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SKY Channels etc; ..WEEK # 21.o
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Sound tv Will move to EPG channel 277 on Thursday (Thanks Otis)
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ALL CHANNELS HAVE SYMBOL RATE OF 27.5 AND AN F.E.C. OF 2/3. EXCEPT WHERE LISTED.
Next Update; Thursday / Friday
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Sound tv Will move to EPG channel 277 on Thursday (Thanks Otis)
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ALL CHANNELS HAVE SYMBOL RATE OF 27.5 AND AN F.E.C. OF 2/3. EXCEPT WHERE LISTED.
I. D.…….………..Freq; ………..……..INFO
10060…………….10.758 V SR 22000 FEC 5/6 Showing ITV1 London (Thanks Ian Cleverly / bendolino)
10070…………….10.758 V SR 22000 FEC 5/6 Showing ITV2 (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
10075…………….10.758 V SR 22000 FEC 5/6 Blocked (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
10080…………….10.758 V SR 22000 FEC 5/6 Showing ITV1 Granada (Thanks Ian Cleverly / bendolino)
10101…………….10.758 V SR 22000 FEC 5/6 Blocked
10170…………….10.714 H SR 22000 FEC 5/6 Showing ITV News in 16:9
50315........……….11.527 V BT Card & tone
51117……………..11.681 V Part time testing. For EWTN TV
52350…………….11.343 V Feeds + Bars & tone For Big Game TV (www.biggame.tv )
8305……………...10.729 V. SR 22.000 FEC 5/6 No Signal present (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
8325…………….. 10.729 V. SR 22.000 FEC 5/6 No Signal present (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
8330…………….. 10.729 V. SR 22.000 FEC 5/6 No Signal present (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
8335…………….. 10.729 V. SR 22.000 FEC 5/6 No Signal present (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
8389……………...10.729 V. SR 22.000 FEC 5/6 Showing E4
10075….…………10.758 V. SR 22.000 FEC 5/6 Bars & Tone. Blocked
10101….…………10.758 V. SR 22.000 FEC 5/6. ITV Test, Blocked
50181……………..11.307 V Showing Simply Shopping 638
5719………………12.324 V Showing Boomerang
52567……………..11.426 V Showing The Adult Channel Box Office
1837………………12.226 H Showing Sky Mix (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
1840………………12.226 H As above. (Now unavailable, if you haven’t stored it already)
52108……………..11.264 H. No signal present (Thanks Sky Fan)
{Blank}……………12.265 H with, 'Programme is not available' (Thanks Craigsteele2001)
7521….........………12.422 H Showing “William Road” Bars & Tone
3310………………10.729 V Showing Bars & Tone
3020……………….12.422 H Showing “William Road” Bars & Tone
1871………………12.382 H No Signal present
9339………………11.508 H No Signal present.
50686……………..11.585 H No Signal present.
1430………………12.304 H No Signal present
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Bits of Radio newsOfficials at GMG Radio have confirmed to Sky Digi Online that Jazz FM, on EPG 917, will be rebranded to London's Smooth FM on 7th June 2005. www.media247.co.uk/skydigital/newsarchive/2005/04/jazz_fm_to_be_r_1.php
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“Coming Soon Section”…...
June 2nd
South Asia World ‘SAW’ Chl;540
Travel Channel 3 (?)
from Chart Show TV – World Cinema Channel? (From Sky is the best)
August
Baby tv http://www.babytv.info (Thanks OTIS)
September
Propeller TV (www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds21162.html ){Thanks Skyisthebest}
Faze TV
Home2, (a brand-based shopping channel)
October
More4
Fight+ launches simultaneously in the UK and Scandinavia www.fightplus.com (Thanks, 2fabiola)
Autumn
Sky EPG overhaul
Some new channels on the horizon
Apna Bazaar, (Teleshopping) www.apnabazaar.tv
DM TV Shop
LTV1 (Londonderry)
Home Shopping TV www.onetv.co.uk
TVOD www.tvod.co.uk (A TV On Demand Station?)
