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Express AMU1, EUTELSAT 36A/B, 36° e.
‘ channel 8 (0h)’, ‘TDK (TV. damskiy club)’ ушли с 12476 R [Sat-Digest]
'First Vegetarian', ‘ТНОМЕР’ ушли с 12111 (L) [Sat-Digest]
Для ‘Fashion One HD’, ‘ Russia 1 HD’, ‘Ultra HD Cinema’ новые параметры приема 11958 (L), SR 30000, FEC 5/6, DVB-S2 / 8PSK [Sat-Digest, Sibylla]
In the US, I started an unusual service for viewing satellite TV
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order, who was going to 'bury' the satellite TV will certainly be interesting to learn about the launch of a new direct broadcast operator sputnikovgo (DTH), which will work on an unusual pattern. Its subscribers will pay only for what, they planned to watch. It called Orby TV service, it is located in the US and is designed for those subscribers, who do not want to connect expensive premium channel packages, to gain access to premium content.
Orby TV provides users with free viewing of local TV channels, and the base operator package costs 40 dollars per month. It includes, including such channels like Nickelodeon, CNN, History, Food Network, TLC, HGTV, Lifetime, AMC and other. among broadcasters, available through Orby TV: channels from Viacom companies, Discovery и AMC Networks. on the contrary, TV stations from Walt Disney, Fox and NBCUniversal in the package are missing.
Orby TV - it's a startup in Los Angeles, headed by former CEO of Starz Michael Thornton as CEO, who is trying to do business in the segment of pay TV, to which the industry giants do not usually oriented.
Now Up-front payment. Really, large pay-TV operators, usually, oriented to the service of broadband Internet access and on customers, which use many services, as they provide higher average revenue per user (ARPU) and lower rates of churn. Because of this, they forget about the prepayment, completely eliminating it, as something unnecessary, sometimes bad! The subscription fee for advanced Orby TV package is 50 USD. month. Members Orby TV channels can be separately connected category of "premium" surcharge: HBO (18 dollars per month), Cinemax (12 dollars per month), Starz (9 USD) и Epix (6 USD).
Another interesting point. The company sets the end subscriber and a satellite dish antenna for receiving digital terrestrial signal. The cost is a standard receiver 100 USD, a television program recording function - 200 USD.
Chapter Orby TV said Michael Thornton, The new service is aimed at people, who are tired of paying the premium content with the basic package. According to him, The new service is aimed at 30 millions of American families, who do not have or do not want to connect to broadband, - the newspaper writes The Hollywood Reporter. Thornton notes, that subscriber Orby TV is not necessary to conclude an agreement with. service, usually, prepaid. It is analogous to the use of a mobile phone with prepaid, when a customer prepares money to your account, appointed his phone number, and receives the corresponding number of services for a given amount.
Orby TV uses only two transponders of the satellite Eutelsat 117 A West heading 116,8 degrees West longitude. Interesting, that all channels of the proposal Orby TV broadcast codec compression HEVC (H.265) and encoded in the conditional access system Nagra MA.
"Tricolor" has translated another transponder on the new parameters
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Apparently, Russian satellite operators are working to gradually optimize the occupied transponder capacity. Recently, "NTV-Plus" released two transponders in the position 36 degrees East longitude, and now the turn and up to market leader. "Tricolor" changed the parameters of the next transponder broadcast and now for, to receive the signal from, needs more fine-tuning the antenna.
At this time the changes were made to the broadcast frequency 11,958 GHz polarization left. Here the operator has changed the character flow rate, raising it from 27500 before 30000, and also changed the FEC - has been 3/4, and became 5/6.
Subscribers "Tricolor" have noticed a change in the first place after, they have lost the broadcasting channel "Russia-1 HD» and to continue watching the TV channel they had to search for channels or rescan the specified frequency. Changes have also been broadcasting channels «Ultra HD Cinema» and «Fashion One HD».
Previously, these changes made a statement at a frequency 12418 GHz. Perhaps, they are connected with the, that the operator wants to liberate the occupied part of the capacity for new services.
Recall, Infochannel operator that still broadcast in MPEG-2 / DVB-S, therefore the signal frequency 12226 GHz, where the broadcast and other channels (They are broadcast in MPEG-4 / DVB-S) accepted for the subscribers of the operator the most ustoychivo.Napomnim, Infochannel operator that still broadcast in MPEG-2 / DVB-S, therefore the signal frequency 12226 GHz, where the broadcast and other channels (They are broadcast in MPEG-4 / DVB-S) accepted for the subscribers of the operator the most stable.