Uplink Report - Sept 5th

**Derwin0** · 09-07-2006 05:32 PM

FSN South has been put on 61.5, but Atlanta (which is in the middle of FSN's territory) is on 129, that makes no sense. Unless they finally move Atlanta to 61.5 where it should have been all along.

Time sharing (or mirroring) the HD FSN channels on 4 feeds should work. I never saw more than 2 or 3 different college games on at the same time on Saturday when browsing through the multisport channels looking for football.

I image these will be VIP reciever required channels. More reason for me to beg my wife to let me cough up the money for a 622.

**smokey982** · 09-07-2006 07:26 PM

Are any of the other programs on FSN in HD besides the games? Like Best Damn Sports Show and Beyond the Glory?

**BFG** · 09-07-2006 07:43 PM

Something else important to note is that NTGHD and HGHD are now true mpeg4 at 129 tp30, as a result they are probably 1440 on 129

30 STZHD 9435
30 NFLHD 9464
30 NTGHD 9429
30 HGHD 9461

**cblehm** · 09-07-2006 09:35 PM

Are the HD RSNs going to be spotbeamed or on CONUS like the SD versions?

**BFG** · 09-07-2006 09:38 PM

they're conus

they have 4 hd channels set up for the 11 rsns on 129

and 3 hd channels set up for the 4 on 61.5 , (maybe the reason they only have 3 is they're saving room for nesn?)

**HokieEngineer** · 09-07-2006 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by BFG

Something else important to note is that NTGHD and HGHD are now true mpeg4 at 129 tp30, as a result they are probably 1440 on 129

30 STZHD 9435
30 NFLHD 9464
30 NTGHD 9429
30 HGHD 9461

The channel types are still A6, which is the "mpeg2 video only available to vip" flag. I'll check resolution/video info after the football game tonight.

**BFG** · 09-07-2006 09:50 PM

i don't see how it can be. They've never fit 4 mpeg2 channels on a tp before, but then again it would be 2 mpeg2 and 2 mpeg4

**Stargazer** · 09-07-2006 10:04 PM

I wonder what their purpose of moving some locals from one transponder to another was on 129? I noticed that they moved my local DMA locals (and the neighboring DMA's locals as well) from transponder 15 to transponder 32. Is 32 one of those power boosted transponders I heard about recently?

**HokieEngineer** · 09-07-2006 10:06 PM

LOL!!! I can confirm that at least 3 out of the 4 are MPEG2!!! NFL, HGTV, and NGHD are mpeg2! NFL and HGTV are 1440x1080i, NGHD is 1280x720p. I dont subscribe to Starz so I can't check that one. I would assume it is also mpeg2 though.

NFL and Starz are hovering around 8Mbit/s, NGHD is around 13, and HGTV is 11Mbit. Yeeeeeeeeeech. Checking the real time bitrates, it appears that their statmux has a per channel limit of 16Mbit (which HGTV hits quite often) and a min of 4Mbit.

That is all on 129W.

On 61.5, NFLHD and StarzHD are on their own TP, and both are h.264 (mpeg4). Both streams getting around 15Mbit/s. So basically, people with 129 are getting the shaft in regards to nflhd, starzhd, hgtv and nghd.