Sky starting to change transponders to DVB-S2

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fe31nz

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#248034 7-Mar-2019 23:44

A couple of days ago, my MythTV box stopped recording from the History Channel on Sky. After some digging, I found that the transponder on 12546 has been changed from DVB-S to DVB-S2, so I updated my settings today and History is working again. I do not watch any of the other channels on that transponder. I do have some History channel recordings made a little before the change and by comparing them I can see that it seems that they have increased the bit rate for History a bit, but not made it HD. It is still 1280x720 H.264. Here is the full list of channels from a new scan of 12546 today:

SKY Sport 1

SKY ARTS

HISTORY

SKY BOX SETS

Fox News

SKY Sport 4

Food Network

Auxiliary

Licence Included

Ad Tracks - All

Blues

FM 104.2

Real Good Life

New Supremo

SoHo2

It seems to just be the same channels as before, and there is no change I can see in any of the stream PIDs. I am guessing that they will be intending to make the Arts channel HD, but as I do not subscribe to that I can not check if that has happened.

I am hoping that what we will see now is that progressively all the DVB-S transponders will change to DVB-S2.

Spyware

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#2193314 8-Mar-2019 06:15

720 x 576 would be more like it.

JREkiwi

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#2193331 8-Mar-2019 07:39

Thanks for the confirmation. I noticed it a couple of days ago and assumed it was a change to DVB-S2, but couldn't get anything on a scan at the time and as no-one else had mentioned it, I thought I might have an issue with my machine.

Tried another scan this morning and my machine is seeing it as DVB-S2 😂

JREkiwi

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#2196781 12-Mar-2019 21:08

12608 has switched over now.

John

fe31nz

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#2196846 12-Mar-2019 23:57

Actually, it is not just that 12608 has switched to DVB-S2 today. It is all of these four transponders:

12581
12608
12644
12671

fe31nz

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#2210440 4-Apr-2019 00:36

Another four transponders have changed to DVB-S2 today: 12394 12421 12707 12734. So by my count, that leaves just one DVB-S transponder: 12519. Which is the one they broadcast Prime and their other free-to-air channels on for Freeview, so it will be staying DVB-S for compatibility with all the Freeview DVB-S boxes out there.

rlevis

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#2210447 4-Apr-2019 01:55

I believe Freeview have their own transponder and don't offer any channels in HD. The Sky HD "free to air" channels are all encrypted and only available on Sky receivers.

Spyware

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#2210449 4-Apr-2019 04:01

Sky serves Prime, Prime+1, Bravo+1 and The Edge off 12519.

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Goosey

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#2210466 4-Apr-2019 06:57

I got an email telling I'd need to rebook series links on the channels you have listed above.

If you also looked at the EPG, it also told you.

I think I saw some adverts too.....

DjShadow

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#2211042 5-Apr-2019 00:31

Sounds like this would be a good time for Freeview to go ahead with the idea of going to DVB-S2.

Grab one of Sky's old transponders (once they release it) and launch HD versions of 1, 2, 3 and Maori (and anything else if they can fit it) then give the public a year or two to upgrade.

Then Sky can drop their own version of TV 1,2 and 3 HD freeing up even more room for them

rlevis

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#2211050 5-Apr-2019 01:45

That would be ideal but Freeview won't want the extra cost.

Apsattv

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#2211052 5-Apr-2019 05:12

I asked the new CEO of Sky about TV1/2/3 HD and Prime HD fta.. last week. You know when they were in the media about how they had stopped listening to the public?

Guess what?

No reply after 1 week..............