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All posts by Corin

Below are all of Corin's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.


In fact you can pick up three US TV stations in Europe from satellite -- BYU TV from Salt Lake City, UT, MSNBC, both on Telstar 12 at 15.0° West Europe and South Africa beams, and The Pentagon Channel on Eutelst 9A at 9.0° East.

Telstar 12 also carries NBC feeds on the Europe and South African beams, one of which is frequently the NBC Today Show (the original breakfast tv show) from NBC
s Manhattan headquarters.

CNN [USA] also used to be available on Telstar 12 for a number of years but was discontinued about 2 years ago.

Incidentally it is incorrect and extremely misleading to say that "it's just too far away to get signals from the satellites."

The distance from Brighton, East Sussex to Buffalo, NY is approximately 5 800 km, but the distance from Brighton, East Sussex to Astra 2 satellite cluster is of the order of 36 000 km, which as you can see is over six times the distance.

The reason that US TV stations cannot generally be received in Europe by satellite is because the satellites which transmit them are too low in the sky, below the horizon, and even if they were visible, their beams are directed at the Americas and not Europe. Also the majority of Ku band tranmsissions are encrypted and only available with a receiver and paid up subscription.

And for those that are prepared to pay money to Rupert Murdoch, there is always PBS UK on the $ky EPG.
LU
This news about Challenge and Pick TV going unencrypted is 18 days late.

The stations went clear on Eutelsat 28A and Astra 2A respectively on June 6th, 2012.

Why not some breaking news about the BBC Olympic streams, one of which was carrying a continuous looping promotion for $ky Sports?
LU
"it is NOT advised to carry out a retune"

That is totally contrary to the official advice of Freeview (DTV Services Limited) who state quite categorically that regular re-tuning is not just advisable but absolutely necessary.

From www.freeview.co.uk link icon  Freeview
/ Home
/ Help
/ Retuning Your Equipment
/ How to retune your equipment

QUOTE

New channels are launched on Freeview from time to time along with other updates to the service. So it pays to retune your digital box every couple of months to make sure you are up to date.

UNQUOTE

If you do not retune soon, you may miss out on the most exciting of Freeview's latest TV stations -- Channel 47
LU
ITV HD
Friday 29 June 2012 2:17PM
According to KingofSat and Lyngsat, STV HD West has left 10936V.

Now this afternoon I am getting zero quality reading on this frequency and no sign of ITV-1 HD Granada either.

Can somebody please confirm that ITV-1 HD Granada has now left 10936V and if so, to which frequency has it moved?
LU