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Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on June 24, 2015, 11:30 AM:

A new television channel has appeared on Sky 343, it's a free-to-air channel which also hopes to be on Freesat later in the year.
It's called Talking Pictures TV and as far as I can see this is connected with Renown Pictures who have the rights to hundreds of old British films, often from E.J.Fancey.
http://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/

Posted by Steve Carter (Member # 4821) on June 24, 2015, 12:38 PM:

Thank-you Maurice, I never knew of this channel, it's bit like the old 'Matinee Movies' Channel, I hope they show 'Stormy Crossing'...

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on June 25, 2015, 06:59 AM:

From talk on other forums they had/have some bitrate problems on the channel - at least the satellite transponder.
http://www.zetaminor.com/roobarb/showthread.php?47421-Talking-Pictures-TV/page8 for example, and the thread was started by Renown.

Posted by Steve Carter (Member # 4821) on September 05, 2015, 05:00 AM:

Having viewed films on this channel now for a few weeks, I can only say that the picture quality is very poor sometimes like viewing through the bottom of a 'pint pot'. When analog tv had a weak signal you could expect ghosting grainy picture etc, but when digital tv is of a low quality it's very soft focus, and becomes very pixelated, yes they screen some very good and sometimes never seen films, but at the expense of very, very poor quality. Personally I think the channel is to showcase the films on sale by Renown, at one point I cleaned my specs and guess what, the picture was worse...

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on January 28, 2016, 02:50 AM:

I have now been watching Talking Pictures TV for a couple of weeks and have to say that most of what I have seen has been quite acceptable. We must not forget that some of their films are very old and they have done the best they can. I have now watched some Old Mother Riley films which I have never seen before.

I have bought a Hitachi Freeview HD Recorder from Argos @ £139. I can report that it performs very well.

I attach links to the recorder and the programme schedules for anyone interested.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1168305.htm
http://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/schedule/

Posted by Del Phillipson (Member # 513) on January 28, 2016, 03:32 AM:

Been watching this for a few weeks now, it's great, we have watched some great British classics from the 40's/50's and 60's.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on January 28, 2016, 04:06 AM:

I should add that Talking Pictures TV is not transmitted in HD although you need access to HD receivers to receive it.
With the new Hitachi recorder all HD channels such as those from the BBC are available.
The recorder comes with an HDMI lead and if your TV has HD availability the recorder's output can be set to 1080p.
But don't worry if your TV does not have an HDMI input socket, the recorder also has the good old SCART socket to access similar sockets on your older TV. Note that a SCART lead is not included in the box.

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on January 28, 2016, 04:24 AM:

Yes and thankfully it uses the better coding that the HD channels also use not MPEG2.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on February 05, 2016, 10:05 AM:

Now available on Freesat. Channel 306.

Posted by Kevin Hassall (Member # 2352) on February 05, 2016, 04:02 PM:

It's a great channel they even show b movie horrors too

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