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Old 02-03-2011, 12:30
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LCN725 Premier Radio is now live on Mux D / Arq B.
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Old 02-03-2011, 13:53
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LCN306 Channel Zero is now live on Mux D. Null packets are 130kbps.

The old version on Mux C has been removed completely.
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Old 02-03-2011, 13:58
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LCN306 Channel Zero is now live on Mux D. Null packets are 130kbps.
Thanks for confirming this ray.

No equipment here that can access channel zero so I could not post about it myself. The only thing I could see was the placeholder.

Its looks like they are trying to scrape every scrap they can can out of MUX D

I was looking at Russia today on MUX D a few days ago and it was blocky picture then.

I wonder why they are moving these 2 items from MUX C when clearly they managed to get the 8th stream in while these where still there.
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Old 02-03-2011, 14:27
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Does anyone even know what Channel Zero is?
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Old 02-03-2011, 14:29
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Does anyone even know what Channel Zero is?
Its an interactive service that is only available on certain set top boxes from tesco.
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Old 02-03-2011, 14:32
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Thanks for confirming this ray.

No equipment here that can access channel zero so I could not post about it myself. The only thing I could see was the placeholder.

Its looks like they are trying to scrape every scrap they can can out of MUX D

I was looking at Russia today on MUX D a few days ago and it was blocky picture then.

I wonder why they are moving these 2 items from MUX C when clearly they managed to get the 8th stream in while these where still there.
$ky still owns 75% of Mux C so Arqiva earns more by putting as much as possible on its Mux D. AFAIKT null packets of 130kbps is the absolute minimum. There are 3 services with secondary audios of 64kbps when audio description is available. They are Yesterday, Film4 and ITV4. If all were switched on together there would be no null packets at all; in fact there would be a deficit. So what they do is switch off the 64kbps stream after each sentence is spoken and only switch it back on when there are words to be said. That lowers the average audio description bitrate to 32 kbps or lower. So Mux D is now absolutely full and Mux C has maybe 300kbps of null packets now.

They can always remove the red button stream of 47kbps from 4Music if they get desperate. Also I think LCN716 Q will close shortly as it has done on DAB and satellite. Both of those would release about 200kbps on Mux D.

So the question is will CNN be timesharing with Gems TV?
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Old 02-03-2011, 18:06
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Its an interactive service that is only available on certain set top boxes from tesco.
Used one while I was on holiday. Pretty boring. It appears, not surprisingly, on channel 0.
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Old 02-03-2011, 19:48
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edit: Sorry, didn't realise I was posting in the Changelog. Please can people post in the discussion threads if they are just chatting about changes, otherwise we get replies and they escalate out of control, making the changelog aspect useless

I have moved my reply to the GemsTV thread - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...1#post48508388
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Old 02-03-2011, 22:07
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Its an interactive service that is only available on certain set top boxes from tesco.
I bought my freeview box from Comet and I picked up Channel Zero too.
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Old 02-03-2011, 22:24
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More discussion on Channel Zero's changes at: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1444096

(could loggers please link to a discussion thread where possible, thank you - see also post 733)
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Old 07-03-2011, 09:00
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Fiver rebrand to 5* so far has happened on screen.

No sign of any change to the MUX yet to issue the rename to LCN 30.
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Old 07-03-2011, 12:00
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FIVEUSA rebrand to 5USA so far has happened on screen.

No sign of any change to the MUX yet to issue the rename to LCN 31.
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Old 07-03-2011, 12:15
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LCN 30 FIVER has been relabeled 5*
LCN 31 FIVEUSA has been relabeled 5 USA

Rescan of MUX A required.
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Old 09-03-2011, 19:18
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Forgot to mention the other day the off air MEHG graphics for LCN 30 and LCN 31 have been updated they are very basic and do not mention the hours of broadcast. In fact all they do show is a 5* and 5USA logo on there respective channels.
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Old 10-03-2011, 14:58
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Psychic TV appears today on LCN32 Big Deal from 8pm to 3am.

Source: Freeview EPG

Discussion here http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1447378
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Old 15-03-2011, 05:16
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Channel 93 on freeview has changed the graphics off screen to a white colour and on the now&next listings it says its no longer avaliable.
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Old 15-03-2011, 10:18
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Channel 93 on freeview has changed the graphics off screen to a white colour and on the now&next listings it says its no longer avaliable.
We know. We in the middle of discussing this in the top up tv forum.
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Old 15-03-2011, 10:19
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Daystar went live at 5am today. Hours of broadcast is 5am-8am.

Most likely timeshare is dave ja vu stream.
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Old 15-03-2011, 10:39
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Most likely timeshare is dave ja vu stream.
Along with Blue Kiss.
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Old 15-03-2011, 10:43
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Along with Blue Kiss.
And that would be why I said Dave Ja Vu Stream

As it has more then one item on there I say the thing with the most hours then stream so people are aware what stream it was on.

I was referring to the whole stream. Not select timeshares.
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Old 15-03-2011, 11:31
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We know. We in the middle of discussing this in the top up tv forum.
Always a good practice to link to relevant threads to avoid this thread going off topic. Incidentally the ch 93 issue deserves being logged here if it hasn't been so already, without being dismissed by a "we know" remark.

Ch 93 change, part of the Changes afoot March 2011 thread over in the Top Up TV forum
Link -> http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1448112

Daystar on Channel 47 Discussion Thread
Link -> http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1443293
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Old 15-03-2011, 11:31
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And that would be why I said Dave Ja Vu Stream
Yes, I was just checking you were alert.
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Old 15-03-2011, 11:36
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Always a good practice to link to relevant threads to avoid this thread going off topic. Incidentally the ch 93 issue deserves being logged here if it hasn't been so already, without being dismissed by a "we know" remark.


At the moment though nothing has changed other then the off air MHEG. The stream is still the same at the minute and the service label. So is a change of off air MHEG really a significant enough change for the changelog? IMO No.
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Old 15-03-2011, 11:53
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At the moment though nothing has changed other then the off air MHEG. The stream is still the same at the minute and the service label. So is a change of off air MHEG really a significant enough change for the changelog? IMO No.
Which is blantantly hypocritical, bearing in mind the author of posts #687 and #701 of this very thread.

We digress and return to logging changes, which may include MHEG changes and these changes may be freely reported by members without being made inferior in the spirit of DS Community Guidelines.
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Old 15-03-2011, 11:57
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Which is blantantly hypocritical, bearing in mind the author of posts #687 and #701 of this very thread.

We digress and return to logging changes, which may include MHEG changes and these changes may be reported by members other than Daniel2015:
Charming. And if you had bothered to take the time to read other posts I got shot down for that by other members. Some may have even been erased as A lot of recent posts out of here have.

But what was crystal clear is members here did not consider off air MHEG changes significant enough to report in the change log.

So its not as you describe. You just don't have your facts straight.
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