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The name "BBC 1 SCOT HD" looks a bit tight-fisted. What is the cost of four more characters?
On the Freesat Network, for service types 1, 2 and 25, we have service name lengths as follows:
3 of length 2
11 of length 3
11 of length 4
12 of length 5
9 of length 6
8 of length 7
21 of length 8
14 of length 9
22 of length 10
28 of length 11
24 of length 12
15 of length 13
30 of length 14
It would appear that Freesat have restricted service name lengths to a maximum of fourteen characters.
On the ASTRA Network, for service types 1, 2 and 25, we have:
1 of length 0
7 of length 2
25 of length 3
56 of length 4
30 of length 5
37 of length 6
50 of length 7
51 of length 8
58 of length 9
69 of length 10
70 of length 11
79 of length 12
55 of length 13
57 of length 14
17 of length 15
2 of length 16
It would appear that BSkyB have restricted these service name lengths to a maximum of sixteen characters.
However, if all service types are allowed, much longer names occur, the longest being "Sky News Active iText Quad" at 26 characters.
Note: The usual SERVICE TYPES are -
1 digital television service
2 digital radio sound service
12 data broadcast service
25 advanced codec HD digital television
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There were some changes to Freesat today.
CHANGED:
"Men & Movies" renamed to "more>movies"
NEW:
"The Active Ch"
This service, unusually, does not have the Freesat Streams mapped to it (yet).
The service presently has an empty Flags-LCN-Region descriptor so is not yet available on a Freesat box (in Freesat mode). It does have full Freesat EIT Schedule data.
There is a description (Huffman-coded B2 descriptor in the ASTRA SDT) for this service:
"LA Muscle brings you sport, fitness, health and general well-being programming. Helping you stay in shape with our yoga, dance and training classes. We are behind the scenes at major fitness events."
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On Freesat we have:
950 to 967 all BBC 1 SD regions
968 BBC 2 England
969 BBC 2 NI
970 BBC 2 Scotland
971 BBC 2 Wales
972 BBC One HD (Northern Ireland only)
973 -
974 Channel 4
975 Channel 4 + 1
976 -
977 ITV1 London
978-998 are unused
Currently on test:
980 BBC 1 SCOT HD
981 BBC 1 WALES HD
Logic dictates:
978 BBC 1 ENG HD
979 BBC 1 NI HD
980 BBC 1 SCOT HD
981 BBC 1 WALES HD
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Mike Dimmick:
10936V is not stat-muxed.
3855 (STV HD ): 5.158 Mb/s
ITV HD (3851) : 9.857 Mb/s
ITV HD (3852) : 9.857 Mb/s
Star Plus HD : 10.000 Mb/s
These are not on Freesat:
10936V 23000 8/9 DVB-S2 QPSK
ITV1 HD (3851 South East - encryption flag is set)
ITV1 HD (3852 Midwest)
10994H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK
ITV1 Mer N (12101)
ITV1 Anglia W (12110)
ITV1 Yorks E (12120)
ITV1 Central SW (12140)
ITV1+1 (12165 YTV+1)
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Travel Channel on 405 and VIVA on 507 were added to the Freesat test region on 19-03-2013.
They are not (yet) available to the ordinary Freesat user (and VIVA is still encrypted).
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Seeing a few reports of Freesat boxes not finding VIVA.
When VIVA was added on the 19th March, the service list descriptor was missing from bouquets "Scotland SD" and "Northern Ireland SD" on transport stream 2010, the one VIVA is on; it is still missing. As per the bouquet names, this should only affect SD boxes in those regions.
"Youtube" was added yesterday to the G2 bouquets but is not yet available to Freesat users because regional data and channel numbers have yet to be assigned.
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Added to the Freesat test region today:
518 Kiss
519 The Box
521 Smashhits
523 Kerrang!
The Freesat Streams were mapped to those services yesterday.
A new HD channel, "8900", appeared yesterday on 11023H 23000 2/3 DVB-S2 8PSK, the transponder with BBC 1 Scotland HD and BBC 1 Wales HD on it.
"8900" is encrypted and has the Freesat Streams mapped to it.
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Wednesday 9 January 2013 5:49PM
BBC 1 SCOT HD (8901) LCN 980
BBC 1 WALES HD (8911) LCN 981
were added to Freesat on 3 Jan.
At present they are only available on a Freesat box by entering a unique postcode which maps to a Freesat Test Region.