Baby TV, www.babytv.info
(Thanks to Analoguesat & Otis for the above)
also Fashion Music TV. (Thanks, 2fabiola)
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Newsie Bits
Newsie Bits
1. Channel 4's Freeview-bound entertainment channel E4 is to go 24-hours. The once-pay-TV-only channel is going free-to-air at the end of the month to coincide with the launch of Big Brother 6. E4 will broadcast a new music video strand, the E4 Music Zone, daily from 6am to 2pm. The show will have interactive elements, offering viewers the chance to vote for favourite tracks and send in text messages. (From:- www.dtg.org.uk )
2. Cable group Telewest has agreed a £194m deal to acquire Sit-Up TV, owner of digital shopping channels including Price Drop TV and two new movie channels. ( From:- dtg.org.)
3. UKTV Drama available on Sky EPG 147 will soon begin broadcasting 24 hours a day. The channel currently is only on air between1pm and 5am. The change takes place on Monday Next,30th May From:- http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital/newsarchive/2005/04/uktv_drama_set.php
4. Five is planning to launch a digital channel for women, according to the Media Bulletin. The new station - Five's first multichannel spin-off - would be similar to LivingTV with a lineup of female-targeted lifestyle programmes. (from:- www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20904.html )
5. Reports in The Observer say that UK satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting is set to follow the BBC's example and announce job cuts as part of an efficiency drive. According to the report, up to one thousand jobs, 10% of the workforce could go following advice from Boston Consulting Group. Unlike the job cuts recently announced at the BBC, the planned cuts at BSkyB are said to focus on back-office functions such as human resources and finance, rather than journalistic and production staff. (From:- Observer / medianetwork.blogspot.)
6. Buena Vista International Television-Asia Pacific has announced a multi-year licensing deal with Zee Network, for its newly rebranded English movie channel, formerly known as Zee Movie Zone, which may launch in the UK later in 2005. (From Wotsat )
7. Sit-up TV is launching a third shopping channel on Sky Digital and ntl.Speed Auction TV will stage auctions lasting for a maximum of four minutes, which the broadcaster hopes will attract a younger audience than sister channels bid TV and price-drop TV. From:- www.dtg.org
8. India's broadcasting corporation Chief Executive Officer of Prasar Bharati, which oversees Doordarshan, KS Sarma said, India's public broadcaster Doordarshan is planning a TV channel for people of Indian descent living in Britain.
9. Faze tv ( http://fazetv.co.uk/ ) a gay lifestyle channel is on the cards for a September Launch (From DTG & http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital/newsarchive/2005/03/gay_lifestyle_c.php
10. Technology TV is coming in October. For Full details:- http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/b...technology.html and licensing details:-http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/806.htm (Thanks OTIS)
11. India's religious channel Aastha TV is looking at launching in the UK later this year. Aastha broadcasts programming in Hindi, Gujarati and English. This year, the channel has plans to air locally originated programming as well. (From: www.media247.co.uk/skydigital )
12. VC; The company behind the two channels, (Horror Channel & Amore) is planning to launch at least one other new network, no further.details about the third service are known. Amore, may not now start till later this year and will be a stand alone service. (from TELE-satellite)
13. That TV http://www.thattv.co.uk website has now been updated stating that the channel will be launching later this year. (Thanks Lunar)
14. H2o TV to launch summer 2005 .Details:- www.h2o.tv
15. Channel East is set to relaunch and make a return to Sky Digital.
16. News channel Aaj Tak plans to launch soon.
17. Fuel launch seems to have been put back to “Late Spring”, according to Media 24/7. There are reports from other posters on D.S. that Fuel maybe a programme strand on the FX channel rather than a stand alone channel. (I have found a U.S. web-site www.fuel.tv)
18. There has been no new information on the proposed Sky One Spin-off Channel.
19. Qatar-based satellite TV broadcaster Al-Jazeera has formally announced the senior management team that will launch its English-language news channel in the first quarter of 2006.( From:- medianetwork.blogspot.)
20. Ofcom's proposed analogue switch off timetable has BorderTV, Westcountry and HTV Wales regions completing switchover to digital in 2008, with all other regions completing the transition by the end of 2012.
