[mythtvnz] It gets worse - FreeView Bouquet is a mix of H & V

[Steven Ellis]

On Fri, February 2, 2007 4:41 pm, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Steven Ellis <steven@openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> The FreeView set-top boxes are designed to auto update using things li=
ke
>> the bouquet table in the DVB stream. I've been poking around with DVB
>> snoop and it appears that the bouquet is marked for 4 transponders. Th=
e
>> first two are the new HPol transponders for the main TV channels.
>>
>> The additional ones are two of the Sky VPol transponders, one (12519 V=
)
>> for National Radio and Concert FM, the other (12671 V) for the Sky
>> versions of TV One and TV 2.
>>
>> At the moment this is really looking like a mess, and it will probably
>> take until late April to resolve all of this
>>
>
> Yes, this is what I found when MythTV scanned. I guess it doesn't matte=
r
> if
> you've got a box which can only tune one channel. But it's a problem fo=
r
> anyone using a splitter with a single LNB.
>
> It's probably not final though - those are definitely Sky transponders,
> and
> at least in the case of 12519 the same signal is on both V and H.
>
> Btw, does anyone know who was supposed to get the V transponders Sky ar=
e
> currently using?

Those transponders were designed for services to both AU and NZ. No idea
who was planning on using them.

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