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A British post.

The hotel I stayed in the Scottish Highlands had satellite TV, the only one I stayed at that didn’t have terrestrial TV.

There were probably several hundred TV channels, could see LCN and Channel name and Now info, but sadly most didn’t have a picture, mostly for being behind a paywall eg. TNT and SKY Sports.

But the interesting part was there were at least several versions of BBC1 available eg. BBC Wales, BBC Scotland, BBC Y&L (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire). Didn’t get the chance to view different local opt outs at the same time however though.

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Sounds like they had generic set top boxes or a Sky box without a viewing card?

Freesat boxes would omit all the encrypted Sky and TNT channels.

As part of Sky and Freesat BBC1, BBC2 (only Wales and Northern Ireland in addition to “Network”), ITV and Channel 4 (for adverts) have multiple feeds on Astra2. Sky boxes map the right version according to the adress on your subscription. Freesat boxes require you to enter a UK postcode for the right versions.

Though the BBC makes other versions available further up the LCN. ITV and C4 ommit this as they don’t really want people watching the “wrong” version.

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Yes, can’t remember what LCNs these were on, but I think they might have been in the 2xx range.

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Would be a generic box then.

Sky and freesat have them in the 950+ range.

There is a website that got the LCNs online. They are just plain XML transmitted on data stream.

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