21. The analogue Switch off is getting nearer, a full transcript of the Westminster Debate is available Here:- http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/cm050315/halltext/50315h03.htm#50315h03_head0
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HiDef TV – HDTV SECTION
HiDef TV – HDTV SECTION
There is a thread about HiDef TV (http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=215416 ) Which has links to some 720p screenshots ( www.giusberto.ch/hdtv ) They are I think quite stunning..
British Sky Broadcasting has appointed Thomson as the initial manufacturer of the set-top box for its forthcoming High Definition Televisionservice and confirmed that it is on track to launch in 2006. Speaking at the DVB World conference in Dublin, BSkyB's Chief Operating Officer, Richard Freudenstein, revealed that Sky's HDTV box would feature a similar Personal Video Recorder capability to the existing Sky+ box. Freudenstein said that offering PVR capability as a standard in the HDTV arena will ensure that Sky+'s 6000,000 subscribers would continue to enjoy control and flexibility in association with the highest-quality programming. From :- Advanced Television .com
Further to the above article, Ahead of next year's launch, Sky has signed technology and equipment suppliers - Sony, Tandberg Television and Harris Corporation - to support its forthcoming HDTV service. There new stories at:- http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital/newsarchive/2005/04/sky_signs_up_hd.php & http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20662.html
Sony has revealed that their 2004 range of "HD Capable" large screen LCD and plasma TV displays - which feature analogue component inputs instead of the "HD Ready" HDMI/HDCP inputs - will be able to be used with Sky's high definition television service when it launches. Press release::- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds19787.html
Sony, has forecast that 20m European households will have high definition TV (HDTV) sets by 2008. HDTV set prices – currently at £2,000 – would continue to fall, making them more of an attractive proposition to the mass consumer market. “Once you show HDTV people are hooked, says Chris Deering, Sony’s European CEO. (From Digital TV Group)
European HDTV pioneer Euro1080 is to launch a second service, HD-2, in June 2005, with the emphasis on pay-per-event. Gabriel Fehervari, General Manager of Euro1080 also revealed that the operator would be using MPEG-4 encoding from that time. In addition to Euro1080’s involvement with SES-Astra, Fehervari confirmed that he had secured distribution deals on alternative satellites such as Sirius, Hellas Sat and Turksat, as well as some 20 cable networks. (From Advanced Television.com & Colin Mann in London)
The EBU Technical Committee has recommended that Emission standards for HDTV should be based on progressive scanning: 720p/50 is currently the optimum solution, but 1080p/50 is an attractive option for the longer term. Although there are strong technical arguments in favour of progressive scanning for emission, the EBU Technical Committee recognises that some broadcasters might wish to broadcast 1080I-programme material. As consumer electronics equipment (e.g. set-top boxes and displays) will accept both 720p and 1080I formats, broadcasters will be able to select either of these formats * even on a programme-by-programme basis. Taking into account that production and emission standards do not need to be identical, further EBU studies on Production standards for HDTV in Europe are in progress. This work is not intended to result in a recommendation for a single standard for HDTV production. ( From TeleSatellite)
As per the above the ASTRA HDTV Press releases are here:- www.ses-astra.com/products/broadcast/hdtv/index.shtml
Pace has announced plans to make high definition compatible set-top boxes available to satellite and cable operators across Europe. The DS840 digital satellite box offers an embedded Irdeto conditional access system to allow viewers to subscribe to the services of Euro1080, the HD channel launched in 2004. ( From Wotsat & D.S. Details:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds15751.html )
When SKY launches its HDTV service it aims to have 7 HDTV Channels broadcasting in total. (Thanks Andyk22k)
bmsgharris found this:- www.hd-1.tv
ginga has found this :- www.homecinemachoice.com/cgi-bin/shownews.php?id=7347
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Cable group NTL has signed up to carry all 27 channels from Telewest's Flextech and UKTV arms.
