BBC reshuffle

BigMoose · 2010-10-16, 09:03 PM

Just noticed on the digitalspy forum that in the early hours of Monday 18th Oct the BBC are going to do a reshuffle of many channel on sat which will cause us a fair bit of grief. With GBPVR we could steel a scan file from whichever sucker did a scan first Big Grin

, but still had lots of extremely painful remapping to do. In nPVR I assume we have to all rescan ourselves, but the remapping is much easier!

steeb · 2010-10-16, 09:44 PM

BigMoose Wrote:Just noticed on the digitalspy forum that in the early hours of Monday 18th Oct the BBC are going to do a reshuffle of many channel on sat which will cause us a fair bit of grief. With GBPVR we could steel a scan file from whichever sucker did a scan first , but still had lots of extremely painful remapping to do. In nPVR I assume we have to all rescan ourselves, but the remapping is much easier!

Nicely spotted! They would coincide that with the same day my ISP is upgrading the exchange potentially rendering my online capability useless! This should be much easier with N-PVR. What should be the reward for the first person to come up with a workable scan.cache for GB-PVR? Wink

Steeb

imilne · 2010-10-17, 08:04 AM

I've always just used DVBDream to do the scanning and creation of the scan.cache for me. Then I just quickly remap the entries in GBPVR.

There's still no word on whether they'll also change BBC HD (and eventually BBC1 HD) to DVB-S2 though. I know in the long run it's probably for the best, but for those of us with DVB-S only hardware it'll be a pain. Especially as support for DVB-S2 hardware is very limited with GBPVR/NPVR.

Iain

BigMoose · 2010-10-17, 11:43 AM

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if it does go DVB-S2 or not. Seems to make sense but then again there's a TP with 3 ITV HD channels on it that's still DVB-S so who knows. I got an HVR-4000 to go with a DVB-S card I already had a while back so I'm hoping DVB-S2 wont be too much of a problem, except all DVB-T and DVB-S2 will hog the same tuner... I imagine there are many with DVB-S only who will be annoyed if it does change though. Also wonder if C4HD will join...

imilne · 2010-10-17, 06:15 PM

BigMoose Wrote:I imagine there are many with DVB-S only who will be annoyed if it does change though.

Annoying yes, but not unexpected. The Freesat specifications actually mandate DVB-S2 for all HD set-top boxes. So it was really just the chance many of us took a couple of years ago when buying (significantly) cheaper DVB-S only hardware that everything would stay DVB-S for a while. Two years isn't a bad run for a dual tuner that cost me less than 30 notes Rolleyes

steeb · 2010-10-17, 06:25 PM

imilne Wrote:Annoying yes, but not unexpected. The Freesat specifications actually mandate DVB-S2 for all HD set-top boxes. So it was really just the chance many of us took a couple of years ago when buying (significantly) cheaper DVB-S only hardware that everything would stay DVB-S for a while. Two years isn't a bad run for a dual tuner that cost me less than 30 notes

Indeed but I'm getting into a slightly sweaty panic as I don't have any S2 cards, I could lose channels soooon I knew it would happen but I'm not prepared Big Grin

imilne · 2010-10-17, 06:49 PM

steeb Wrote:Indeed but I'm getting into a slightly sweaty panic as I don't have any S2 cards, I could lose channels soooon I knew it would happen but I'm not prepared

Don't worry, I'm right there with you Smile

I'm hoping we'll know tomorrow, as I assume if they *do* switch to S2 they'll do it then, rather than when BBC1 HD launches in November. It's a tough call though. Stick with DVB-S and get another HD channel (for free), or have them switch to DVB-S2 and possibly also gain C4HD (eventually) at the cost of new hardware.

steeb · 2010-10-17, 06:53 PM

imilne Wrote:Don't worry, I'm right there with you

I'm hoping we'll know tomorrow, as I assume if they *do* switch to S2 they'll do it then, rather than when BBC1 HD launches in November. It's a tough call though. Stick with DVB-S and get another HD channel (for free), or have them switch to DVB-S2 and possibly also gain C4HD (eventually) at the cost of new hardware.

Right there with you Big Grin

Guess we just have to watch this space..... Have a feeling I won't sleep tonight until I know what they've done :eek:

Steeb

martint123 · 2010-10-17, 08:39 PM

With my 7010x (2 x dvb-t and 2 x dvb-s) it would get expensive moving up to dvb-s2 and slots become a problem. I thkn I'd have to give up HD first ;(

imilne · 2010-10-18, 10:00 AM

Well, when I left home this morning, BBC HD was still there (on my DVB-S tuner), but the t/p also still had a couple of SD channels on it too. So I don't know if that answers anything for us or not, other than we'll probably keep BBC HD until at least Nov 3rd now.