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BT Vision's awkward EPG channel numbers
Here are some of them:
855: Gold 856: Comedy Central 857: Watch 859: Fox 889: Nat Geo Wild 890: Animal Planet 937: British Eurosport 938: British Eurosport 2 943: BT Sport 1 etc. etc. Seriously, BT? The box of Vision customers has both Freeview channels and BT's linear ones. The main Freeview channels range from 1 to 87 with some extra ones, some HD and adult ones in 100-199, interactive ones from 200-399 and radio from 700-799. And then, all of sudden you get the Vision linear channels from 855 to 890? And then a few sport channels from 937 to 945? The worst EPG I've ever seen. They could just simply use the Freeview numbering, for example put some entertainment linear channels between channels 59 to 69, and 90 to 99. Sure, those linear channels are streamed but still that's not a good reason to number them between 855 and 945! |
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It gets even worse following recent changes to the EPG. The sports channels EPG numbers are now as follows:-
Sky Sports 1, 2 41,42 BT Sports (SD) 1,2 507,508 ESPN 509 BT Sports (HD)1,2 510,511 Eurosport 1,2 943,944 Easily the worst EPG I have encountered. |
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It gets even worse following recent changes to the EPG. The sports channels EPG numbers are now as follows:-
Sky Sports 1, 2 41,42 BT Sports (SD) 1,2 507,508 ESPN 509 BT Sports (HD)1,2 510,511 Eurosport 1,2 943,944 Easily the worst EPG I have encountered. Yeah definitely the worst EPG. But lemme correct you, Sky Sports has left DTT (41 and 42 refer to the DTT numbers).
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Confusing myself. The euro channels are numbered 937 and 938. The sports channels therefore range from 41 to 938 . No logic at all.
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Hi homers
The sky sports channels which are now delivered through broadband are still numbered 41 and 42 at present. |
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Hi homers
The sky sports channels which are now delivered through broadband are still numbered 41 and 42 at present. |
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LCNs 0 and 800 through 999 are reserved for manufacturers use by the DTG's D-Book. Digital UK also allows IP channels to be allocated numbers between 400-499 by the providers. All other LCNs are only available for allocation by Digital UK in accordance with their policy (PDF).
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LCNs 0 and 800 through 999 are reserved for manufacturers use by the DTG's D-Book. Digital UK also allows IP channels to be allocated numbers between 400-499 by the providers. All other LCNs are only available for allocation by Digital UK in accordance with their policy (PDF).
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LCNs 0 and 800 through 999 are reserved for manufacturers use by the DTG's D-Book. Digital UK also allows IP channels to be allocated numbers between 400-499 by the providers. All other LCNs are only available for allocation by Digital UK in accordance with their policy (PDF).
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Exactly, why would BT use the 800-999 range? They can just use the 400-499 range. And BT Sport which just launched is located from channels 507 to 511. That again doesn't make any sense. BTW what channel numbers are Sky Sports on?
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BT YouView, the successor of Vision and now simply called BT TV, now has a new EPG. Finally with some more proper numbers. You can view them on ***********.
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The BT Vision channel numbers are shortly due to be reshuffled.
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BT YouView, the successor of Vision and now simply called BT TV, now has a new EPG. Finally with some more proper numbers. You can view them on ***********.
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reshuffle now happened.
channel numbers now identical to youview |
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Yeah definitely the worst EPG. But lemme correct you, Sky Sports has left DTT (41 and 42 refer to the DTT numbers).