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TV4ME now testing

If you stumble upon a new signal on your digital TV on Channel 74, Seven is currently test transmitting TV4ME.

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If you stumble upon a new signal on your digital TV on Channel 74, Seven is currently test transmitting TV4ME.

As reported last month, this datacasting channel consists of branded content in offer lifestyle, finances, community, education and shopping. It has already been seen in rural areas via Prime Media.

TV4 will be added to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and in regional Queensland through Seven Queensland.

The content comes from Brand New Media and online guides indicate the titles include Scrap It TV, Ab Circle Pro, Ahh Bra, Aero Pilates, Eat TV and University of NSW.

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  1. If Stephen Conroy really wants to do something grand for Australian society, compared to Internet Filter crap; his government would pass legislation banning infomercials on all commercial TV networks forcing them to only be shown on such a vile channel like TV4Me

  2. I am annoyed with Channel 7 in general. Firstly they used to have channel 70 as their HD channel complete with Dolby 5 channel surround sound on some programs. Then we lost the surround sound. Then they changed the HD channel to 73 which shows mostly old repeats in the 4:3 aspect ratio & a few wide screen programs which are very unlikely to be in HD.
    Actually I thought TV channels were required by law to show at least 20 hours of HD per week.
    Channel 70 & 71 show virtually exactly the same programs all the time, so why not return the HD channel to 70 & give us back the surround sound & show some decent HD programs.
    I live in the Burnett, Wide Bay area of Qld.
    Why didn’t 7 mention their new channel on their existing news services & explain that it is in MPEG4 & resetting may be necessary & a lot of older equipment will not receive it.

  4. Am i the only person that actually read the article??? TV4ME now “testing”…. testing is the word of the day….
    if we were to go back to the 5 oiginal channels u’d complain, now we go so many free channel n ur still complaining… if u dont dont like it, u can always go for foxtel n pay for ur shit!!!

    and no i dont work for the channel, just sick of all this negativity in general…humanity is trying to move forward!!!!

  5. It’s actually killed my (admittedly oldish) Thompson DTI1500HD set top box. Found the new channel last night and now after the scan won’t change from the new channel, but can’t show pictures. I can’t even get to the menu. None of the buttons on either the remote or the box itself do anything. Power off and on changes nothing either.
    Instead of getting a new channel I now have none. 🙁
    Not happy at all.

  9. Same as eveyone else,”It’s appearing in the guide but I can’t get picture or sound, it just comes up with this little box saying ‘HD Service’, My TV is full hd though so I’m not sure what’s going on.
    My tv is an LG LCD Full HD, just over 2 years old”

    So whats the point broadcasting in MPEG-4/H.264 video and AAC audio if most of us have Tv’s that are 12mth – 2+ years old, not realy reaching the gen pop.
    By the sounds of it, not missing much anyway.

  10. @Shammy I have a Panasonic Viera as well but I needed to go through the setup menu to accept MPEG4 channels which forces a re-scan of all channels but TV4 does now appear. Check the instruction manual for your TV.

  12. it is an infomercial dedicated channel. if it was a pay tv option no one would have it! oh and each day it repeats the same surfing show….which is a plug for a website and in my estimate has been repeated 60 times in the past 2 months its been on regional tv here. lucky its digital and not a tape cause it would be stretched to hell by now like a video of the Wiggles!

  13. I have just received it where i live but my Panasonic TV doesn’t support the video or sound they are transmitting and it’s a Vierra model but the TEAC TV’s we have support the sound but no video, so it is useless them transmitting when we can’t view it !

  14. @ Kenny – I’m not saying it’s quality content. What I’m saying is that legislation won’t allow an actual general entertainment channel on there anyway. So TV4ME isn’t depriving anyone of a potentially better channel.

  16. Heck, any new channel is a good channel. And I find infomericals funny in small doses, at least now I can get my jollies at leisure. That said, I am a student bum, so maybe others don’t have the time to be forgiving.
    That said, in all fairness, it does actually have educational content. There’s a program on making 3D animation right now.

  17. Hard to believe but Australian commercial TV have actually managed to reach a new low in content. I had thought their “Investigative journalism” shows were the pinnacle.
    Obviously even cheaper content than the usual multiple re-runs of old 5’th rate American garbage.
    If it wasn’t for ABC and SBS I wouldn’t even bother to turn a TV on.

  18. There is enough crap ad’s are on allready ! I have deleted this channel when the update popped up !

    Do we really need this..?

    E-Bay is gooooood………

  20. I’m still interested to see what its like. It showed up on my program menu but we couldn’t get any images so they’re obviously still trying to overcome some technical issues with reception.

  21. @Jeremy – “It fits into a loophole for educational content” Yeah, right. Now “advertising” has morphed to “advertorial” to “home shopping”, to “educational content”?
    Don’t know what the technical issues are but no such problems when Prime launced it a month ago.
    Sadly, someone is making a fortune from this garbage, so it will be there for a while.

  22. Found this one purely by accident last night. One good thing though – it might be full of rubbish home shopping, boring advertorials and fake psychics but at least we’re spared those loathsome American religious nuts – Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyers and the other con artists. Or is that delight still to come?

  23. To the complainers:

    1) WIth current legislation, it’s TV4ME, or nothing. It fits into a loophole for educational content ‘datacasting’ – which is why it is allowed to air. No more general entertainment or similar channels are allowed right now – and won’t be until 2014 at the earliest, when the analogue spectrum is turned off.

    2) @ John Ross “This channel is totally useless if it cannot be seen on most tv’s” – that’s not the case. Nearly all currently selling televisions support MP4/H.264, and the majority of set top boxes and TVs for the past few years have also supported it. It’s the minority that cannot see MP4 channels.

    …and if we want more channels in future, we should hope everyone gets tuners with MP4 capability, as it would allow 4x as many channels as we have now, at the same quality, in the same spectrum. Or even better, if all channels were MP4, they could *all* be HD and use no more bandwidth.

  24. Wow, us regional peoples had it before others! That’s a first! Here in Canberra its been available for quite a while, having yet really seen anything that interesting though. Fairly poor visuals/audio…. but can only get better can’t it???

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