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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted 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/

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Steve Carter
Master Film Handler

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From: Bristol, UK
Registered: Apr 2015

posted 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'...

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted 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.

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Steve Carter
Master Film Handler

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From: Bristol, UK
Registered: Apr 2015

posted 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...

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted 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/

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Del Phillipson
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Derbyshire, England
Registered: Dec 2005

posted 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.

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted 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.

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted January 28, 2016 04:24 AM

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

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted February 05, 2016 10:05 AM

Now available on Freesat. Channel 306.

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Kevin Hassall
Master Film Handler

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From: Walsall, England
Registered: Dec 2010

posted February 05, 2016 04:02 PM

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

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