SBS Tasmania Off Air on Optus D1

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6 posts

Wannabe Geek

#623015 10-May-2012 16:57

Dammit! Humble pie apologies for stretching the truth.
That's what comes of watching wide-screen tv for too long.

The key points if it fell off the end of your frame were:

1. The sat feed on one of the networks was lease only as a backup.
2. Apparently GTV-9 had moved operations at the beginning of the year to central Melbourne.
3. The new fibre feed to their transmission site has now been completed.
4. The satellite feed was costing SBS too much and the government is cost cutting.
5. SBS is now fibre fed to Tasmania from Melbourne with the ABC mux.
6. The lost sat feed is confirmed as permanent (it has disappeared on the odd occassion in the past).

Q1. What are the options if any and are there any alternative feeds?
Q2. Would a VAST receiver/card work here in NZ or are the location specific?

allan

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Uber Geek

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#623202 10-May-2012 21:00

Pwned: Oh no... SBS 1 and 2 are my favorite channels on Freeview. Love all their shows. Dateline, Coast, European movies, football games, Luke Nguyen, and other cooking shows, and of course the world news. Awww. Gutted!

Luke Nguyen is on Choice TV tonight 8:30 to 9:00pm

xarqi

727 posts

Ultimate Geek

#623258 10-May-2012 22:32

allan:
Pwned: Oh no... SBS 1 and 2 are my favorite channels on Freeview. Love all their shows. Dateline, Coast, European movies, football games, Luke Nguyen, and other cooking shows, and of course the world news. Awww. Gutted!

Luke Nguyen is on Choice TV tonight 8:30 to 9:00pm

That's just adding insult to injury. Choice TV is not available from Optus D1.

SuitedScooter

8 posts

Wannabe Geek

#623345 11-May-2012 08:17

"Suitedscooter" ... now that is a name from the past !
are you the same person who had a web page for a certain tv tuner with a certain chip on it ?

Hehe.... the one and only !!
Glad that I am still mildy famous. Maybe not quite as famous as L&P but near enough :)

GeekGuy

590 posts

Ultimate Geek

#623365 11-May-2012 09:00

World famous in New Zealand ... eh !

Selwyn

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Wannabe Geek

#623501 11-May-2012 12:37

I wonder if I did some deep scallop dredging between Aus and Tasmania, whether SBS would start up again :-)

LouisP

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Wannabe Geek

#624162 12-May-2012 22:20

Here's what I found today on www.stuff.co.nz

"Adding insult to Kiwi TV connoisseurs' injury is the recent closure of a satellite loophole which enabled us to watch the two SBS channels here via a correctly configured Freeview or Sky decoder.SBS's availability here was not widely known but installers have been known to tune the station in and internet forums listed instructions for anyone keen to do a DIY job.

However Optus has shut off the signal from its D1 satellite which carries New Zealand's satellite frequencies."
Complete article:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/6905714/The-media-week-that-was

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LouisP

3 posts

Wannabe Geek

#624166 12-May-2012 22:22

Sorry. I forgot the most important part of the article:

"Considering the depth of content - lifestyle, documentary, sport - on SBS, it wouldn't be surprising if a New Zealand broadcaster had dropped a word to either SBS or Optus about their signal leakage across the Tasman."

mthredgo

80 posts

Master Geek

#624169 12-May-2012 22:46

LouisP: Sorry. I forgot the most important part of the article:

"Considering the depth of content - lifestyle, documentary, sport - on SBS, it wouldn't be surprising if a New Zealand broadcaster had dropped a word to either SBS or Optus about their signal leakage across the Tasman."

Yeah their pleading ignorance is just a little suspicious in my opinion:
http://extra-channels.com/2012/05/12/so-who-really-pulled-the-plug-on-sbs-on-optus-d1/

pedrobabar

1 post

Wannabe Geek

#624534 13-May-2012 21:37

I just looked here <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Broadcasting_Service>. The un-encrypted SBS transmission ended on 8 May, instead the service is being offered by ground-based cable.

It was too good to last.

SuitedScooter

8 posts

Wannabe Geek

#624570 13-May-2012 22:38

GeekGuy: World famous in New Zealand ... eh !

