FREEVIEW?

[Tooting Bec]

Have been watching the box the last couple of nights and they have been plugging freeview.
Does anyone know if
(a) it will run on existing set top boxes
(b) it will have multi viewing like the freeview in the uk and foxtel (where you can choose what game you want to watch by pushing the red button)
(c) and they have been saying 15 channels. Are these just rehashes of the existing channels in hd or will there be different viewing on each channel?

[magpie in the 80's]

this might help you

http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs/media/s2306264.htm

[BALLHOG]

Does anyone know how far away this is from happening?

[blink]

Does anyone know how far away this is from happening?

It is happening right now and has been for quite sometime. I think currently there are these stations operating on digital (both SD & HD):

ABC HD
ABC1
ABC2

TenHD
OneHD (new 24 hour sports channel - but currently showing the same as TenHD)
Ten Digital

SevenHD
Seven Digital 1
Seven Digital 2
Seven Digital 3

NineHD
Nine Digital

SBS HD
SBS1
SBS2

Right now, most of the channels from each station all show the same thing, with channels like SevenHD and NineHD throwing in some different programs now and then. TenHD currently shows NFL, NASCAR and some other US Sports in morning timeslots. ABC2 is really the only stand alone second channel by any station, with programs completely different. However, alot of the programs on ABC2 are just repeated ones that aired earlier on different days/timeslots on ABC1.

[heater31]

this might help you

http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs/media/s2306264.htm

also head here for the official website of the organisation

http://www.freeview.com.au/#

[heater31]

here is the media release announcing Ten's new sports channel ONE HD

ONE HD

Some of the sports include

AFL
Netball – ANZ Championship plus all Test matches
Commonwealth Games – 2010 in Delhi
Cricket – IPL
Formula 1 – all events
Moto GP – all events
NASCAR – Both Sprint Cup and Nationwide
Australian Rally Championship
National Football League (NFL) – three games per week live, plus playoffs and the Superbowl
Major League Baseball (MLB) – five games per week live, as for the NFL
National Basketball Association (NBA) – three games per week live
Golf – from the US, Asia, men's and womens.
U.S. College sports – American football and basketball
Tennis – 11 tournaments during 2009 both ATP and WTA
Swimming – a minimum 109 hours per year for the next eight years

Will also present expanded versions of Sports Tonight twice every evening, a new AFL Preview/review show during the season and similar for the other sports

Far out who needs fox sports now

[Dirko]

If they could get the rights for the Serie A, Primera Liga or Budesliga they'd be on a winner !

Continental Football, earlier viewing times and who wouldn't want to watch Juve, Inter, Barca
Bayern etc strut their stuff...

[Dutchy]

If they could get the rights for the Serie A, Primera Liga or Budesliga they'd be on a winner !

Continental Football, earlier viewing times and who wouldn't want to watch Juve, Inter, Barca
Bayern etc strut their stuff...

geez your hard to please jabber...thats a pretty impressive line up, love they are going to cover college sports also

[Pidge]

Having some football will just top it off. Something to watch Saturday Night / Sunday Morning would be great.

[Bully]

here is the media release announcing Ten's new sports channel ONE HD

ONE HD

Some of the sports include

AFL
Netball – ANZ Championship plus all Test matches
Commonwealth Games – 2010 in Delhi
Cricket – IPL
Formula 1 – all events
Moto GP – all events
NASCAR – Both Sprint Cup and Nationwide
Australian Rally Championship
National Football League (NFL) – three games per week live, plus playoffs and the Superbowl
Major League Baseball (MLB) – five games per week live, as for the NFL
National Basketball Association (NBA) – three games per week live
Golf – from the US, Asia, men's and womens.
U.S. College sports – American football and basketball
Tennis – 11 tournaments during 2009 both ATP and WTA
Swimming – a minimum 109 hours per year for the next eight years

Will also present expanded versions of Sports Tonight twice every evening, a new AFL Preview/review show during the season and similar for the other sports

Far out who needs fox sports now

as a NASCAR fan, channel ten will only get the Sprint Cup a week after its on, as Fox Sports have the contract for another few seasons to come yet. Nationwide is just the entry level really for the up and coming stars, so tends to be boring to watch that series. or tho the Sprint cup stars that race in it tend to dominate

[Sorry Dude]

Saw on my tv last night that the channels have changed in preperation for ONEHD which is due to begin early april. my mouth is watering

[Keefy]

So need to get out and buy a HD box now, apart from the fact of getting ONEHD, but also my SD box has started to crap itself. Nothing like it rebooting itself in the middle of show.

[Sorry Dude]

was going through my in tv guide last night and the date for ONEHD is March 26th.

[ubeauty]

was going through my in tv guide last night and the date for ONEHD is March 26th.

yeah flicked on the tv the other night and ONEHD loaded and they where briefly transmitting an NBL game, maybe just testing..........good to see it actually happening