ITV3+1, ITV4+1 now full service

[EEPhil]

Just noticed that ITV2+1 has moved to D3&4 and is now h264/MPEG-4. Also on that multiplex is ITV4+1 which appears to be a full service (also h264/MPEG-4). Meanwhile, back on SDN, ITV3+1 is still MPEG-2 but could be a full service.

 

[Owen Smith]

Just noticed that ITV2+1 has moved to D3&4 and is now h264/MPEG-4. Also on that multiplex is ITV4+1 which appears to be a full service (also h264/MPEG-4). Meanwhile, back on SDN, ITV3+1 is still MPEG-2 but could be a full service.

What do you mean by "a full service" in this context?

 

[EEPhil]

It's running now and appears in the EPG with the relevant channel +1 programmes. Not just a couple of hours around 4am for shopping. No longer an LCN hog.
Or, in simpler terms, as ITV1+1, ITV2+1., Film4+1, C4+1, 5+1, DaveJaVu...

 

[Owen Smith]

It's running now and appears in the EPG with the relevant channel +1 programmes. Not just a couple of hours around 4am for shopping. No longer an LCN hog.
Or, in simpler terms, as ITV1+1, ITV2+1., Film4+1, C4+1, 5+1, DaveJaVu...

Clearly I'm being thick, I still don't understand. Are you saying they were internet stream channels previously, or what? Of course they appear in the EPG, all channels do.

 

[EEPhil]

Itv3+1 and itv4+1 were placeholders. Data channels for about 22 hours a day with a static caption - no idea whether they linked to a stream or not. Two hours, around 4am I think, was shopping. Now they are currently running a +1 version of the channel. (You may need a rescan).

 

[prpr]

So this is the first time that we've had MPEG-4 H.264 on a DVB-T mux. and folks still with MPEG-2 only kit won't be able to decode them (really, I wonder how few there are now):

Service  8345 TV SD H.264  "ITV2+1"
Service  8347 TV SD H.264  "ITV4+1"
Service  8462 TV SD H.264  "E4 Extra"
Service  8464 TV SD H.264  "Film4+1"

I wonder where they've nicked the bandwidth from to add all those?

The page at https://www.freeview.co.uk/help/updates-alerts/channel-updates-16-september-2026 is so woefully incomplete, but what do we expect from the incompetent idiots that run that...