Prime on freeview

[Sam I Am]

August 16, 2009, 06:47:34 PM
We have official confirmation from Freeview that Prime will be available on Freeview and Freeview HD from tomorrow.

[AllanB]

About F ing time.

[p.dath]

Yehah! Althought the only program I really want is Top Gear!

[Metalor]

Can't wait.

[MacD]

About F ing time.

What he said!

Just checked after end of the MotoGP race and Prime is there now on the next channel after TV3+1 (9 I guess).

[YellowDog]

Thanks for the info.

I know there is a TV3 +1 added and some Aussie channel; but Prime is actually something I might watch.

[CookMySock]

Morons.. took their sweet time..

Steve

[RDjase]

August 16, 2009, 06:47:34 PM
We have official confirmation from Freeview that Prime will be available on Freeview and Freeview HD from tomorrow.

cool ! the tv companys must have kissed and made up:niceone:

[Owl]

Cool, I just went and found it and it looks great. We got shit reception with prime before.:D

[NighthawkNZ]

I just tune my standard TV to Prime, no sky, no freeview etc :chase:

[ckai]

The joys of working from home...just read this and was so excited and turned the TV on and re-scanned for channels

Booo-ya!

Top Gear Top Gear Top Gear:wari::banana::wari::banana:

Holy shit I'm sad if I was that stoked to get one show!!! F**k it. It's worth it. Haven't seen the bloody thing in a year since we've only had freeview.

[p.dath]

I just tune my standard TV to Prime, no sky, no freeview etc :chase:

You'll be fine for 2 or 3 more years - at which time the old analogue broadcast system is being turned off.
Then you'll have just static to look at. :)

[OnCam]

wicked! top gear in HD

[kiwifruit]

Cool, I just went and found it and it looks great. We got shit reception with prime before.:D

What channel?

[Owl]

What channel?

ATV Prime was channel 11 on our TV and DTV Prime seems to be channel 10.:niceone:

[bully]

whats the difference between tv3 and tv3+1 ?

[Owl]

whats the difference between tv3 and tv3+1 ?

TV3+1 is an hour behind TV3!:msn-wink:

[NighthawkNZ]

You'll be fine for 2 or 3 more years - at which time the old analogue broadcast system is being turned off.
Then you'll have just static to look at. :)

but I don't watch whats on it now... its all shit anyway... so wouldn't bother me...

[Genestho]

ATV Prime was channel 11 on our TV and DTV Prime seems to be channel 10.:niceone:
Yay! Cheers!!! Bout time! Now I can get rid of all analogue! Woot!

[cambridgedan]

this might be the wrong place to ask but here goes,
I just brought a freeview kit off trademe and have set it all up got the dish in the correct direction etc and all i get is no signal, any ideas? cheers

[MD]

Yehah! Althought the only program I really want is Top Gear!

Me too. Just heard about this. Did the re-scan tonight and bingo! Got Prime. All I wanted was Top Gear. Which is just as well becuse a quick check of what's on prime's weekly schedule and the test pattern looked like better viewing.

Do Prime show any Superbike or MotoGP?

[YellowDog]

this might be the wrong place to ask but here goes,
I just brought a freeview kit off trademe and have set it all up got the dish in the correct direction etc and all i get is no signal, any ideas? cheers
As well as pointing the dish in the right direction, you also need to get the Freeview box to lock onto the satelitte.

You cant scan for chanels until you have first hooked upto a transponder.

All the transponder codes you need are available on the net.

[merv]

I just got the Freeview terrestrial edition a few weeks ago after finally getting sick of having crap reception because my VHF and UHF aerials were kaput from storm damage. The picture is beautiful and as soon as I got home tonight I ran autoscan to get Prime loaded and it looks a bit better than the old reception.

[p.dath]

this might be the wrong place to ask but here goes,
I just brought a freeview kit off trademe and have set it all up got the dish in the correct direction etc and all i get is no signal, any ideas? cheers

More than likely the dish is not correctly aligned. What is the signal strength you are getting from the satellite? I'm guessing it is probably zero.

[p.dath]

One interesting thing I have noted about Prime. I have a Sony TV with a built in digital receiver.

If I flick up and down through the channels and I can not change to Prime. I can only select Prime from the guide.

Tried turning the TV off and back on again at the wall. No different. Something about Prime seems to be different to the other channels.

Weird.

[Owl]

One interesting thing I have noted about Prime. I have a Sony TV with a built in digital receiver.

If I flick up and down through the channels and I can not change to Prime. I can only select Prime from the guide.

Tried turning the TV off and back on again at the wall. No different. Something about Prime seems to be different to the other channels.

Weird.

Samsung with built in reciever here. Not having that issue and everything good.

[cambridgedan]

More than likely the dish is not correctly aligned. What is the signal strength you are getting from the satellite? I'm guessing it is probably zero.

yea zero is all we get

[p.dath]

yea zero is all we get

Assuming you have all the antenna cables connected up okay ... it can be pretty tricky to align the dish. Literally tapping it a few times can be enough to move it out of alignment (before you do up the bolts).

It's probably worth spending the small amount of money needed to get a professional out just to align it for you.

[discotex]

I'm on terrestrial with built-in tuner and it's all good (W series Sony Bravia). Took Sky long enough to cave in huh?

I'll now be able to end my unintended boycott of Prime. Was only a press of the "analogue" button away but without it in the guide you sorta forget about it.

[p.dath]

I'm on terrestrial with built-in tuner and it's all good (W series Sony Bravia). Took Sky long enough to cave in huh?

I'll now be able to end my unintended boycott of Prime. Was only a press of the "analogue" button away but without it in the guide you sorta forget about it.

Figure it out. Had to tell my Sony to do a scan of the digital channels again. I think because Prime was not allocated to a "button" (like 1, 2 or 9) it wasn't making it eligible for selection when pressing channel up and down.

Interesting enough, Prime does not seem to be transmitting in HD (at least nothing I have found yet). But I don't care about that too much. Just good to have them across.


Now if only Juice 2 would move as well ...

[nallac]

Thanks for the heads up...been waiting for ages for Prime to go free view.
It got a bit expensive keeping Sky basic just for prime.

[MOTOXXX]

awesome, about time

i run DVB-T through my 52" samsung built in freeview tuner (picked it up strait away)

had to rescan channels on mediaportal (i prefer mp over the tv tuner as i can pause, rewind tv and record multiple channels at once. the EPG is WAY BETTER in MP too

white n nerdy!

[oldguy]

Cheers guys, rescan bingo :niceone:

[spacemonkey]

Top Gear in high def....... That alone is reason enough to get it! :love:

[discotex]

Top Gear in high def....... That alone is reason enough to get it! :love:

They're not broadcasting anything in HD as far as I can tell. The Prime channel shows as 576/25 on my TV which I'm fairly sure is 576p with 25fps.

TV1/2 for example show as 720/50 and TV3/4 shows as 1080/25. That's always the same so I assume they upscale SD shows to the HD broadcast or something to that effect rather than changing the broadcast format.

In the case of Prime that would mean even if the show is 720p they'd have to downscale to fit the 576p broadcast.

That said the quality of it being in digital is enough to make it look closer to HD anyway.

[rphenix]

One interesting thing I have noted about Prime. I have a Sony TV with a built in digital receiver.

If I flick up and down through the channels and I can not change to Prime. I can only select Prime from the guide.

Tried turning the TV off and back on again at the wall. No different. Something about Prime seems to be different to the other channels.

Weird.

Check the channel setting isn't on skip.