Recent content by garrick

If north France is the same as Ireland, then how many KA spots could cover the UK. granted our european neighbbour might pick up the signal just as London would receice north France and Belgium. Ireland is in financial trouble as well as party trouble, don't forget that RTE is funded by the...

If BskyB doe's go for turkey with a group of pay channels then there is nothing to stop them from doing sky france, sky spain and sky poland.

Any idea when these new receiver's come out and will it be worth it ?

What with the advent of Youview launching on Freeview next year, are there any plans for Freesat and if so will a person have to buy a new receiver or can they be upgraded by connection or OTA.:confused:

So they can easily put BBC HD on 28e wideband for all of europe

Doen't the BBC HD channel come under BBC Wouldwide??

Don't forget the 2012 OLYMPICS in LONDON so if the BBC can launch a full service for BBC2, BBC3 & BBC4 in HD by then it should help to cover the games in HD with the BBC HD showcase channel. If STV, UTV & S4C are in HD by Q1 2012 then ITV is going to left behind, with OFCOM going though its...

Once ASTRA 1N slots into place there is bound to be some spillage into Holland, Belgium and northern France. If FREESAT can obtain all the transbonders then they might be able to give ITV a good package which includes ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD. The BBC could put an extended service which...

Do you happen to know how many spot beams would be used to cover the UK. If so which area's would benefit ?

If Ireland obtains 1 spot then acording to the map the rest of Britain would obtain 5 with overspill's into Ireland and the continent.

What area of europe would 9E signals cover with the Ka band system and would britain have to obtain several Ka spots due to their size ?

Then why don't they join FREESAT and arrange their frequancies so that only a dedicated FREESAT reciever and not a SkY reciever. This might be the start of SkY losing their empire.

Don't you need a combined Ka/Ku LMB to make a DVB-S2 reciever compatable if Ireland use's the Ka spot beam system.

So a person could mount a motor on the disk and go hunting for FTA bonus 3D channels

Could anyone watch a 3D transmission on an HD television and get some enjoyment ??