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Looked in my filing cabinet and found a Radio Shack catalog from 1999. It even has the telephone I still use "200-memory speakerphone with alphanumric display"

No, that would be SES-3, which has been in orbit for quite a while now, waiting for NBC to get off their butt.

That sucks. Another failed broadcaster.

Just heard a promo on HD03 saying that the PBS Newshour will be going to 7 days a week starting September 7th.

Same here.

Thanks for the heads-up. Replaced the now defunct PressTV entry with KTV2.

I think Create was a blank screen for a while, but not the rest of the Mux.

That's too bad, it was an amusing channel.

I used one until the microHD came out. It won't do DVB-S2 so it's of limited use. I believe to get satellites into orbital position you first sort by satellite, then manually move them into longitude order.

Bad weather at PBS Networks Operations Center (Washington DC I think)? SD07 might have been uplinked from somewhere else in the country at the time.

PBS has election coverage starting at 5PM pacific time on HD01.

When I first got my microHD I looked for NBC on AMC1 but didn't get anything, and the pier-cam wasn't very interesting:) I did a blind scan last night and a bunch of NBC channels were found. NBC Mountain, NBC West, and a bunch of occasionals. I don't think I changed anything here. Does that...

It's not like PBS shows action movies :) I noticed the Motorweek has 5.1 sound, really? Motorweek? Why? There was a Ken Burns show about WWII with 5.1 sound. It was pretty weird watching real black and white footage with studio produced machine gun fire and mortar explosions.

Out of curiosity I asked someone at Oregon Public Broadcasting why they only broadcast 2.0 audio for programs that are now 5.1 after the AMC-21 changeover to MPEG4: "We do not pass Dolby 5.1 audio. We have equipment limitations at our main studios in Portland so we cannot send out 5.1 audio...

Neat!

Sometimes it is, other times it's not.

Guess they still don't have their act together. Now HD04 say October 9th :)

HD04 now has an overlay that says "MPEG2 DVB-S SCPC Transmission End Date 9/25/12 @ 12:00 ET" so it looks like they finally got everyone on board.

Looks like they are testing again. Found HD04 and HD05 on the new frequencies. HD04 had the usual PBS NOC color bar pattern, HD05 just had color bars with no identification.

Thanks Iceberg. So it looks like they are splitting the old HD04 space into HD04 and HD05 and leaving SD05-SD07 alone to be DVB-S or DVB-S2 depending on the uplinker. In fact, doing some googling, the new HD04/HD05 usage has been seen but only for testing for a short period of time: 12145.5 H...

Then where does HD05 go?

Still DVB-S/MPEG2 as of today (from HD04 showing Doctor Who): VideoID : 49 (0x31) Menu ID : 3 (0x3) Format : MPEG Video Format version : Version 2 Format profile...

Closest thing I've seen is "New Scandinavian Cooking" on Create :)

Darn, I guess it's the end of the line for my Viewsat. Ordered a microHD, will wait to see if I need a bigger dish.

Found some info on FY2012 plans: MPEG 4 distribution upgrade Develop next generation real-time delivery platform Reduce Satellite Transponder capacity Improve video signal quality Increase number of audio channels and improve quality Audio Level / Loudness monitoring & tracking...