DMOL confirm EPG Reshuffle for 17/10/12 and Appeals results.
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Previously announced changes to the HD and Adult LCN positions will go ahead on October 17, 2012. HD channels will start at 101 (currently 50); the Adult section will start at 171 (currently 91).
Notes
The Children’s and News genres will move to start at LCNs 121 and 131 respectively on the Wednesday that follows 16 weeks after LCN 65 is allocated (ie when the General Entertainment genre nears full capacity). In the event that the move date falls during a change freeze then the move would take effect on the Wednesday that follows the end of the change freeze.
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Nice to see $ky lose.
Oh, and I didn't think shopping was general entertainment. I thought it was........ 'shopping'? It should have it's own section, in the 150's
Im glad they were told to shut up and deal with it by DMOL.
If only Ofcom were more like this with Sky.
No sky channels are moving.
Perhaps you should have taken part in the DMOL consultation then - it's rather too late now.
Having said that, if the stories and suppositions are correct, then perhaps QVC successfully argued otherwise.
But Sky News will, in time:
They will when General Entertainment fills, as detailed in the DMOL press release.
What's the current rate of new LCNs appearing in the general section? Based on that when will LCN 65 be used, then add 16 weeks, and that is when the News (inc Sky) and childrens section will be moving. Pathetic. Just deferring the pain. They should get it over and done with on 17 Oct so there is one less in the endless round of retunes.
No doubt some sort of a sop to Sky .......
But yes, having had two shuffles, why have another one?
With the last reshuffle (eg. Yesterday/Dave swap-over) this didn't seem to matter, but will this be the case on the 17th?
regards,
Steve.
It depends entirely on how your PVR handles this. On the Humax HDR Fox T2 it is catastrophic since the box deletes the entire recording schedule on a retune, regardless of whether the channels have changed LCN or not. I use the custom software for the HDR Fox T2 to prevent this, indeed I still haven't done the previous retune (no need).
PVRs don't usually track channels by LCN, they normally use lower level information. So provided the recording schedule isn't actually deleted by the retune, on many boxes the recording will still work. Some boxes may not even retune automatically, it may need to be done manually.
The best thing to do is post your request on a relevant DS forum for your model of box where you're more likely to find relevant experts.
Going by some past events, I am sure that they could rustle up quite a few more part-time channels squeezed into space released by dropping the existing bitrates even further.
I've been on DS for years and I missed it.
I guess it depends which forums you read. I never saw it. I don't sit there trawling for new forums you know.