Only cos I hosted a website showing people how to decode SkyTV UHF back in the day and got myself in a little trouble with the powers. Luckily, nothing came of it and I lived happily ever after (even though my tutorial still lives online).

I'm now trying to figure a way that I can stream a STB (in Australia) with good compression via a linux box and Static IP to us here in NZ using some kind of script to create a torrent file. Just haven't figured out the best way.

Think AppleTV or the like.

Based on equipment costs, stability of Linus, cheap broadband and a desire to get SBS back, it must be possible. And I'm even happy to meet the costs.

Any thoughts? Any ideas? Any contacts? (I have one that could/would host a box in Oz)(I hope).

Kim DotCom?

Lets hope I don't get "famous" again.

GeekGuy

590 posts

Ultimate Geek

#624582 13-May-2012 23:09

Something like these ?
http://www.myvulkano.com/products.html

tims

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Master Geek

#624667 14-May-2012 09:44

Hi

Following on from info given earlier in this thread, I sent a email to jayx.co.nz about other satellite fed options to receive SBS; explaining that I lived in Central Otago and was receiving SBS on my Sky dish until SBS disabled it.

They came back with the following info (below) which seemed to suggest I could use my existing sky dish but with a new satellite rx.

**********
"> Good morning,
>
> If your sky dish has either of these lnbf's (dual) then the primary is fixed on
> Optus D1 and the offset is fixed on Optus C1 .

> The switching s done by adding a 22Khz tone generated inside the satellite
> receiver .
>
> You do however require a satellite receiver which accepts a suitable smart
> card.
>
> There are two versions
>
> Ultraplus 900HD $445.00
> Ultra Plus 780 $305.00
>
>
> Regards
***********

I then asked:

**********
"Just to check I understand; a SBS signal is available (to me) on Optus C1 but I will need (if I have the right lnb on my Sky dish) one of the UltraPlus RX below to pick it up - is this correct?
Also (if the above is correct), where do I get a suitable smart card for the Rx'ers - do you sell these as well?

Thanks"
***********

They replied:

**********
"Photo is a dual LNBF which will switch to C1 when the 22KHz switch is selected at the receiver . both ultra plus options will come tuned for all channels .
The regional’s are as per the chart .

12407 V
tp 3

DVB-S
SR 30000
FEC 2/3
Tune 156 promo

SBS One South East

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

SBS One Perth

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

Optus Business TV 1

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

7 Central

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

SBS One Brisbane

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

SBS Radio Brisbane FM

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

Rock Radio
Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

Coles

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

RadioTAB

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

National Indigenous Radio Service

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

RPH Australia

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

BBC World Service

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

CBAA

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

SBS Radio South East FM

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

SBS Radio Darwin FM

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

Big W Radio

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

UCB Australia

Irdeto 1
Irdeto 2

SBS Radio Perth FM

******************

Sorry, can't copy the chart above properly to this post, but what about the info they have supplied - seems to indicate that I can get SBS again with my existing sky dish using either of the Sat Rx (Ultraplus 900HD $445.00 or Ultra Plus 780 $305.00) and both rx'ers will come pre-tuned with the services in the chart above? Is this correct?

Thanks

SuitedScooter:
GeekGuy: World famous in New Zealand ... eh !

Only cos I hosted a website showing people how to decode SkyTV UHF back in the day and got myself in a little trouble with the powers. Luckily, nothing came of it and I lived happily ever after (even though my tutorial still lives online).

I'm now trying to figure a way that I can stream a STB (in Australia) with good compression via a linux box and Static IP to us here in NZ using some kind of script to create a torrent file. Just haven't figured out the best way.

Think AppleTV or the like.

Based on equipment costs, stability of Linus, cheap broadband and a desire to get SBS back, it must be possible. And I'm even happy to meet the costs.

Any thoughts? Any ideas? Any contacts? (I have one that could/would host a box in Oz)(I hope).

Kim DotCom?

Lets hope I don't get "famous" again.

thekiwi

295 posts

Ultimate Geek

#624669 14-May-2012 09:47

From what I see they say "Pretuned", but havent committed on the Card aspect.

injuised

256 posts

Ultimate Geek

#624670 14-May-2012 09:53

FYI: SBS on C1 will be turned off in 18 months

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