TVCatchup regional capabilities

[Jver10]

I apologise if this has been asked before, but hopefully someone at TVCatchup can explain this to me.

Why are we only able to watch regional broadcasts of ITV1 and Channel 4 on TVCatchup - particularly when Channel 4 doesn't actually broadcast any regional programming?

The only regional difference on Channel 4 is advertising (it has six advertising regions spread across the UK) - and then there's S4C, which is Wales's own version of Channel 4, but since Digital Switchover in Wales S4C has been an entirely seperate operation and no longer carries Channel 4 programming.

The only regional broadcasters that should be available on TVCatchup are BBC One and ITV1 - although BBC Two does broadcast a few regional programmes at various times but only separate programming for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

I'm just saying it seems a ridiculous waste to be broadcasting Channel 4 "regions" when there's no actual regional programming on there.

Hopefully TVCatchup will allow us to watch BBC One regions (and maybe the BBC Two nations) soon.


James Vertigan.

[TVC_Colwal]

As you say this has been asked many times before which could have been found with the search function on the forums - all channels will be regionlised at some point and we have started with these channels, but it takes a hell of a lot of investment to do this.
We had the investment to do most, but the BBC upgrade will again be a significant cost to complete these changes including many additional servers and with EURO 2012 and the Olympics coming up we have chosen to spend the money and making sure the service will cope with the huge influx of traffic and be stable streams for all and have shelved the upgrades for the time being until they are over.

[growlley]

Oh goody more big sporting events - are you going to penalise existing virgin media users this time around again in favour of new traffic?

[dj_gerbil]

Oh goody more big sporting events - are you going to penalise existing virgin media users this time around again in favour of new traffic?

I think you sent this to the wrong forum, you should have posted on Virgin's Forums, they're the ones with network issues!

[TVC_Colwal]

Oh goody more big sporting events - are you going to penalise existing virgin media users this time around again in favour of new traffic?
How are we penalising existing virgin users? Care to explain?

[JasonFWard]

I don't even understand why TVC might want to penalise Virgin customers...

[growlley]

During the world cup you throttled us to a lq stream and then blamed virgin. I can dig the old thread out if needed. Grumpy old men have long memories :D

[dj_gerbil]

During the world cup you throttled us to a lq stream and then blamed virgin. I can dig the old thread out if needed. Grumpy old men have long memories :D

I think you mean the World Cup ;) and like I said, it wasn't us who throttled you.

[TVC_Colwal]

During the world cup you throttled us to a lq stream and then blamed virgin. I can dig the old thread out if needed. Grumpy old men have long memories :D
You may have a long memory but it is wrong, some ISP's have a certain amount of bandwidth they can use, and outside of that quota it becomes very hard to run and that is what happened in the world cup, if Virgin made arrangements with us then there would be no issues, but we certainly aren't going to threaten the service for other ISP's for the sake of one that want play ball. If we hit the limit with Virgin then they will suffer, but that is not throttling by us.

Hopefully things have moved on by now and with lots of changes going on in the background this 'may' not happen again, but if it does don't come running to us, speak to Virgin.