IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR TV3, FOUR, TV3+1 AND C4 VIEWERS USING FREEVIEW

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#689068 20-Sep-2012 20:05

Impression I got when I read it is the PIDs are changing around so Sky will drop their feed of FOUR and point all Sky Boxes to the one on the Freeview Transponder.
Similar thing I believe happened when TVNZ 6 and 7 joined Sky

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#689088 20-Sep-2012 20:44

It is a TiVo issue: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=114&topicid=109501

I think mediaworks should have made sure things like this wouldn't of broken.

On the C4 side, why does it need to be unencrypted in your opinion? C4 is already available on Freeview Sat, so why do you need another, identical, highly compressed version?

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#689112 20-Sep-2012 21:05

naggyman: C4 is already available on Freeview Sat, so why do you need another, identical, highly compressed version?

Because the announcement has said that it will be (for an unknown period of time) removed from the Freeview Satellite product.

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#689820 22-Sep-2012 10:51

well my two boxes seem to have come through ok. all my series bookings are still in place and working as far as I can see. Am in Hamilton. DishTV T-1020 and T-1050

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#689927 22-Sep-2012 16:53

Hi, could this be the reason I haven't been able to watch any of the Mediaworks channels and why media center says no signal when trying to record something.

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#689929 22-Sep-2012 16:55

watman: Hi, could this be the reason I haven't been able to watch any of the Mediaworks channels and why media center says no signal when trying to record something.

Yes, a rescan should get everything working properly.

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#689930 22-Sep-2012 16:57

watman: Hi, could this be the reason I haven't been able to watch any of the Mediaworks channels and why media center says no signal when trying to record something.

Yip, quite likely
I came home from holiday to find no mediaworks mux on Thursday, (on a panasonic box), had to do a full retune to get things back to normal

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#689933 22-Sep-2012 17:09

naggyman:
watman: Hi, could this be the reason I haven't been able to watch any of the Mediaworks channels and why media center says no signal when trying to record something.

Yes, a rescan should get everything working properly.

Cool, but how often will I need to rescan during the duration of this upgrade/change? I did a rescan earlier yesterday afternoon and was able to watch TV for a couple of hours but later that evening it did not record the Mediaworks channels scheduled. Looking through the Media Center logs it said no signal.

Further information I use my HTPC for all my Freeview watching and use 2 USB tuners, 1 is dual tuner and the other is a single.

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#689970 22-Sep-2012 18:48

watman: Hi, could this be the reason I haven't been able to watch any of the Mediaworks channels and why media center says no signal when trying to record something.

I'm actually doing a rescan right now because it seems TV3 + 1 is gone from my lineup.

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#689975 22-Sep-2012 18:57

TV3+1 is working perfectly on my TiVo here.

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#689976 22-Sep-2012 18:58

I'm in WLG, getting signal from MT Kaukau and using a Media Center...

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#689992 22-Sep-2012 19:30

All my TVs have asked for a rescan, but were working fine without it.

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#690217 23-Sep-2012 18:01

nigelj:
naggyman: C4 is already available on Freeview Sat, so why do you need another, identical, highly compressed version?

Because the announcement has said that it will be (for an unknown period of time) removed from the Freeview Satellite product.

The problem is it cost a lot more money to TX HD via Freeview Satellite

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#690219 23-Sep-2012 18:04

naggyman: It is a TiVo issue: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=114&topicid=109501

I think mediaworks should have made sure things like this wouldn't of broken.

On the C4 side, why does it need to be unencrypted in your opinion? C4 is already available on Freeview Sat, so why do you need another, identical, highly compressed version?

You have to if its HD.

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#690221 23-Sep-2012 18:06

Mediaworks wouldn't bother upgrading c4 to HD. It may upgrade Four (I hope it does) but if Sky carried it in HD, it would be encrypted (As TVONEHD, TV2HD and TV3HD are encrypted by sky).

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