Analog Signals From 19.2E Stopping April 30th

"Java Jive" wrote in message
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http://klar-digital.de/index_eng.php

Does anyone know if it is possible to get English commentary on any of
the FTA digital broadcasts?
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How very sad. I was still using a 19.2 analogue receiver last summer to
watch Le Tour de France on Eurosport with English audio.


As it happens, I was bored on Sunday, and I got out my old disused Sky
Digibox, plugged it in to the 22 year old 19.2 dish, and manually tuned in
Eurosport Germany and all the same German channels found on Analogue 19.2

I expect if I turn the Sky receiver on this summer, I'll make do with The
Tour de France in German as there is no way to switch the audio track on
this receiver.

It is a sad but great end of an era. For more than 20 years, analogue
satellite has carried multi-channel multi-language free to air television
across Europe, and a decade before the current standard definition digital
television arrived.

Will there be some train-spotters out there watching the technicians pull
the plug?

On 20/03/2012 21:59, Light of Aria wrote:


"Java Jive" wrote in message
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http://klar-digital.de/index_eng.php

Does anyone know if it is possible to get English commentary on any of
the FTA digital broadcasts?

You can set a preferred language for a Sly digibox but obviously the
channel needs to be transmitting in that language.

Try playing with Euronews as that has the most audio channels.

As I posted above, German Eurosport (fta) only seems to have one audio
channel.

Thanks. But I don't think any of these are FTA? Despite JGM's
perversity, I think my original question was sufficiently clear to
most people. Are there any FTA digital Eurosport channels that have
English commentary?

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:36:53 +0000, Demonic
wrote:

The Dutch Eurosport has Dutch, English, Hungarian and Cz. soundtracks ATM.
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On Tuesday, March 20th, 2012, 23:58:10h +0000, Java Jive wrote:

Are there any FTA digital Eurosport channels that have
English commentary?

You failed to specify Eurosport in your original posting.

There was no mention whatsoever of Eurosport in the link you provided,
only stations which broadcast in German --
"Das Erste, ProSieben, RTL, SAT.1 or ZDF"

How did you expect readers to know that you were referring to Eurosport?

Ah, nor did I. Sorry, my mistake.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:24:47 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

How did you expect readers to know that you were referring to Eurosport?
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On Wednesday, March 21st, 2012, at 09:59:14h +0000, Java Jive wrote:

Ah, nor did I. Sorry, my mistake.

Oh well, we all make mistakes.

Incidentally are you familiar with King Of Sat which makes it
easy to find FTA stations and which audio services they carry?

http://en.kingofsat.NET/find.php?question=eurosport&standard=All&filtre=Cl ear

OF course the big question is, when the analog services on Astra 19,2 East
are shutdown, will their transponders be re-used for DVB-s/s2?

J G Miller :
will their transponders be re-used for DVB-s/s2?

Yes.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:01:25 +0100, Miles Collins wrote:

Yes.

That is good news.

Do you have any information on what new TV and radio stations
may be moved on to these transponders?

J G Miller :
Do you have any information on what new
TV and radio stations
may be moved on to these transponders?

6 Transponders will contain German HD programmes.

The regional stations SWR, BR, NDR, WDR with their local subvariantes
will be in HD.
3sat, KiKa, Phoenix, ZDFinfo, neo & kultur are also getting a HD
channel.

Das Erste HD, ZDF HD, and arte HD are moving.

A lot of retuning to be done.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:26:19 +0100, Miles Collins wrote:

6 Transponders will contain German HD programmes.

The regional stations SWR, BR, NDR, WDR with their local subvariantes
will be in HD.

I remember hearing something about the regional broadcasts would be
available in HD at some point.

3sat, KiKa, Phoenix, ZDFinfo, neo & kultur are also getting a HD
channel.

Having all of the public stations available in HD is a big leap forward.

Thanks for the information which is most helpful and useful.

A lot of retuning to be done.

Indeed so, but I expect that most will be competent enough to
do this themselves.

Do you know why Eins Festival HD is (or maybe now "was") on a continuous
demonstration loop and why it does not carry the Eins Festival programs?