Discovery clear on Intelsat 601
Bjorn Kihlberg
on 11056h.
Even Sky One on Astra was clear for a while this morning, the only Sky
channel that didn't carry any Videocrypt information. It was
shortlasting though.
--Bjorn
Ron O'Brien
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Ray Woodward
<r...@castcall.demon.co.uk> commented :
>I thought Discovery left 601 yonks ago! replaced with the Travel show
It did leave 27.5 west, and the transponder was *eventually* used by The
Travel Channel.
However, Discovery has (for reasons unknown [at least to me]) recently
been carried in clear PAL on 601 ...
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Bjorn Kihlberg
>However, Discovery has (for reasons unknown [at least to me]) recently
>been carried in clear PAL on 601 ...
Daytime it carries TCC intermittently. At one occasion there was no
picture, only a sound carrier telling it was used for TCC Nordic
making it likely to be intended as a feed for the TCC/Discovery
package on the Thor satellite.
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John Hockenhull
>In article <415060...@castcall.demon.co.uk>, Ron O'Brien
><r...@castcall.demon.co.uk> commented :
>>I thought Discovery left 601 yonks ago! replaced with the Travel show
>It did leave 27.5 west, and the transponder was *eventually* used by The
>Travel Channel.
>However, Discovery has (for reasons unknown [at least to me]) recently
>been carried in clear PAL on 601 ...
>Ray
Pure speculation here. But it would fit.
A new cable operator (probably European Mainland) is to take The
Discovery Channel.
They want to have it available to their subscribers in time for
Christmas but haven't got the Videocrypt 2 decoding equipment in yet.
So using available BT capacity on Intelsat 601 they dual beam the
channel, in the clear, so that the cable operator can receive the
channel and make it available to their subscribers. Meanwhile they
wait for the decoding equipment to arrive.
Why Intelsat 601? Well it's generally cheaper than Eutelsat. There's
more available capacity, and it can't be reached by "standard" Astra
extension kits, only by multi sat systems.
If my speculation is correct I'd expect the broadcasts on Intelsat 601
to cease by mid January.
John Hockenhull
Justin
If that was the case I would personally take a VCII decoder all the
way to lap land. The tests are in preparation for TCC Nordic which
begins on January 1st. Why Discovery? Discovery is produced by
United Artists Programming who also work closely with TCC.
That or the boys at the London teleport picked a channel that was
already patched into the 601 Uplink.
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Kauto Huopio
601 used to be one of the channels with the best visibility. Funny,
now people in proper Astra coverage zone get CNN for free, and we who
live up in the north have to pay for a stupid
CNN/Eurosport/Discovery/MTV-package for CTV to receive CNN..
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Bjorn Kihlberg
>Oh come on! 5 GBP per minute to hire a 601 Transponder?
>If that was the case I would personally take a VCII decoder all the
>way to lap land. The tests are in preparation for TCC Nordic which
>begins on January 1st. Why Discovery? Discovery is produced by
>United Artists Programming who also work closely with TCC.
Can't see why anyone would want a VCII decoder (they are virtually
unknown here) to get TCC Nordic that has been around for a couple of
years now in D2MAC/Eurocrypt. The transmission from Intelsat 601 is
now the same as on Thor with TCC and a 1 hour shortened Discovery.
TCC Nordic may want slighly different programming than the Astra
service though with more subtitling and (yuck) dubbing for kids.
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Keith Wood
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>TCC Nordic may want slighly different programming than the Astra
>service though with more subtitling and (yuck) dubbing for kids.
Saturday (30th) they were alternating between colour bars & a full
screen logo for TCC Nordic (which included the date 1st January 1996 &
transmission times). During the logo, the first four audio carriers
had a woman's voice saying 'this is TCC Nordic, audio n - language'
where 'n' & 'language' were:
1 - Swedish
2 - Norweigan
3 - Danish
4 - Finish
On the basis of that, it would appear they intend to dub all four
languages. This seems quite reasonable for kids programmes.
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