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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Starmax HD - new satellite TV service for Spain

starmax satellite tv in spain

Starmax HD is a new satellite pay-TV platform for Spain.

StarMax HD focuses mainly on providing programs in high definition televisions (HDTV)

Starmax HD has no fixed contract period so you can cancel at anytime if you chose to pay as you go.

The subscription is expected to be just 10€ per month.

For this subscription you wil get access to the following channels:
BBC Entertainment
MGM HD
Natura
Eurosport HD
Discovery World HD
Kidsco
Filmbox
Filmbox Spain
somos
xtreme
Eurosport2
ctk

More information on Starmax HD : The Starmax HD Satellite TV



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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Channel 4 HD finally arrives on Freesat HD receivers.

Channel 4 HD finally arrives on Freesat HD receivers.

Channel 4 HD is available for free on Sky HD and from today Freesat HD recievers.

YOu may need to perform a rescan of the channels.

YOu will find Channel 4 HD on:
Sky channel 140
Freesat channel 126


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Monday, April 18, 2011

Fox Movies on Nilesat 7 West - Important new frequency information

Fox Movies and Fox Series / Fox Arabic will be changing frequencies soon.

Fox Movies and Fox Arabic on Nilesat 101 at 7 West will be moving satellites.

This is shown on a message currently being shown on the channels.

The new frequency for Fox Movies and Fox Series / Fox Arabic will be
Frequency 11296
Polarization H
Symbol Rate 27500
FEC 3/4

However, as this is a frequency on the new Atlantic Bird 4, this may well mean that these two Fox channels are no longer available in Spain. This is becasuse the satellite has a much more tighter signal footprint.

The only advice I can suggest is that your dish is realigned to Arabsat at 26 east, where Fox Movies and Fox Series are available acorss most of the Costa Blanca on an 80cm satellite dish. - although I am not too sure if these Arabsat versions of Fox movies and Fox Series will be staying either.


Update on Fox frequencies at http://costablancasatellite.blogspot.com/2011/05/fox-movies-and-fox-or-fox-series-on.html


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Sunday, April 10, 2011

C4HD on Freesat HD receivers...

Channel 4 HD has been available for a few weeks now.

On Sky HD boxes you will have noticed no real changes.

However, even though Channel 4 HD is available free to air, with no sky viewing card required, Channel 4 HD is not yet availabl;e on the Freesat channel list.

However, it is possible on some Freesat HD receivers to add CHannel 4 HD to the "non freesat" channel list.

Frequency 12.606
Polarisation v
Symbol Rate 27500
FEC 3/4

On some Freesat HD receivers you may also have to change the Modulation to QPSK.

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Spanish TV - We can consider ourselves the world leaders in telebasura – trash TV

In Spain, reading levels are very low, educational failure very high and public contempt for culture colossal. However, not everything is lost: we can consider ourselves the world leaders in telebasura – trash TV. Broadcasters have a complete disregard for taste or decency, airing material unsuitable for children at all ours of the day, profiting from scandal and violence, exploiting sex in true macho style, practising trial by television and disseminating mumbo-jumbo and pseudoscience. The news is partisan and sensationalist, the language vulgar and advertising floods the schedules. But as long as audience figures rise, they're allowed to get away with it.

In fact audiences are glued to the screen: the average consumption of television in Spain in 2010 was 234 minutes per person per day.

It would be unjust to say that television in Spain is merely bad. Television in Spain is appalling. The stars of the schedule are sitcoms, whose pathetic acting and bargain basement scripts bely the gusts of canned laughter over every other line. There are reality shows that alienate the contestants as much as the viewers, and political discussions that are as extreme as they are biased. The only news items worthy of the name are transmitted by TVE, a public channel that, now that it has stopped showing advertising, is stimied by financial problems.

While TVE earned 63.5m euros less in 2010 than the previous year and closed its accounts with a loss of 48m euros, the private channels are earning money like never before. The income of Telecinco rose 30.3% during 2010, to 855.1m euros. At Antena 3 they "only" made a net return last year of 109.1m euros, an increase of 79.6% on 2009.

One main channel alone, Telecinco, holds 51% of advertising thanks to a merger of channels allowed last year by the National Commission of Competition. Less plurality, more profit: Telecinco is the channel of Belén Esteban, the ex-wife of a bullfighter crowned by the Spanish audience as the "queen of the people". The people of telebasura.


Javier Pérez de Albéniz blogs on Spanish television at eldescodificador.wordpress.com. English translation by Howard Rouse

sounrce: _http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/01/critics-notebook-javier-perez-de-albeniz

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