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Over 300.000 Polish n subscribers
"n", the youngest Polish digital platform, already had over 300,000 subscribers in the end of the first quarter of 2008. That information has been published in the ITI Group's report for 2007. It proves that many new subscribers join "n" platform on a regular basis and their numer is constantly increasing. ››
Cyfra+ after the transponder changes
Polish digital platform Cyfra+, in accordance with SATKurier.pl announcements, has introduced many changes on its transponders in the night of 7th April 2008. Changes concerned Hot Bird 8 (13E) transponders. This is the list of all changes, with specific technical parameters, for viewers who are not using platform's terminals. ››
TVP Sport in HD?
TVP, Polish public bradcaster, announced that its first HD channel TVP Sport HD will debut this summer and will operate separetly from TVP Sport, current sports channel. TVP Sport HD probably will be broadcast only in DVB-T test's transmitters. ››
Euro 2008 in HD on NTV Plus
Russian digital platform NTV Plus (Eutelsat W4 - 36°E and Bonum 1 - 56°E) has gained broadcasting rights to present football championships Euro 2008 in HD. The event will be transmitted on HD Sport. Polsat Sport HD will broadcast the event in Poland. ››
HDTV tests on Bulsatcom
- 2008-04-14 08:16:11 / Rafa? Tomasiak
- last update: 2008-04-14 12:47:30
- source: parabola.cz
Bulgarian pay-tv digital platform Bulsatcom started high definition (HD) transmission tests. New DVB-S multiplex with two HD channels (HD 1 test and HD 2 test) has been activated on a Greek satellite Hellas Sat 2 (39°E).
This new multiplex is available on transponder 20. To this day, 2/3 of transponder's capacity was used by Bulsatcom for SD channels transmissions.
Luxe TV HD is recently available on both HD test channels. After the official start of HD broadcasting by Bulsatcom a new channel will replace second Luxe TV HD signal.
Technical parameters:
Hellas Sat 2 (39°E)
12,577 GHz, pol. H, SR=10000, FEC=7/8, DVB-S, MPEG-4
HD 1 test
SID=21
PID V=211
PID A=212
encoding: picture Irdeto 2, sound FTA
HD 2 test (Luxe TV HD)
SID=22
PID V=222
PID A=223
encoding: none
Many new high definition channels will appear in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
