Reply With QuoteOSIRUS (30-11-11)
Channel 74 TV4ME
G'day,
Just confirmed channel 7 is test transmitting channel 74 TV4ME. Another lame shopping channel. MPEG4 with AAC sound so older receivers won't pick it up. Apparently more tests tomorrow.
Cheers
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OSIRUS (30-11-11)
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we should sue the government or at least demand a buy back for all our old MPEG2 equipment that they told us we would need. Now they start fn MPEG4 transmissions!Originally Posted by TVguy
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Statistically, if you wait long enough, everything will happen!
Probably showing the same trash that's on Television 4 (Channel 64).
OSIRUS (30-11-11)
What area, WA? If so thats the channel we got about 2 months ago but for us on the East Coast (regional) it shows up as 64.
Part of the Prime/7 line up.
Now you too can have ALL the crap like us, aint yeeez lucky??
Last edited by gordon_s1942; 30-11-11 at 07:12 PM.
I stand unequivicably behind everything I say, I just dont ever remember saying it !!
Actually we should be really pissed off if they don't introduce MPEG4. MPEG2 is an old format whereas MPEG4 is a more highly compressed file that will carry almost twice as much data as MPEG2. MPEG4 is required for 3DTV.
Just about every HD set-top-box has both MPEG2 and MPEG4 formats. If you have an older TV buy yourself a $50 HD STB and the problem is solved. All HD TV's and Smart TV's are MPEG4 compatible.
Australia is one of the last countries in the world not to have adopted MPEG4 as the television broadcast standard. Video moving around the internet, IPADS, IPHONES ect all use MPEG4. The national broadband network will have video health services that will also use the MPEG4 format.
So that your TV can intergrate with the new NBN services it will have to be MPEG4 compatible. Once again a $50 HD STB (with a return path ethernet connection) will future proof you against the potential loss of any MPEG4 programming.
Personally I don't have any new or HD televisions. My youngest television (a 42 inch plasma) is already 5 years old. I went to Woolworths, of all places and bought a $49.99 Olin HD set-top-box (even has retrun path ethernet) and now I can get all the crappy free to air TV and shopping channels that are broadcast.
Pensioners and Veterans can get a free HD STB via the Home Assistance Scheme which is MPEG4 compatible.
Having said all this, who wants to watch a shopping channel anyway?
"the one with the sugar coating is the one that would otherwise taste worst".
So do you need a Mpeg4 H2.64 format STB for this channel? like viewing that 3D channel that is still on test a while back..
Help needed
I have a Grundig HD TV that is 2 months old. I am getting the sound on TV4ME but not the picture. I have re-tuned the whole TV & I have looked at every setting to see where I can enable MPEG-4 and can't see it. In the specs of my instruction guide, it says MPEG4/H.264 supported. If it is only supported, does this mean I need some sort of plug in?
The TV 'may' require a firmware upgrade, even though it's fairly new.
“There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary – and those who don’t”
Blimey, what a load of utter codswallop.
It the SHOPPING CHANNEL, 24/7 ADVERTISING, AD Finitum, AD Nauseum, AD's, AD's, AD's.
Techinically it may be something of a marvel but to the viewer its hours of AGGGGGGh Bra's and Turbo Cookers along with 1000 ways to work off or ON yer ABS,FLABS and dangly bits etc.
Regional viewers had this dumped on them several months ago so now its time to pollute the Metropolitan airwaves.
Whoever wrote that script deserves being forced to sit and watch that channel for a week.
After I saw the posting I checked and saw the watermarks have changed.
TV4 in one corner and 4ME in the opposite one.
Last edited by gordon_s1942; 02-12-11 at 08:34 AM.
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Unless you're an infomercial addict.... it's a waste of bandwidth.
I've seen much better VHS recordings than the PQ of that channel.
beerman (02-12-11)
MTV as I said before, Never mind the Bandwith, weigh the crap of the Content !!!!
I wouldnt mind betting those clips are filmed with a Super 8 Camera at the lowest possible cost in someones Garage.
I stand unequivicably behind everything I say
Yes you do. It is MPEG4.
"the one with the sugar coating is the one that would otherwise taste worst".
You may find that supported means that it will convert a MPEG4 HD format via the HDMI input (so if you plug a Blue Ray player into the HDMI socket). Likewise you could plug a HD (MPEG4) STB into the HDMI port and view MPEG4 content, just not in 1080i (true high definition).
It is common for TV's without MPEG4 to hear the sound but not see the picture. The solution - a $50 STB.
"the one with the sugar coating is the one that would otherwise taste worst".
This new offering sounds like a rebranded Expo from Optus C1!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them - Albert Einstein
This is all the crap the 7 network ran after midnight and throw in TVSN and Expo, stir and let stew.
Now all they have to do is inflict this onto the VAST viewers and their domination of the title 'CRAP TV of the Year' will be complete.
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Don't forget all those gut wrenching Ahh Bra & Aire Bra's infomericals. As you can tell from my avatar, I like boobies, but that crap is beyond watchable. Not to mention, those Guthy Renker's Weight-Lost infomericals.
Yep, all that crap and more is on Television 4!
This garbage is being listed now on the Yahoo TV guide for my area so check yours and see what you can manage to avoid.
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I quite enjoy the Scientology propaganda ads.
Sorry but not all are. Television 4 which is channel 64 from Prime Ballarat is
transmited in only mpeg2 and can be viewed on a standard Def pvr.
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