The Xbox One S is probably your best choice as a player at this point
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I have about 10 Ultra-HD Blu-ray titles.
Also there is OPPO available, I have the Samsung player which is good but I still want to get the Oppo player when I can afford it. The OPPO player will set you back $1000 although its the best player in the market atm.
I find Ultra HD Blu-ray as much as an upgrade from DVD to Blu-ray especially with HDR.
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SBS-7 Was offline for a bit at around 8PM.
I’ve noticed that some people still refer to new flat screen televisions/monitors as a ‘plasma’, even though it’s very unlikely any company would be buying a new plasma screen today as they are no longer being manufactured. The Panasonic professional website only has LCD and LED screens available.
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Last manufacture year for Plasmas was 2014 IIRC.
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Good to see GWN7 didn’t spare any details. I thought they would have used the fibre DVN to get their services to Belrose.
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WIN and Prime both use the Digitally Distribution Australia microwave network (owned by WIN) to distribute their signal across most of Eastern Australia. Belrose is connected to this network.
I wonder if this outage affected any other WIN or Prime services.
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Meanwhile Bruce is on the other end of a phone somewhere, demanding the screening of more scenic shots saying this television channel is currently not available.
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I’m sure you’re looking forward to Daylight saving finishing Sunday morning. I can recall a couple of years in the past when this caused the broadcast EPG to out by one hour on some networks. So if you rely on a PVR that gets its program info off the EPG it might be worth checking the program guide before Sunday night comes around and you’ve missed the latest insult on MKR or other favourite show.
New DVB service:
LCN 36 Service name
SBS Arabic 24
Also a new name for SBS HD, it’s now SBS ONE HD.
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SBS Arabic 24 has been one of their DAB+ stations for a while now and was planning to officially launch via Digital TV on Monday, my guess is that they’ve either started early or have done a “soft launch” of the service through that platform.
SBS ONE became SBS in July 2015, so not that long ago! 
Unless SBS knows something about the On-Air Branding of their main channel that we currently don’t (not likely IMO), I personally would’ve thought it would make more sense to drop the “ONE” from the LCN name of the SD channel rather than adding it to the LCN name of the HD channel.
Please help someone who is not well versed in the technical side of broadcasting.
Metro, regional and remote services use alternating LCN sets primarily for signal overlap. However, what happens in regional markets when signals overlap, both for localised transmitter feeds on a single station, and for overlapping regional markets (e.g. NNSW and SNSW).
Wouldn’t they all just go in the 350 and up range?
The channels with the lowest signal go to LCN 350-
Yes except for ABC & SBS which use the same LCNs.
As you’ve suggested there are overlap areas including with repeater transmitters, and even if the rebroadcasts are on different channels they’ll send the same LCNs.
As mentioned in one of the threads recently (and early on in the Long Distance Television thread) when there are multiple channels with the same LCNs tuners prefer the stronger signal and store the others in high-numbered, 350+, LCNs
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The 350+ range should however only be used when there is a real difference between the two stations with the same LCN ie different service areas. If multiple signals are received but all from the same broadcaster in the same region, only the strongest should be listed.
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So would that mean that if the metro stations merge with their regional affiliates in the future, based on this operation (with no affiliate owners), would they be able to use the same LCNs like ABC and SBS do nationwide?