Or the similarly named Fox Showcase channel?
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Staying at the Meriton in Sydney tonight. TV in the room has normal FTA with EPG as expected, but I was finding a heap of channels not working.
Turns out that all MPEG-4 channels do not work, so none of the HD ones.
After the usual FTAs in their usual places, theyâve got a bunch of Foxtel channels from 501 to 523, and a channel called âIn-Houseâ on 524 which just plays Meriton ads
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I wonder if itâs the MATV thatâs outdated or the TV?
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if the Meritons iâve stayed in are any indication, it will be the tvs
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I stayed at Meriton in Sydney last November and had the same thing. The TVs need an upgrade.
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Before travelling to Sydney, I have spent the last few days in Canberra. The TV in my room there had all available FTA as per normal, and two extra channels, which were really weird.
It had:
LCN 1, channel named âS 18â.
LCN 2, channel named âS 20â.
Both channels played really poor quality, low-res movies which had a funny looking watermark in the corner that I didnât recognise and couldnât make out due to the low quality of the image. (It definitely wasnât Foxtel)
The weird thing was, because of this, the TV in my room had two channels on LCN 2, âS 20â and the ABC.
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where the movies in english? when i helped a friend move out of student accomidaiton a while ago he had some channels like this
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When I first went to Browlee, they had a channel on LCN 100 that played movies (like, on loop for a while) that was simply âINHOUSEâ. As this was during 2017, they were currently playing The LEGO Batman Movie at that time.
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Yeah, they were in English. No idea where they got the stream from.
Still in Sydney tonight, watching TV at the Meriton tonight and noticed that the clock on the TV goes wrong whenever watching any of the Foxtel channels. Correct time shown on FTA channels, 1 hour 40 minutes behind when watching Foxtel.
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@NQCQTV2 could you show me a list of the Foxtel channels?
Oh Good, it was hard to tell from the channel name.
I wonder how many people are actually traveling with DVDs these days. Surely youâd bring a Chromecast or a Laptop?
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Or in my case (sometimes), my own TV Set Top Box (partly so I could record bits of the local TV news).
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Iâm cheating by posting about this in this thread - staying in a BnB outside Glasgow, complete with rabbit ears next to the (tiny) TV 
Thus far the worst line-up Iâve seen, as it can only pick up the BBC A and Digital 3&4 multiplexes:
| LCN | Channel name | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BBC One Scotland | |
| 2 | BBC Two Scotland | * |
| 3 | STV | |
| 4 | Channel 4 | |
| 5 | Channel 5 | |
| 6 | ITV2 | |
| 7 | BBC Alba | |
| 9 | BBC Four | |
| 10 | ITV3 | |
| 13 | Channel 4+1 | |
| 14 | More4 | |
| 15 | Film4 | |
| 24 | ITV4 | |
| 28 | E4 | * |
| 33 | STV+1 | |
| 73 | Sewing Quarter | * |
| 100 | Freeview barker channel | |
| 201 | CBBC | |
| 202 | CBeebies | |
| 231 | BBC News | |
| 232 | BBC Parliament | |
| 250 | BBC Red Button | I |
| 601 | BBC RB 1 | I |
| 700 | BBC Radio 1 | R |
| 701 | BBC Radio 1Xtra | R |
| 702 | BBC Radio 2 | R |
| 703 | BBC Radio 3 | R |
| 704 | BBC Radio 4 | R |
| 705 | BBC Radio 5 Live | R |
| 706 | BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra | R |
| 707 | BBC Radio 6 Music | R |
| 708 | BBC Radio 4 Extra | R |
| 709 | BBC Asian Network | R |
| 710 | BBC World Service | R |
| 719 | BBC Radio Scotland | R |
| 720 | BBC Radio nan GĂ idheal | R |
I - interactive service
R - radio channels
Of note:
- BBC Two is unavailable as the TV requires a rescan, and even opening the EPG - let alone the tuning menu - requires a PIN! The new BBC Scotland channel replaced Scottish opt-out programming on BBC Two, and now takes the English feed.