Under the three-year deal, NTL customers will continue to have access to the 17 Flextech and UKTV channels already on the platform, and by 2006 there should be 10 more. (From:- www.dtg.org.uk )
UK cable operator NTL has unveiled plans to launch a low-cost digital television package aimed at countering the threat of Freeview. Chief executive Simon Duffy said NTL—which is poised to announce a long-expected merger with Telewest—said the "starter pack" service would be launched in the second half of 2005. The service is expected to closely resemble the bundle of 39 channels plus telephone line offered by Telewest. (From:- www.dtg.org.uk )
NTL tests HDTV over ADSL2+In a financial presentation, Britain's biggest cable operator confirmed that the trials of ADSL2+ had first started in February with a view to providing Internet access speeds of over 18Mbps downstream. The top tier of consumer broadband service currently available to NTL customers is 3Mbps downstream. Full article:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20194.html
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Other Stuff
A full line-up of Sky’s EPG can be found
Here:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/satellite/epg/
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The 2005 Version of the European Satellite Locator is now available
by visiting www.globecast.com. (Thanks:- Ian Cleverly)
Other Stuff
A full line-up of Sky’s EPG can be found
Here:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/satellite/epg/
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The 2005 Version of the European Satellite Locator is now available
by visiting www.globecast.com. (Thanks:- Ian Cleverly)
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If you are into DTT as well as Digisat you might find this interesting.
http://www.dtt-tx-info.org/dso.html
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If you are fed up constantly having to phone an 0870 or similar to Sky’s Subscriber Centre and you have the option of being able to phone any national number in your phone bundle in effect “Free” (Telewest and BT etc; Have similar call charges). Then Lakhvinder Baddhan over at www.media247.co.uk/skydigital has numbers that fall within your bundle and won’t cost you any more than you already pay.
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If you are into DTT as well as Digisat you might find this interesting.
http://www.dtt-tx-info.org/dso.html
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If you are fed up constantly having to phone an 0870 or similar to Sky’s Subscriber Centre and you have the option of being able to phone any national number in your phone bundle in effect “Free” (Telewest and BT etc; Have similar call charges). Then Lakhvinder Baddhan over at www.media247.co.uk/skydigital has numbers that fall within your bundle and won’t cost you any more than you already pay.
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They arnt FTA are they?
Not all the channels are FTA, some are FTV, Sub, and PPV. You can monitor these channels by adding them into your other channels.
Note- you can only view test channels that relate to what package your on, for example if a channel called Sky Sports 4 was to start testing then you would need Sky Sports world or Sky world package to view it.
Sorry if this sounds a bit confusing, but I have tried my best. Hopefully some of the other guys that post on this thread can add futher information to what I have posted.
I guess you think you can add chanels and get them for free dont u?
Sky One, Sky Mix,The Box duplicate on 11.720H no longer to be found.
Stop giggling at the back!!!!!!! :mad:
edit: oops! :-D
Now that Sound TV is moving to a better suited EPG section, will Your TV also move to the entertainment section? Your TV seems out of place where it is at the moment.
Might go on 279 but the Escape Channel might move to Entertainment section because its now changed to programming from Hollywood TV and also its showing game shows as well.
274 Vegas 24/7
275 Jackpot TV
276 Escape Channel (Moves soon? & channel name change?)
277 Sound TV (Moves on Thursday)
278 Big Game TV (Launches on Tuesday 31st May - EPG number unconfirmed)
Might look like this:
275 Jackpot TV
277 Sound TV
279 Escape Channel (Hollywood Extra?)
281 Big Game TV
Nobody like the idea of new channels or moving channels more than me, but why do you have to kepp guessing what the EPG will look like why can't you just wait and see.
I think it's taking the anorak theory a bit to the extreme.
and BOY, have I had mine for along time,
trouble is should it be wet or dry??????????
275 Jackpot TV
277 Sound TV
279 Big Game TV.
232 Hollywood TV
233 Hollywood Extra (escape channel)
Escape Channel (rename too) this might change on Thursday with Sound TV moving to the Entertainment section.
Its due to start next Thursday on EPG 540 in the News section.
http://olatedownloadhosting.cooleds.com/zoton2/uploads/Big%20Game%20TV%20Promo.AVI
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