Ray Woodward writes: A free to air version of ‘Five’ (Region 2) - complete with Five text (pages 500 - 599) has arrived on Astra 2D at 10.773 GHz Horizontal SR:22000 FEC:5/6 Label:6335. This is a relay via BBC capacity for use by Freesat as part of the Digital Switchover process. There are no plans to put any of Five’s other services on Freesat until the 2013-2017 time period (as SES Astra bring the next generation of satellite capacity onstream at 28 east).
on Nov 4th, 2008 at 09:04
As I understand it. The present three PSB muxes are to be merged into two, this
allowing space for HD on the freed up multiplex.
on Nov 4th, 2008 at 19:14
John: That’s the Freeview (DVB-T) muxes, not the Freesat (DVB-S) muxes.
on Dec 16th, 2008 at 17:14
Its been reported that fiver and five us will be on free sat in the new year