Thank fuck it has Extra and Extra 2!
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Lol, SBS Two is in News and Extra is in Entertainment! How old is this shit?
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How could anyone survive?!?!?!?
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I think this answers that comment:
Yes, I bloody well said it. Get in there! 
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Yeah thereās a patch panel for guest use. Iāll post a pic of it later.
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Probably dates back to mid-2015, with āRacing Liveā (the pre-launch name for RACING.COM") among the channels listed but not Nine HD.
Surprised that the now-defunct TVS wasnāt among the community channels listed! 
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I had a recent stay in Bundaberg at the Sugar Country Motor Inn, they had a 32ā TCL Smart TV with internet connected, Iām guessing a previous guest had forgot to log out of their Netflix account as it was still active.
TV channels available:
2 fox cricket
3 fox nrl
4 fox 3 (offline see below)
5 9 wide bay
6 fox footy
7 7 wide bay
8 espn
18 discovery
19 Nat geo
20 abc HD
21 abc
22 abc kids comedy
23 abc me
24 abc news
30 sbs one HD
31 sbs vice land HD
32 world movies
33 food
34 nitv
50 9hd wide bay
51 9 wide bay
52 9gem
53 9go
54 9life
55 sbn
56 aspire
70 7 wide bay
71 7 wide bay
72 7two
73 7mate
74 7 mate HD
75 openshop
76 7flix
78 racing
80 win hd wide bay
81 bold
82 peach
83 snow
84 tvsn
85 gold
88 family movies
89 action
90 comedy
350 abc
351 premiere movies
352 sbs one
353 sky news
355 win wide bay
Fox 3 had the old Austar no smart card error
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It was a joke.
I know. I was trying to be funny.
This must be a southern states thing? Iāve stayed in hospitals a few times in the last decade in Queensland and have never had to pay for TV at all.
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your government must be more generous in its funding 
The Canberra Hospital has free free-to-air television and radio too, with a screen hanging from the ceiling above every bed. I didnāt bother using it when I was in there for a week early last year as it meant I would have had to wear my glasses to watch it, which I didnāt want to do. So I used the free WiFi instead and watched the streaming apps on my phone.
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Good evening all!
Iām in a highrise building, we had a power outage yesterday which was fixed by last night. Today I received an email from building management which said that Foxtel was still unavailable due to the power outage. I responded back asking how the Foxtel worked? If it was Cable or Satellite. Their reply has me quite baffled. They said
āIt is satellite from the roof but it is converted to signals in the basementā.
What could this mean? We only have TV outputs on the wall. Could it be that they somehow distribute the Foxtel signal via the same signal as the TV signal? That could be MATV?
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Yes, Foxtel has a whole installation guide on it. https://www.foxtel.com.au/content/dam/foxtel/support/pdf/installation-manual-mdu-mre-commercial.pdf
There is also āBusiness iQā that may be for Hotels that combines the two satellite signals into one and allows it to be integrated/āstackedā with FTA and in-house services: https://www.foxtel.com.au/content/dam/foxtel/support/pdf/FXTL-T-0298-Business-iQ-Satellite-Infrastructure-Guide-Issue.pdf
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What do you use to watch FOXTEL?
It sounds like from their reply that you donāt have a dedicated FOXTEL box eg. iQ3, and that they appear as extra channels on your free to air TV?
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Holy moly. Thank You That is fantastic. I wonder if I get my DVB S Card out of the storage if Iād be able to scan and see signals? Do you think theyād be at the same frequency that they would have been on the satellite? Theyād obviously be encrypted but Iām curious now.
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Oh I donāt have Foxtel, they just sent us the email as FYI. The building Iām in has a hotel on the lower floors of the building as well as apartments.
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If itās one wall plug (and integrated with FTA) then itās more likely to be transmitted as DVB-C.
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I would like to think that a large amount of older televisions in the country (late 2006 - early 2010) maybe/can receive DVB-C transmissions? (Our main lounge TV has the ability to receive āCableā, Digital VHF/UHF and Analog VHF/UHF.)
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables
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