Discovery Channels Might Disappear From Sky

[Howardh]

Yes it has to be satellite, no cable out in the sticks, but I got shut of Sky some time ago as the price kept going up.

I miss a few documentary channels but then again, when I first watched TV there was ONE channel and that was only for a few hours a day! I have several dozen US railroad, canals and old lorry DVDs to keep me going.

Should I know about this advert then?

There's always youtube. There's far more stuff on there that's totally brilliant (OK, an even larger amount of Dross, but hey, peeps pay for Sky....) - my old man's really into watching whole flights with just the camera looking through the plane window. Mind you, that's probably more entertaining than my sunset videos. Which are more entertaining than anything on Sky....

As for the ad...thought you replied...??

Possibly although I haven't checked which satellite at 28.2°E that sky sports uses and fringe reception can be had if larger dishes are used and it (unfortunately) might be able to use the internet to receive it.

Interestingly in the EU if you can receive it you can watch it and even with permission (I believe only of the country it is being rebroadcast in not the original broadcaster) rebroadcast it, so used to have places in Spain that had a high level of British occupation setting up basic TV relays (i.e. for CH1/2/3/4) that were fed from the normal DBS satellite feeds.

And as for Freeview lite, it uses 3 'channels', 1 is used for HD/DVB2-T and the other 2 for normal DVB-T TV, the main stations/relays (ones that serve major cities generally) also have variations in the amount of TV channels but always use a minimum of 6 'channels' with 7/8/9 if they have low power local multiplexes and the new MUX7/8. (fyi 'channels' are the blocks of frequencies used to transmit TV)

Examples of this are the adjacent transmitters Stockland Hill in SE Devon and Rowridge IoW. Stockland Hil transmitter has channels 22/23/25/26/28/29 whilst Rowridge has the extra multiplexes so has 21/22/24/25/27/28/29/31/37 so you would receive more channels) .

Also some of the extra channels that have been mentioned that are still carried on Freeview lite are just MHEG5 'text' channels so use hardly any bandwidth, not enough for any other channels.

Whoa, there, that's waaay over my head!! Is Sky sports legal out of range?

 

[dgl]

There's always youtube. There's far more stuff on there that's totally brilliant (OK, an even larger amount of Dross, but hey, peeps pay for Sky....) - my old man's really into watching whole flights with just the camera looking through the plane window. Mind you, that's probably more entertaining than my sunset videos. Which are more entertaining than anything on Sky....

As for the ad...thought you replied...??



Whoa, there, that's waaay over my head!! Is Sky sports legal out of range?

If you pay for it, yes

 

[infobleep]

Most if not all of those FTA channels are available over the web (like our BBC) without the cost of dishes! Of course, some will be geo-blocked, but any half-decent tech forum will explain how (easy it is) to unblock. Don't think it's even "illegal" to unblock a legal stream.

The only real difficulty is knowing where on the web to look, not really tried it myself, but search engines, perseverance and putting in "bookmarks" when found!

So I'll admit, satellite is the easy way. Also the most expensive!

Proxy services are what one would use via the web. I've looked into it but never done much with it.

I find recording off the satellite easier than off a computer video stream, although I know have a system whereby I can do that if I do wish.

 

[infobleep]

Yes, Quest is not currently on freesat but is available on freeview, a lot of it is to do with the original satellites used for broadcast covered a larger area than just the U.K. and caused problems with program licencing and adverts. It is also the reason why BBC/ITV/C4/C5 were originally encrypted on SKY.
The newer/replacement satellites such as Astra 2D don't have this problem as the beam is pretty much UK only.

Interestingly that problem never seemed to be an issue in Germany, where they don't encrypt their broadcasts. Austrians do however.

 

[jon0844]

Interestingly that problem never seemed to be an issue in Germany, where they don't encrypt their broadcasts. Austrians do however.

Germany generally dub everything, so it isn't as big a problem as - say - Scandinavia where most English speaking programmes (and there are a lot) being merely subtitled* - hence being very tempting as a source of programming, along with any other country that does the same.

* it's only really kids TV that is dubbed.

 

[infobleep]

Germany generally dub everything, so it isn't as big a problem as - say - Scandinavia where most English speaking programmes (and there are a lot) being merely subtitled* - hence being very tempting as a source of programming, along with any other country that does the same.

* it's only really kids TV that is dubbed.

I take your point but Austrian TV also dubs everything I believe, yet they are encrypted. They are a smaller country though.