SAT-Usenet 25/97

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Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 07:25:55 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: thor II
From: Bjorn Brox <brox@corena.no>
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 16:15:11 +0200
Message-ID: <33899AEF.141D@corena.no>

Sci-Fi Couple wrote:
> 
> Johan Andersson wrote:
> 
> > Er det noen som vet hvilken kanaler som kommer pa THOR II ???
> >
> > Har noen fatt inn signal fra THOR II ???
> 
>  The only channels that I know of are svensk TV8 and the SciFi channel.
> I also heard that the satellite would not be in position until sometime
> in June.

Correct.
> 
> Bill

Swedish TV8 will be on 5 degrees east (as all Swedish channels), both
digital (Sirius 2) and in clear PAL (on TELE-X, Kanal Fem freq) when
Sirius 2 is active.
The launch for Sirius 2 is August 28.

The THOR 2 channels I have heard about is:

   Sky News and Documentation
   Sky Entertainment
   Sci-Fi channel
   TV Danmark
   Murdoch's Fox Kids Network
   Dutch music channel TMF
   Canal Digital - Multichoice Nordic/Canal Plus digital package
(Filmnet etc) currently on Astra, but vill move to THOR2 and will use
the Conax system.

At least the first four will start as analogue (D2Mac)channels.

-- 


Subject: Re: Channel 5 Films - Gone
From: cmwb@globalnet.co.uk (Colin)
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 08:06:23 GMT
Message-ID: <338a95e3.10069455@news.globalnet.co.uk>

ian@sevenhills.demon.co.uk (Ian Mapp) wrote:
>I saw the crash test for about ten minutes..... Then this menu
>interface came on the screen and this guy starting selecting various
>options concerning region 1 and region 2 and then the film (loaded
>weapon 1) kicked in.  I thought that maybe the films were not being
>broadcast on Astra, but it seems that it was just a loss of signal.
>
>It was, however, the most interesting thing I have seen on channel 5.
I saw it too and it WAS the most interesting thing I have seen on 5
aswell !!
My conclusion from what I witnessed was that region 1 feed failed and
the Astra sat feed has only one mpeg rx. with no auto change over
unlike the terrestrial Tx's which have fully auto backup.

Regards

       Colin.


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