Email From FIVE re Freesat

On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:16:27 -0800, Mizter T wrote:
Provider BSkyB eh? Is that a Sky uplinked/controlled transponder
then?

That piece of information is from the Windoze program DVB "show station
details".

I saw somewhere that although some stations are specifically "Freesat"
variants, B$kyB is still involved in the EPG aspects.

I was under the impression from another thread that C5 was joining
a BBC transponder. (Perhaps it's BBC via BSkyB...)

You are indeed correct because `five' is now on the transponder and
frequency which used to be occupied not so long ago by BBC News 24.

On 5 Nov, 16:21, J G Miller wrote:

On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:16:27 -0800, Mizter T wrote:

* * Provider BSkyB eh? Is that a Sky uplinked/controlled transponder
* * then?

That piece of information is from the Windoze program DVB "show station
details".

I saw somewhere that although some stations are specifically "Freesat"
variants, B$kyB is still involved in the EPG aspects.


Interesting. I do recall glancing through a BBC R&D presentation about
Freesat (probably something that someone on here had linked to) which
stressed the utmost importance of the new Freesat EPG system not
interfering with the pre-existing Sky EPG, which might explain why
Freesat only channels still have a BSkyB identifier. Of course in the
instance of Five the same channel will be used for both Sky and
Freesat EPGs.

Mizter T wrote:
:
: I saw somewhere that although some stations are specifically "Freesat"
: variants, B$kyB is still involved in the EPG aspects.

: Interesting. I do recall glancing through a BBC R&D presentation about
: Freesat (probably something that someone on here had linked to) which
: stressed the utmost importance of the new Freesat EPG system not
: interfering with the pre-existing Sky EPG, which might explain why
: Freesat only channels still have a BSkyB identifier.

Freesat run their own "EPG transponder" but also need to add limited EPG data
for the next few hours to *every* transponder. They use Sky hardware to do
this (as this is already in place to do exactly the same for the Sky EPG)