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Subject: Re: Any news about sci-fi
From: knut.vikor@smi.uib.no (Knut S. Vikor)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:10:05 +0200
Message-ID: <knut.vikor-ya02408000R1704971210050001@nntp.uib.no>

In article <3356667E.7CC5@babylon.de>, psc@babylon.de wrote:


>Due to the fact that no further analogue channels are available between
>0.6 west and 5.2 east (except of telecom 2C), there is no chance to
>receive SciFi soon. I expect we have to wait for Sirius 2 or Thor 2. But
>the biggest possibility is this: it will go digital and appear never
>again in analogue...

There is a Teletext comment (on TV3 Norway, I think I saw it) which
confirms that they are looking for alternate possibilities, presumably
another transponder. It also states that subscribers will have their
subscriptions lengthened for the period SF is off-line, according to a key
(since it is part of a package, we will get a one day extension of the
package per week the SF channel is off). So, it is likely that some analog
options do exist and are being considered. Kinnevik's digital operation is
probably too far off into the future for them to wait for that.

-- 
Knut S. Vikor                         e-mail: knut.vikor@smi.uib.no
Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Bergen 
http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/
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