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5* & 5USA expected to join Freesat in 2011
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Received a mail from Channel 5 today:
Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Freesat.
Due to a lack of narrow beam capacity, we have been unable to make FIVER (5* from 7th March) and Five USA (5 USA from 7th March) available on this platform since it was launched. However, additional capacity on Freesat is likely to become available later this year and we are planning to make the channels available once this is in place.
If there is anything further we can help you with, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you for your interest in Channel 5.
I guess the extra capacity refered to, must be Astra 1N.
Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Freesat.
Due to a lack of narrow beam capacity, we have been unable to make FIVER (5* from 7th March) and Five USA (5 USA from 7th March) available on this platform since it was launched. However, additional capacity on Freesat is likely to become available later this year and we are planning to make the channels available once this is in place.
If there is anything further we can help you with, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you for your interest in Channel 5.
I guess the extra capacity refered to, must be Astra 1N.
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ive been stuck in a hotel all week by myself and with no pvr and freeview only. i have often just found myself going to 5 usa to watch CSI when i cant find anything..yep sad i know, but it keeps be entertained:D
If you are talking about a freesat from sky card, not a sky subscription, it does not need pairing to the box and will work in any box.
Good news about fiver and fiveUSA. They are sadly missing from freesat and their addition will make the channel line up pretty complete as far as I'm concerned.
No news of five HD FTA yet then? They could have space for that straight away if they had leased the space the BBC advertised on their 2D HD transponder, so I'm not totally convinced space is the issue, perhaps a lack of will to find the space?
Yes I've never had a Sky sub ever. That's good....I must have got mixed up by memories of having to read some on-screen numbers to a Sky rep when I first got the card and then having to wait for something to activate. :rolleyes:
1N is going to 28.2E, launch 2nd quarter 2011. May be on line by Summer 2011.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=39089648&postcount=1
That's provided it doesn't explode at launch or fails in orbit!
Very confusing, have SES changed their mind ?
http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/sky-digital-bskyb-uk-platform-astra-28-2e-astra-2d-fringe-reception-tech/182871-astra-1n-footprint-published-via-ses-web-site.html
The statement that "ASTRA 1N will initially be positioned at ASTRA`s 28.2° East UK hotspot..." is difficult to find now on the SES/Astra website. Have the plans for Astra 1N changed?
1N was always going to be 19.2 East. Click on the Astra1n launch on the last link and it tells you when and where its going.
Anyone else think that 5* is a weird name for a channel?.
Won't make sense to go on Astra 19.2E when 28.2E is UK focused. Would you put up another satellite dish for FIVER and FIVE USA?
This came from the SES website late 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54601843@N03/5068070339
Yes. On the other hand almost anything is better than 'Fiver'.
C5 are pretty naff on the whole identity thing.
Daft channel names and an OTT DOG. :rolleyes:
That is a statement from SES Astra from last year:
ASTRA 1N will initially be positioned at ASTRA`s 28.2° East UK hotspot. ASTRA 1N will give interim additional UK 'spot beam' capacity in band C, before moving to 19.2E to replace ASTRA 1G.
Does it really matter?
C5 seem to believe they have somewhere from where to transmit and that's the important thing.
I expect C5-HD is tied in with Sky for a while yet, but it's not exactly crammed with HD stuff atm anyway.
http://www.linowsat.co.uk/cgi-bin/lsat.cgi?0282-10847-V-2050-0-0
Everyone assumes CH4HD or BBC Two HD may go there, but in the absence of that, then as long as it stays DVB-S, SD channels could be parked there instead.
Cheers,
David.
Placing all of 5s channels on a separate transponder would hopefully increase the SD picture quality.
There were quite a drop after the BBC reshuffle.:(
Reading the satellite mission tab for 1N at the SES page got me thinking...
The east Beam of 1G, now at 31.5E (according to satbeams.com/footprints?position=31), could provide a "spot beam" to the UK, Iceland and the Atlantic ocean...
The two 1G East beam frequencies currently in use overlap with 2As (in use by $ky).
C4 HD would also need a tighter beam soon:rolleyes:
"Five - see below".