The principles of this were very soft launched at the Olympics and saved about 1/5 of the cost of DSAT emission bill.īut they also launched connected red button which is emitted platform agnostic, cheap for low viewership and scalable to as many streams as you are likely to have at any one time.

The BBC trust pointed out that rb services cost a lot more to broadcast than the content costĪnd thus were unlikely to meet a PVT. With the winter Olympics coming, that will only leave them with three channels (one of the BBC's, 301sd and 301hd) unless they can buy/borrow/hire some more. With the more popular programme being shown on the HD red button channel.Ĭonsidering we once had 6 (or more?) interactive channels on freesat this seems to be the BBC downgrading it's presence. It could be more helpful by, when you click an event, it countsdown to when it should start, so you know you're in the right place.

Personally I thought the hockey looked better on the webstream (HD?) than it did on 301SD so even if they show all the Olympic sports via the web, it's not such a great loss.īut their sport website > I find it really difficult to navigate. With the winter Olympics coming, that will only leave them with three channels (one of the BBC's, 301sd and 301hd) unless they can buy/borrow/hire some more? I'm confused by the red button and what's written above - I take it 302 now doesn't exist (as such) so the BBC simply has 2 red-button channels, 301SD and 301HD and can show two separate events on each?Ĭonsidering we once had 6 (or more?) interactive channels on freesat this seems to be the BBC downgrading it's presence. Final Score was on 301HD and the hockey was on 301SD.Īrguably it should have been the other way round but then again not everyone has access to HD so they would have missed the hockey.

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