- E4 is on the wrong channel for some reason - it should be on LCN 13, with E4+1 allocated to LCN 28 on one of the Arqiva muxes. Edit: Never mind, thatâs wrong
- Sewing Quarter had no video or audio stream.
- A number of the BBC Radio channels were off air or broadcast with reduced bandwidth on Freeview until 1am to allow for BBC Alba.
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Currently at Dinner Plain and Mt Hotham. The resort seems to have an MATV system cabled to all hotels/chalets that is an MPEG-4 DVB-T retransmission of VAST South. Itâs crammed into only 4 Band III channels too. Interesting seeing a couple of the SBS channels for example on different RF channels.
Iâm wondering about the MATV equipment used, I wonder if itâs re-encoded or a straight MPEG-4 transport stream retransmitted from the VAST satellite feed without any re-encoding.
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One of my befriended teachers at school went on a P&O cruise to Brisbane during the holidays, and she got a âIn-Room TV Guideâ for me that lists programs shown while she was on cruise. These channels run on an loop so that programs can be shown at various times of the day.
LCN 24: Pacific Flicks 1 (movies, with a lot of 20th Century Fox content)
LCN 25: Taste (âAustralian cooking and lifestyle programsâ, although they show several ABC comedies too)
LCN 28: Kids and You (Kids programs. In no order they are Wiggle Town, Dance Academy, Five Minutes More, Emma!, Prisoner Zero, The Justine Clarke Show, Peg + Cat, Octonauts, Mauriceâs Big Adventures, The WotWots and the night time family movie. Time for an update I guess?)
LCN 30: Pacific Premiere (Very recent movies, including actual out-on-DVD blockbusters)
LCN 39: Nick Jr. (why didnât she get Nickelodeon?)
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It appears they play the âThe Letdownâ pilot from the ABC Comedy Showroom too often, possibly due to Netflix fulfilling it into a proper series.
For the claim of a âAussie cooking and lifestyleâ channel, the shows are Top Jobs For Dogs, The Ex-PM, Juila Zemiroâs Home Delivery, Foreign Correspondent, The Time Of Our Lives, Ashâs Brush With Fame, Catalyst, Ricketts Lane, Fancy Boy and Backseat Drivers. Is there a lot of content from the goverment-funded stations (ABC and SBS) on both the Kids and Taste channels?
Probably just reflective of how little local content the commercials produce. They can hardly play years old reality programmes can they?
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Currently in Brisbane for a work conference, staying in a hotel in the city.
TV in the room has all of the usual FTA channels in their correct places, all up-to-date as well with 9Gem HD showing on LCN 95.
The only thing I found in FTA that I wasnât expecting was LCN 44 showing â31 Digitalâ which had a âNo signalâ slide appear on the screen.
After the FTAs Iâve got:
101 âFox Sports 1â showing 501
102 âFox Sports 2â showing 502
109 âFoxsportsâ showing 503
110 âFoxsports 4â showing 505
111 âFoxsports 5â showing 506
112 âFox Footyâ showing 504
113 âDisney Moviesâ
114 âMasterpieceâ
115 âActionâ
116 âNat Geo Wildâ
On 116 thereâs no sound and the middle 4:3 part of the programme has been stretch out to fit the 16:9 screen for some reason.
117 âLifestylesâ - Yes, theyâve got an s on the end of the channel name.
118 âArtsâ
119 âUKTVâ
120 âUniversalâ
201 âFox 8â
202 âSky Newsâ
350 âMovies 1â - showing Foxtel Movies Premiere
351 âMovies 2â - showing Foxtel Movies Family
352 âFox 2â - this channel is airing Max
353 âFox 3â
353 is showing Discovery Channel, but like 116, the middle 4:3 section is stretched out to 16:9
Thatâs it.
After this, the usual FTA audio channels appear.
Interestingly, 201 is occupied by both âFox 8â and âABC Jazzâ. So when I type 201 into the remote a box appears to select which one I want.
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