[Info] BBC HD

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You may have seen by recent posts that I have been playing with my Coolstream HD1 box recently.

One thing that confused me was that while scanning, I could not find any BBC HD channels.

After some searching on the internet, it appears the BBC changed to DVB-S2 on the 6th of June.

This affects transponder 50 on 28'e, this transponder transmits....
BBC One HD
BBC HD UK
ITV 1 Meridian South East HD

The change on that transponder (10,847Mhz) was to the below.

Satellite: Astra 2D tp.50
Frequency: 10,847MHz (vertical polarity)
Modulation: DVB-S2, QPSK
Symbol Rate: 23.0
FEC: 8/9


If you have a linux HD satellite box that cannot find them channels, then a simple fix is to edit your satellites.xml file. Open the file in a good text editor and look for a line like the below under 28'e.

<transponder frequency="10847000" symbol_rate="22000000" polarization="1" fec_inner="4" system="0" modulation="1"/>

Change it to the below.

<transponder frequency="10847000" symbol_rate="23000000" polarization="1" fec_inner="6" system="1" modulation="1"/>

Powercycle your box and rescan, the 3 channels above will now be found (well it worked on my Coolstream HD1 box).

It looks like quite a few sat boxes and TV's with integral satellite tuners cannot do DVB-S2, have a look at this BBC blog and the angry comments posted at the bottom! --> BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Changes to BBC HD channels on satellite on 6th June

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[wiz569]

I thought all HD boxes had dvb-s2 tuners??

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Originally Posted by wiz569

I thought all HD boxes had dvb-s2 tuners??

So did I, but it appears early Panasonic and Harvard freesat boxes cannot pick up BBC HD now. Maybe they have a DVB-S2 tuner, but for some reason are not fully DVB-S2 compliant as users cannot get BBC HD now.

On the other hand, my DM7025 is a non HD box but has a DVB-S2 tuner! (can display HD via ethernet on a computer though).

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