Its been round a little while now...so what are your thoughts on each of the HD Channels?

I must say I'm am disappointed with Nine so far, but loving TEN, particularly for their Sci-Fi Thursday nights. SEVEN seems to be making a go of it to some degree (especially with something like Supermodel). ABC & SBS both have a few interesting things on at times.

IMO - still a long way to go until they're true alternatives, but still I love the extra choice.

Yeah, there's still a while to go until the HD channels get up and running properly. I think 10 is leading on the alternative programming side of things. But yeah... we shall see.

I can still only get 7HD

Can anyone tell me ...are all ABC2's programs repeats after they have screened on ABC1?? Saw a great docu on Krakatoa the other night ...hadn't seen it advertised anywhere else though.

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Can anyone tell me ...are all ABC2's programs repeats after they have screened on ABC1??

Not always. ABC2 has a small share of exclusive and/or first run content.

I don't watch ABC2 often enough to know, but I do know that they screen Good Game on ABC2 before it airs on ABC1. Also, I once watched an episode of this interview show called Shrink Rap which I'm not sure has ever aired on ABC1.

But yes, generally ABC2 is a dumping ground for repeats and time shifted programming.

Thanks silly. It would also be nice to see what percentage of people are watching these channels as I don't ever see ratings being available.

Hey ABC 2 has red dwarf!
I'd be curious to know ratings also.

We watch ABC 2 quite a bit, say for 2 hours a night...........and sometimes rock concerts on the weekend

I have just got my HD to work   so what should I be watching ? I see that tourchwood is on 10HD so thats a start, Q: can I record it on my old VCR ?

You can't unfortunately. The VCR only works in analog, and 10HD is a digital channel.

If it's a converter box that sends it to a normal TV then it would be recordable though.

It seems that the networks tried to offer a bit of alternative stuff on the HD channels, playing movies or or older shows and alternative programming to the late night 'paid commercial advertising' but that's mostly stopped.  I was a big fan of sci-fi Thursday but for now Smallville isn't on, Euereka isn't on, Journeyman got axed, and I missed the starting gun on Battlestar Galactica so never got into the plot well enough and it's too late now.  I've seen all the X-files too many times and I don't really have the patients for new things at the moment.

I only have HDTV because a while back I bought a laptop and when I opened the box it came with a bonus TV tuner that does HDTV.  I have that plugged into a home server and ever since then I've used it to watch HD shows that I don't really want to miss, but it isn't just flipping on the TV and it isn't even connected to the TV.  It sends encodes it into something small enough to send accross the wifi network and is picked up on my laptop, so that has a lot to do with not watching HD as much.  At the same time as it being a little bit more difficult, it's great for recording and even when I'm just watching it normally I can do that pausing it, or even better some things I'm a half hour late for and going straight through the commercials is nice.  
I was just remembering why I never just hooked the computer up to the TV and it was because I didn't want to spend on a remote control thing, however I just now realised that the computer has bluetooth and I can use my mobile as a remote.  I wonder if that's even worth setting up.  Probably not.
My computer shipped with Windows, supposidly didn't have bluetooth, no drivers were available for it, there was no indication of it, but I run Linux and one day I compiled an acpi module to see if I could... don't remember why now, I really didn't need this as I already had proper acpi support.  It turned up a bluetooth device though, I enabled it, and it works quite well.  I pull photos off my phone with it then send them back to this computer.  The laptop model isn't supposed to have that feature though.  I think it must be a feature on a later model, but it was cheaper to mass produce the boards with cheap bluetooth devices on all of them and not release a driver than it was to produce 2 differant sets of motherboards.  Don't know how it doesn't show up in the Windows device manager but I was really pleased when I made the find.

Just been pondering why my hubby and I purchased an HD TV when the likes of channel 7HD 9HD and 10HD etc only have HD programes listed once or twice a week mostly they are simulcast with 7digital  9 10 abc ect, I think we are being cheated into buying these appliances with false promises of HD-TV programmes that are not acutally being aired at all. I feel like selling our HD TV and going back to a cheaper brand of TV and watching Digital anyway cause thats all thats on anyway.  

Hmm this thread should be merged with our current HD-TV thread.

But in response, I've noticed since getting my new TV that the HD channels, although they are mostly simulcast, have a much better picture quality to them.

TartanGal - welcome to the eBlah forums!

Don't forget that a lot of 'simulcast' content on the HD channels is also broadcast in HD, so you'll still benefit from a much higher picture quality on popular shows such as Neighbours and Home & Away and many of the popular American dramas.

I agree though that it would be great to have a lot more alternative content on the HD channels. But you can still benefit from the HD picture quality on the "normal" shows..

Seven do seem to think 'alternative' is Make Me A Supermodel.