Channel 5HD Now Subscription Channel

[Rat]

As title

you now need a Sky Subscription to view Channel 5

Channel 5 ‏@channel5_tv 1h
Hi @******* viewers now need a Sky subscription and will need to subscribe to a Sky HD package in order to receive the channel.

taken from their Twitter feed

cant see it coming to Freeview anytime soon then :err:

 

[jamesyboyjim]

I thought channel 5 always needed a sub on sat?

 

[Rat]

FTV card as far as I was aware mate

 

[alimac]

robbing ba**a* do my head in that lot

 

[trevortron]

Yep it's right enough, active FTV card just comes up with 'Wrong card' message. Not that anyone actually watches C5. Do they?

 

[charlie senator]

Person of interest is ok as is that program on benifits and proud / shoplifter and proud etc.

 

[trevortron]

Sounds terribly like C5,are skint & have gone cap-in-hand to $ly to become part of their subscription package.

 

[mdt]

isnt this country great!! regards mdt

 

[Rat]

In my opinion all terrestrial channels (HD) should be broadcast on all platforms as a free channel

I know Satellite is a little more difficult with fringe reception but I thought they more or less sorted this with Astra 2F

 

[alimac]

totally agree mate

should always be on all platforms

hate the fact its joined that lot another monopoly

 

[jamesyboyjim]

Channel 4 HD was the same for a while too I believe

 

[sakiblateef]

No more channel 5 HD if we lose HD package on CS.

 

[elmoemo]

I thought channel 5 always needed a sub on sat?

Sd doesn't need sub but hd does I believe

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[costacurta73]

it's daft how you have to pay for the HD version of a terrestrial TV channel just because of the quality difference. The annoying thing is that SD often looks crap on a decent HD TV!

also, what are they going to do when 4K comes along?

Sky claims first 4K live UK broadcast, TechRadar present for the big test | News | TechRadar

 

[trevortron]

Is 5Hd available on terrestrial? Come to that is there any HD on terrestrial yet? Here they started off using MPEG4 right from the beginning, but still broadcast in SD. Typical Portuguese logic. But the PQ is very good.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin.]

5HD is Sky/VM only