we're watching and display advertising continuously while shows are playing, I don't give a darn one iota. I already put up with pompous station logos gratuitously displayed every where else, and that's where I draw the line.

(but that's just me )

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by texneus

As long as BBC (America) presumes we are so stupid as to not know what we're watching and display advertising continuously while shows are playing, I don't give a darn one iota. I already put up with pompous station logos gratuitously displayed every where else, and that's where I draw the line.

(but that's just me )

yeah, that is tiresome

[tvmaster2]

Just got a response from a Cox employee (?) over at AVS... who claims there are far more requests for Hallmark Channel than for BBC HD.
Guess that just about sums it up.
Stay tuned for the new channel, Snooki and Sarah.
sigh

[Zippster]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

Just got a response from a Cox employee (?) over at AVS... who claims there are far more requests for Hallmark Channel than for BBC HD.
Guess that just about sums it up.
Stay tuned for the new channel, Snooki and Sarah.
sigh

More for Hallmark? lol

As far as Snooki etc, that goes in the "whats wrong with tv nowadays" thread....

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by Zippster

More for Hallmark? lol

As far as Snooki etc, that goes in the "whats wrong with tv nowadays" thread....

and with 541 views, only 31 people cast a vote on this poll.
that won't help my argument to show that people WANT BBC HD.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

in reality, what's wrong with TV is the people watching it. If we request better programming, they will supply it.
If we do not, they will supply Snooki, as it is cheap.
I started a poll for BBC HD - 550 people looked at the poll - only 30 answered it.

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

and with 541 views, only 31 people cast a vote on this poll.
that won't help my argument to show that people WANT BBC HD.

You shouldn't feel bad about forum poll results. There are at least a couple common fallacies in your comments about this poll:

1. Views equals # of people reading: The number of views of a forum topic does not indicate how many people actually viewed it; all it indicates is the number of times the topic was viewed. Maybe only the 30 people answering it viewed the topic multiple times. Or, more likely, slightly more than 30 people + search engine bots all loaded it multiple times. Or, maybe most people looked at it once and someone held down the refresh button while viewing the topic and drastically increased the view count.
   
   
2. Forum polls have meaning: Polls on forums have very little meaning because they only count the people who happen to read the question and feel like answering. For the fun of it one time, I included an option something along the lines of "I don't read poll questions and don't answer them." That one got at least 1 vote. Polls can be manipulated too, so if it would make you feel better, I could edit the results to make one answer win by a large margin. Vote early & vote often. If that doesn't work, change the final tally by learning to count selectively.

- Andy

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by Opus4

You shouldn't feel bad about forum poll results. There are at least a couple common fallacies in your comments about this poll:

1. Views equals # of people reading: The number of views of a forum topic does not indicate how many people actually viewed it; all it indicates is the number of times the topic was viewed. Maybe only the 30 people answering it viewed the topic multiple times. Or, more likely, slightly more than 30 people + search engine bots all loaded it multiple times. Or, maybe most people looked at it once and someone held down the refresh button while viewing the topic and drastically increased the view count.
   
   
2. Forum polls have meaning: Polls on forums have very little meaning because they only count the people who happen to read the question and feel like answering. For the fun of it one time, I included an option something along the lines of "I don't read poll questions and don't answer them." That one got at least 1 vote. Polls can be manipulated too, so if it would make you feel better, I could edit the results to make one answer win by a large margin. Vote early & vote often. If that doesn't work, change the final tally by learning to count selectively.

- Andy

The only fallacy is that I expected more people to think this was a channel worth receiving. But when an employee of my cable company says that there is very little request for this channel, then that seems to line up with the number of responses here. People tend to comment on something they feel strongly about, whether it's commenting on a poll or helping users solve problems. I was hoping for a higher number, but the reality is that this particular channel is obviously a niche that isn't likely to be filled in my region, at least not at the moment. The poll numbers actually pan out.
Maybe if Steve Jobs can get hold of cable channel organization, it may be possible to one day pick and choose the channels we like the best, instead of buying the whole album. wouldn't that be grand?

Wait for my next poll on surrround sound . . .

[Skirge01]

I've found that the only way to get a big entity to take notice is to get lots of their customers to contact them. (Very much like politics, sadly!) I contacted DirecTV about one or two channels not being in HD and they nicely said they would forward my comments to the people making decisions about which channels to add next. Those channels actually did get added shortly thereafter, so I can only hope that my email provided additional support for its addition.

To sum up, you and anyone else you know who subscribes to Cox should call and let them know you want it. It definitely wouldn't hurt.

[ldw58]

I've been a DirecTV sub (HD23 hooked up via HD-PVR to SageTV) for 13 years with four HD DVR boxes and a premium content subscription.

I feel as though they're writing me off because HBO Family (which I do pay for) and HD football (which I do not) are their priorities.

I've written a few times to DirecTV this year about lack of BBCA-HD and both times I received emails that were clearly cut'n'paste from corporate marketing blurbs.

Here was the first response from January:

"While we don't have plans to add BBC America and the American Movie Classics (AMC) Channel in HD at this time, we're working to bring you even more HD channels in the near future. Stay tuned to directv.com/hd to keep up with the latest HD news."

IMO worthless. I felt totally irrelevant to them when I read this response.

Here's the second response from a few weeks ago:

"Furthermore, we don't have any news about upcoming HD channels today but you can expect more information about new HD channels when our newest satellite is fully operational later this year. You can find the latest news and programming information at http://directv.com/tunein."

The only value of the second response to me was that at least they are not insulting my personal taste in channels while they make other content available.

[tvmaster2]

PPV and sports packages are the priority with ALL providers, as well as extreme niche channels (Z=Indian, Chinese, Korean etc), since those can fetch up to $17 a month for a single channel.
Just like you, I receive a "corporate" response evertime I ask.
I am starting to miss terrestrial already

[Whitey]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

PPV and sports packages are the priority with ALL providers, as well as extreme niche channels (Z=Indian, Chinese, Korean etc), since those can fetch up to $17 a month for a single channel.
Just like you, I receive a "corporate" response evertime I ask.
I am starting to miss terrestrial already

If you really want BBC HD that bad why don't you move to the UK?

Whitey

[Skirge01]

I think it'd be slightly cheaper to just get a foreign IP address and then stream directly from the BBC website.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by Whitey

If you really want BBC HD that bad why don't you move to the UK?

Whitey

sigh

[mistergq]

I have been waiting for BBCA HD for almost 2 years now (I think BBCA was released in 2009 as HD). To date, FIOS keeps adding other HD channels, but not BBCA HD. I have a corporate Fios at work and residential fios at home. It turns out that BBCA SD is one of the top channels in the corporate environments throughout the US. But my lineup is identical at work is same as the home and BBCA is only available in SD in the commercial.

I don't know what it will take to get it through to cable/fios/satellite providers to get this through.