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Old 27-01-2010, 12:45
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All the decent fta stuff at 28.5/28.2 is already on the epg.
Sky News
oMusic
Community
Film24
BBC News multiscreen
Scuzz
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Old 27-01-2010, 12:51
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What fta channels not already on the epg would you like to see there ?. All the decent fta stuff at 28.5/28.2 is already on the epg.
Sky News and LBC Radio/Heart 106.2 are favourites of mine which I'd like to see on Freesat. When I had Sky, I quite often listened to them whilst other stuff recorded.
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Old 27-01-2010, 14:32
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Not much chance of Sky News joining, though I would expect CNBC to.
All new channels help keep the service running, saying that lowering the EPG price would increase the number of channels on Freesat. £30,000 a year is a lot of money, for a small satellite service.
If I were head of Freesat, I would reduce the EPG cost by half for both TV & radio. This would attract far more channels and boost Freesat sales.

As a PSB platform, what about some space for local or community services?
BBC local radio could also be made available.

As for more quality channels, it is time the PSBs took the plunge and changed to DVB-S2 MPEG 4, this would create a lot of space on Astra 2D.
Freesat should not sell MPEG2 only receivers, this could help the move to DVB-S2 and MPEG4. Just think how many SD channels you could place on a transponder using DVB-S2 with MPEG 4!
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Old 27-01-2010, 14:49
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Lack of space is not going to be a problem once Astra 2E is orbited in 2012ish.
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Old 27-01-2010, 14:57
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Not much chance of Sky News joining, though I would expect CNBC to.
All new channels help keep the service running, saying that lowering the EPG price would increase the number of channels on Freesat. £30,000 a year is a lot of money, for a small satellite service.
If I were head of Freesat, I would reduce the EPG cost by half for both TV & radio. This would attract far more channels and boost Freesat sales.

As a PSB platform, what about some space for local or community services?
BBC local radio could also be made available.

As for more quality channels, it is time the PSBs took the plunge and changed to DVB-S2 MPEG 4, this would create a lot of space on Astra 2D.
Freesat should not sell MPEG2 only receivers, this could help the move to DVB-S2 and MPEG4. Just think how many SD channels you could place on a transponder using DVB-S2 with MPEG 4!
Freesat don't sell anything other than the epg. The fact that only 1 manufacturer makes SD boxes and omits a S2 tuner is entirely down to the individual maker. They can't force anyone to transmit anything thats down to the broadcasters not Freesat.

What about the thousands and thousands of free to air SD and HD boxes only having DVB-S tuners, you can't expect SD broadcasters in particular to disenfranchise such a large slice of their audience.
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Old 27-01-2010, 19:06
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Because one doesn't wish a saturation of God channels on tv does not make them non christian or non any religious faith.
I hardley think that the current 3 Christian TV channels on freesat is anywhere aproaching saturation!
Equally because one doesn't wish to be saturated with shopping channels doesn't mean they are adverse to shopping.You probably can't see that in the same way you could only make reference to christianity!!
although shopping channels do serve a purpose for some!
Obviously you couldnt read that the first time around!
Yes it is a waste of space because if it had stayed in non freesat mode it would not have been taking an epg slot.
And what would the limit of EPG slots be on freesat?
I think that the £30,000- per annum these religious bodies spend to be on the epg would be better spent on many justifiable causes around the world'AMEN
Christian bodies spend many millions more every year distributing clothing to those who have none, feeding the hungry, giving a home to orphans, providing funding for those who need medical treatment but cannot afford it........

need I go on!

AMEN!
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Old 29-01-2010, 11:43
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Well on the subject of DVB-S2 MPEG4, it looks like Sky will lead the way again.
They are now offering HD receivers as standard from now on.
See: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...-standard.html

This makes ecconomic sense, as they can save a lot of many on transponder rental and increase their HD content and offer more channels. The rest will follow in the next few years.
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Old 29-01-2010, 13:13
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Genesis TV brilliant!! UCB next, here's hoping
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Old 29-01-2010, 13:40
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Genesis TV brilliant!! UCB next, here's hoping
Genesis TV ?. Phil Collins is a bit of old hat nowadays.
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Old 29-01-2010, 15:12
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Genesis TV ?. Phil Collins is a bit of old hat nowadays.
It's older hat than that - it's run by one of the Baron Knights.
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Old 30-01-2010, 18:30
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£30,000 a year is a lot of money, for a small satellite service.
£30,000 a year to reach near on a million homes, not a lot of money in my opinion...

It's a heck of a lot less than what NTL were charging (before merging with Telewest) - when they had little over a million customers.
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Old 04-02-2010, 06:22
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According to DTG software updates are due from today to take the Foxsat HD/HDR v1.00.26/v1.00.13. No Details as yet on the Humax Site as to what these updates fix. We'll all have to wait until after 0900 to find out.
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Old 04-02-2010, 11:45
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according to hummy

Version 1.00.26 will be OTA 4/5 Feb 2010.

Resolves issues with loss of signal on High-band Vertical channels, and MHEG fixes for iplayer.
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Old 04-02-2010, 16:07
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£30,000 a year to reach near on a million homes, not a lot of money in my opinion...

It's a heck of a lot less than what NTL were charging (before merging with Telewest) - when they had little over a million customers.
Have you forgotten uplink and transponder costs? Even if you are on the $ky EPG, it has to be taken into account.
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Old 04-02-2010, 16:22
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Can we please keep this thread to being just the Changelog?
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Old 04-02-2010, 16:31
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According to DTG software updates are due from today to take the Foxsat HD/HDR v1.00.26/v1.00.13. No Details as yet on the Humax Site as to what these updates fix. We'll all have to wait until after 0900 to find out.
Took the Automatic Upgrade option - all done in around 20 minutes
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Old 04-02-2010, 16:46
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Can we please keep this thread to being just the Changelog?
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This is a thread for changes in channels etc, please don't use for general Freesat conversation and specific software updates.
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Old 14-02-2010, 19:23
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The Freesat Information Channel is now active by pressing the red button. Not a great deal on there, but at least it is now active.
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Old 14-02-2010, 19:25
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The Freesat Information Channel is now active by pressing the red button. Not a great deal on there, but at least it is now active.
It's so basic, it is really something that you would have expected from launch, not a big who-har of coming soon etc!
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Old 22-02-2010, 13:32
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O
oMusic seems to have gone. Shame really.
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Old 22-02-2010, 13:36
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O
oMusic seems to have gone. Shame really.
oMusic hasn't ever been on the freesat epg
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Old 22-02-2010, 13:39
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Yes sorry about that. It was on the satellite scan choice on my Panasonic pvr.
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Old 23-02-2010, 11:05
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my hdr has just done an auto rescan and no cnbc added, just a 'channel change' ...strange
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Old 23-02-2010, 13:44
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CNBC on 210 here
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Old 23-02-2010, 13:55
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CNBC on 210 here
Barry on Hummy.org reported an earlier change that he could not find and differences. A later update confirms cnbc on Ch 210 (11261 H) and a transponder change to 402 Information TV 12523 H to 12623 H (which is odd as I can't find this transponder at 28.2/28.5 on Kingofsat. I can't investigate at the moment as the hdr is recording.
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