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Tuesday 8 December 2015 2:27PM

Briantist: Yes, they are FTA, but the encryption flags are still set in the ASTRA SDT.

YESTERDAY is missing from the 'no-card' bouquet 'BSkyB Bouquet'

BOUQUETKEY BOUQUETNAME
100000000000000 BSkyB Bouquet
010000000000000 BSkyB Bouquet 1 - DTH England
001000000000000 BSkyB Bouquet 2 - DTH Scotland
000100000000000 BSkyB Bouquet 3 - DTH Wales
000010000000000 BSkyB Bouquet 4 - DTH Other
000001000000000 BSkyB Bouquet 5 - HD England
000000100000000 BSkyB Bouquet 6 - HD Scotland
000000010000000 BSkyB Bouquet 7 - HD Wales
000000001000000 BSkyB Bouquet 8 - HD Other
000000000100000 BSkyB Bouquet 9 - Commercial England
000000000010000 BSkyB Bouquet 10 - Commercial Scotland
000000000001000 BSkyB Bouquet 11 - Commercial Wales
000000000000100 BSkyB Bouquet 12 - Commercial Other
000000000000010 BSkyB Bouquet 13 - Test
000000000000001 BSkyB Bouquet 14 - Interactive Test

011111111000011 YESTERDAY

(No box here at all - just a PCIE sat card)

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J
All free TV channels in the UK
Tuesday 8 December 2015 3:11PM

Scrambled but flagged as FTA:
AMC from BT

FTA but flagged as Scrambled:
PBS America
Drama
Really
YESTERDAY

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Briantist: 'Yesterday' will be unavailable in the case where the 'no-card' bouquet is in use. Haven't got a working sky box at present, so can't check, but, ages ago, I tried pulling the card out and power cycling, in an unsuccessful attempt to rid the box of its regionalisation, the objective being to get it to use the 'no-card' bouquet.

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J
All free TV channels in the UK
Tuesday 8 December 2015 6:09PM

jb38: 538 YESTERDAY+1 is FTV and needs a card to decrypt it.

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jb38: Thanks. Good to have that verified.

Another anomaly is the ITV region on 103 being Central West. ITV London should be available for Audio Description. It is available in all the regions on 973 for that reason, but appears to be absent on this bouquet.








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Kevin White: Probably something switching on or off and causing a spark. The boiler is a likely culprit.

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Steve Leah: From google: "The Sense 51-42 LCD TV has ... built in DVB Freeview and analogue TV tuner."

You need to select Digital TV before scanning as Analogue TV is no longer transmitted.

A factory-reset or 'First Time Installation' may be appropriate.

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J
All free TV channels in the UK
Tuesday 8 December 2015 10:08PM

FTA ASTRA Diffs:

52290 ('Bike Channel') is put on test.

Comparing files List ASTRA 07-12-2015 15 59.txt and List ASTRA 08-12-2015 13 41.txt

************************ CHANGED ************************

SERVICE NAME TYPE EPGID SID TSID ONID FREQ.P ENC EIT PROVIDER BOUQUETS LCN

Promoted to BAT
52290 1 0 52290 2109 2 11307H 0 1 BSkyB 000000000000000
52290 1 5229 52290 2109 2 11307H 0 1 BSkyB 000000000000010 1010

52290 is currently showing a static picture of someone riding a bike on a beach, overlaid with the word 'BIKE', in large capitals.

52290 is to be found on 11307H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK



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J
All free TV channels in the UK
Thursday 10 December 2015 3:45PM

Bike launches on BSkyB channel 464

BSkyB info: The first channel completely dedicated to the bicycle world

Bike is on 11307.00 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S

Comparing files List ASTRA 10-12-2015 13 00.txt and List ASTRA 10-12-2015 15 27.txt


************************ CHANGED ************************

SERVICE NAME TYPE EPGID SID TSID ONID FREQ.P ENC EIT PROVIDER BOUQUETS LCN

Renamed, Bouquet Change, LCN Change
52290 1 5229 52290 2109 2 11307H 0 1 BSkyB 000000000000010 1010
Bike 1 5229 52290 2109 2 11307H 0 1 BSkyB 111111111111111 464


Removed from the ASTRA NIT: 11538.00 V 23000 2/3 DVB-S2 0.25 8PSK 028.2E :TSID = 2094

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J
All free TV channels in the UK
Friday 11 December 2015 6:23PM

Looks like more ITV HD services are on the way:

Comparing files List ASTRA 11-12-2015 13 00.txt and List ASTRA 11-12-2015 16 29.txt


************************ NEW ************************

SERVICE NAME TYPE EPGID SID TSID ONID FREQ.P ENC EIT PROVIDER BOUQUETS LCN
10002 25 1024 10002 2049 2 10832H 0 1 BSkyB 000000000000011 1184
10001 25 1027 10001 2049 2 10832H 0 1 BSkyB 000000000000011 1185
20750 25 1043 20750 2063 2 11053H 0 1 BSkyB 000000000000011 1186
21040 25 1044 21040 2066 2 11097V 0 1 BSkyB 000000000000011 1187
21010 25 1045 21010 2066 2 11097V 0 1 BSkyB 000000000000011 1188

Of the five, only the two on 11097V are running at present.

15 second bitrate for 11097V
max min avg service_name
12.542 04.323 08.615 ITV HD (21000)
12.188 05.393 08.097 21040
10.539 05.407 08.605 ITV HD (21020)
15.503 05.699 08.752 ITV HD (21030)
11.024 04.935 08.594 21010
03.396 01.250 02.493 Null Packets
06.163 03.998 04.926 All Other Streams
50.082 50.082 50.082 TS Bitrate

15 second bitrate for 11053H
max min avg service_name
10.393 01.068 06.025 ITV2 HD [ENC]
17.469 08.928 12.932 ITV4 HD [ENC]
16.249 03.368 05.629 ITV Wales HD
12.897 03.093 09.244 ITV HD
19.201 06.695 12.018 Null Packets
05.430 03.259 04.235 All Other Streams
50.083 50.083 50.083 TS Bitrate

10832H is empty.


NIT Diffs:
Comparing ASTRA 11-12-2015 13 00.txt and ASTRA 11-12-2015 16 29.txt

Changed:
10832.25 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2049 --> 10832.25 H 23000 5/6 DVB-S2 QPSK 0.25 028.2E :TSID = 2049


The ASTRA NIT is wrong for 10832H. All three transponders have the same configuration:

10832.25 H 23000 3/4 DVB-S2 8PSK 0.25
11052.75 H 23000 3/4 DVB-S2 8PSK 0.25
11097.00 V 23000 3/4 DVB-S2 8PSK 0.25

Reality check:
Comparing BlindScan 16:09 9/12/2015 and 16:54 10/12/2015

Changed:
10832 H 22000 3/4 QPSK DVB-S2 0.25 Pilot on --> 10832 H 23000 3/4 8PSK DVB-S2 0.25 Pilot on


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