Ten to launch high definition channel Ten HD
Network Ten is set to follow the lead of Channel Nine and launch its own high definition simulcast, Ten HD, from March 2.
The new channel will be on Channel 13 and has been timed to launch to coincide the V8 Supercars racing, with the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide on from Friday 4 March to Sunday 6 March and then the 2016 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne which will be on from Friday 18 March to Sunday 20 March.
Network Ten CEO Paul Anderson, said in a statement: “Nothing beats watching HD on the big screen at home and we are excited to showcase our sporting and general entertainment content in the highest possible quality.
“There has been a clear, growing demand from our audiences for HD and I’m delighted that recent changes to legislation have allowed us to bring all the excitement of HD to Ten for the first time.”
Nine’s HD channel was Gem not Go!
Thanks Tim,
That’s updated now.
Cheers,
Alex – editor, Mumbrella
When are the FTA networks going to stop perpetuating the outright lie that government legislation prevented them from airing an HD simulcast along their SD channel?
The legislation lets them switch their SD channel off entirely, which no one is doing.
They’ve been able to keep SD as the ‘primary channel’ and simulcast in HD since day 1 — which is exactly what they did every day for almost 8 years before they turned it into a TenHD breakaway and then OneHD?
Ahh HD Television. Welcome back to 2008-2010.
How we missed you. Luckily since then we’ve got Netflix, Stan and finally even Presto in HD.
Presto isn’t in HD on web browsers like Stan and Netflix is.
FTA stations had the ability to broadcast HD as far back as the 2007 NRL and AFL Grand Finals. The fact that it has taken this long for all stations to do it speaks at how FTA has treated its viewing audience with contempt.
TEN on ch 10.
ONE on ch 1 HD change to SD.
TEN HD on ch 13.
ONE on ch 12 possible change new name of new tv programs??
Last to the HD race, welcome to 2016 Ten.
What ever happened to the 3D broactasting?
wIll they bring that back?
Quotes from TEN:
“MPEG 4 is a newer form of compression which enables Network Ten to deliver high quality
HD content efficiently and ** within our existing broadcast spectrum** ”
“Will ONE remain in HD? ** No. It will become a standard definition channel, **
** We don’t have the spectrum capacity to keep ONE in HD as well. ** ” Keh?
“Will the sport now seen in HD on ONE now switch to TEN HD? ** No. ** ”
The above statements from TEN are confusing and contradictory.
1. MPEG4 allows existing spectrum to “pack in” the new HD, but, oh, we don’t have the spectrum capacity to keep ONE in HD. Keh?
2. All TEN is doing is swapping ONE from HD to SD, and allowing current TEN SD to broadcast in HD.
So all that is happening is some programs currently broadcast in SD will be in HD, and vice versa.
What a waste of effort and spectrum.
3. But also some viewers will now lose all HD programs.
ONE becomes SD only, and most Personal Video Recorders are not MPEG4 compatible so they can’t show TEN HD.
So many viewers actually lose a lot of useful HD viewing (not status quo as TEN claims). I.e. TEN’s “We are adding an HD service” is not really correct in practice since they are shutting down much HD.
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What about us regional viewers, now everything will only be in sd that will truly suck!!!
If the new channel 13 was to be launched today, why hasn’t it?