Look at the thread "DVD recorder help"

Each of the FTA stations have a limited amount of broadcast bandwidth, enough for two SD channels and one HD channel. TEN were simulcasting ONEHD on their second SD channel but they now need that bandwidth to broadcast their new channel, Eleven. The stations are legally obliged to broadcast a certain number of hours of HD per year, so they cannot choose to broadcast all SD. So unfortunately no ONEHD for you without a new HD set top box.

'Can someone from Network 10 please explain..'

Perhaps you should email them rather than just hoping someone from Network Ten just happens to be reading this forum.

Buy a HD set top box. Problem solvered.

You can pickup a HD set top box for under $100 - perhaps a Xmas present to yourself.

Skip, funnily enough, OneHD staff have read and posted here recently.

You can get one for under $50 these days.

http://www.crazysales.com.au/electronics/televisions/digital-set-top-boxes_c377?gclid=CKPOy_ab_KUCFYtspAod7zepoA

I'm more annoyed that you cannot record it on iq anymore damn it!

Each of the FTA stations have a limited amount of broadcast bandwidth, enough for two SD channels and one HD channel. TEN were simulcasting ONEHD on their second SD channel but they now need that bandwidth to broadcast their new channel, Eleven. The stations are legally obliged to broadcast a certain number of hours of HD per year, so they cannot choose to broadcast all SD. So unfortunately no ONEHD for you without a new HD set top box.

To aussieboomers4eva, many thanks for a well written and educational reply, much appreciated.

Back to my prehistoric days and living without one hd.

"I'm more annoyed that you cannot record it on iq anymore damn it!"

This^

I'm upgrading to HD IQ for $100 while they've got the sale on but I'm not happy about it.

X - we recently got an IQ upgrade for free. Basically my wife rang up and cracked the shits about them giving away free stuff to new customers all the time but never rewarding existing users. At that stage we just had a normal Foxtel box etc. After a bit of a run around on the phone she got a chick who was happy to help and said she'd send out a tech with a fre IQ box for us. They came out within 2 days, and while the installer was a bit of a goose and made a mess of plugging things in its all systems go now. We dont pay for any of the Foxtel HD channels but now can recieve the FTA HD ones via the fox box.

So before you fork out any extra cash Id try that route and failing that your existing box could always start to play up and not work properly meaning you need a replacement....

How long have you got it free for Stat??

24 months

Sweet, so you do not receive any Foxtel HD channels, but you get free to air ones?

I am a recent subscriber to NBA League Pass and if you were buying a new set top box just to get the 4 or so NBA games per week on ONE I would suggest signing up to this.

The quality is unbelievable (if you have a good net connection and can run a HDMI from your PC to your HD TV) and there are no blackouts so you get all the games.

Handy features are a condensed games feature as well as watching just "dunks" or "3's" etc.

NBA League Pass has probably been covered in length on other threads but thought it relevant here for those who may not know about it and want/need an NBA fix in light of ONE SD disappearing.

How much data do you consume per month with NBA League pass?

Nice work Stat I'll give it a shot...

I just threatened to disconnect because we couldn't tape ONE any more. No luck though. They just said we could get free installation on a 6-month plan or pay the regular 100. I could give it another shot but I think they'd have a record of my calls lol.

instead of wasting your cash to foxtel, just get a tv tuner for your computer and record it on there. i got over 2TB of space and that isnt filling up fast at all, and not mention doesnt give any money to foxtel.

they got you by the balls X. if your computer savvy just put the money towards your internet and download everything. i have had foxtel in the past and have found it to be really crap apart from the sports.

You can buy a HD pvr for supercheap these days. A brand called strong sell a HD box for $69 that let's you record via USB. So buy a USB harddrive or memory stick, starting from $50 and bam you have yourself a HD recorder.

X, did you actually press on from there to ask to disconnect? I'd say they can tell the difference between those who are really looking to disconnect and those easily persuaded to keep handing over money.

First I told them the reasons, then I stuck with it for a few minutes until I thought they were actually about to disconnect it lol, then I just hung up on them.

SRT, footy in FoxSports is the main thing for me. And no, I'm probably not computer-savvy enough for that setup.

I think I'll go for the HDIQ before a recorder/hardrive, Detroit. It's a bit more convenient and not much more expensive.

Cheers anon, I'll give it another shot. Problem is I don't think I am prepared to lose it haha. Oh well, there's not much on this time of the year anyway and there's always the free installation for 'new' customers to fall back on...

I went with the email this time:

"Hi, X here. Our Foxtel IQ account is registered under (08) 12345678 at 1 X drive, Xville.

Due to the recent emergence of FTA HD channels, as well as the fact that ONE's SD channel (for NBL) is no longer available, there is really no point of keeping our Foxtel IQ if these channels can't be recorded and therefore we would like to disconnect within the next few days (before the next billing cycle).

If it is possible to record FTA HD channels with the HD IQ box, we are obviously interested in that, but if this involves more installation fees or an increase in the monthly fee it is not feasible. Information on this is appreciated as your website really doesn't tell you much.

At risk of sounding rude, if it is possible to reply promptly it would be greatly appreciated as we do not want to be stuck paying for January if we don't get it disconnected in time.

Thankyou,

X"

What do you reckon?

PS, that's right, I had my name changed to X by deed poll and I live on X drive in Xville. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?

I can't understand why they didn't turn off the current channel 11 and ran channel 1 as the HD and 12 as the SD.
What is the point of having 2 identical channels in 1 and 12 being HD and none being SD?
I work arvo shift, so the only chance I have to see the game on Friday night is to record it with channel 12 (SD) on my hard disc recorder. I am generally out on Sunday early evenings too.
I now have to go out and buy a HD recorder or just miss out on watching NBL on TV at all again.
We finally get it back on TV, only to have them take it away from us again.
I went out and bought a Digital TV (HD aswell, but that's beside the point) and a hard disc recorder when they announced One HD. Now seems like it was a pointless exercise as I won't be able to watch my bball anyway.

For those interested re NBA league pass - a full game streamed in HD uses 3.5-4GB...

Anon, you should pick a username (if you email through, I can apply it to these past posts) - great info.

Though I don't think X has the balls to get the deal, even if he does have his own suburb... :P

I was in the same boat - I had just moved house and rang up originally to relocate but they had to enter my address in some system before it could be done and told me to call back in a week but said it would cost $100 to relocate and then extra to upgrade to IQ (I only had the old school Fox at that point). I called back but at that point had decided to cancel because I couldn't afford it with the new mortgage. The guy I spoke to said he wanted to speak to his manager about what could be offered. He came back and said because I had been with them for 3 years, good payment history, blah blah blah, they wanted to relocate me for free, upgrade to IQ2 for free, half price access for 4 months, no new contract. So obviously I took up the offer. I have Foxtel IQ2 now but cant afford to eat haha!! Good trade off I think.

Funny because I wanted to upgrade to IQ in the past and rang up pretending to want to cancel to try and get a retention offer but they were just going to cancel it. I fail to see how they are that skilled they can tell if you are bluffing or not but seems like they can - maybe they have some voice activated lie detector going on ;)

For those wondering, it got to the point where I booked an appointment for them to come and uninstall IQ. When it got to the day of the appointment with no discount offer to speak of we rang them and changed it to an upgrade for $100 + an extra $10 every month :/

Cheers ONE HD.

X... Grow some balls son... :)

Be an ar$sehole to these grubs. They take you from behind once a month without even a reach around and it's time get even.




but in the end, you ponied up another $100 and as further incentive you're paying an extra $10 a month. Surprised they didn't want your first born in the deal.