Prime on freeview

[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

[spacemonkey]

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

[discotex]

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

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.