[mythtvnz] SBS on Optus D1

[Steve Hodge]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Simon Green <simon at simongreen.name> wrote:

> 2009/7/30 Rama Madhusudhan <mrama at orcon.net.nz>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone noticed this or tried?
>> http://www.freeviewshop.co.nz/forum/index.php/topic,1011.0.html
>
>
> Haven't tried it (I live in Australia so get SBS anyway!) Two things I'll
> point out to help you:
>
> SBS 3 and SBS4 are just rebroadcasts of SBS One. The only HD content that
> SBS One HD has ever shown in the Ashes cricket. Everything else is just
> upscaled from the SD channel (including all local content).
>
> SBS broadcast in the vertical polarity, while Freeview and Sky Digital are
> horizontal. This means that you won't be able to use the same dish to watch
> SBS and a NZ satellite channel at the same time.
>

AFAICT from http://www.lyngsat.com/optusd1.html SBS is only on the Oz beams
so you'll also need a pretty big dish - it's not going to work with a Sky
dish.

Cheers,
Steve
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