They fix little bits every now and then. For example, you can see they’ve attempted to replace the Orange and Wagga bulletins in the EPG with a placeholder titled “-”, but they haven’t deleted all of them, only the first showing of the day. So Orange and Wagga still show up in the guide for 90% of the day. I can guarantee you it will now stay that way for at least a year. It’s just so frustrating that no one has any attention to detail. They just need to get in there and clean it all up.
Here’s how I would improve VAST’s WIN News service post-WIN axing. Just shuffle some bulletins over and there.
401 WIN News Cairns/Townsville
402 WIN News Rockhampton/Sunshine Coast
403 WIN News Wollongong/Canberra
404 WIN News Gippsland/Bendigo
405 WIN News Shepparton/Ballarat
406 WIN News Tasmania/Nine News Darwin
All other channels as normal, but reshuffled. Possibly add some Nine News SCA channels as well?
Well, many DVB-T transmitters use VAST for their distribution!
I know down here in Hobart, SBS use VAST for their primary STL, and the ABC use it as their standby STL. They use professional (Ericsson) receivers though, not your typical consumer UEC or Satking…
SBS HD and SBS World Movies finally showed up this morning, but there is no EPG yet. Good to see WM ended up being HD despite SBS saying it would be SD. The remaining SBS ONE SD’s are still sitting there off-air, so I do wonder what they have planned for them.
AFIAK the Vast cams and Recievers are for the commercial channels. ABC and SBS have purpose build feeds on 160e.
Meaning if you take VAST as a source you have take every channel seperate with it’s own reciever and feed all these into a muxer that creates the DVB-T signal.
With those feeds all you need is one device that remuxes the whole DVB-S2 Signal with all it’s channels including metadata and everything into DVB-T. The advantage of this is that all changes on the sattelite signal are automatically mirrored on the terestrial side, like adding a channel.
Also it does not have to re-encode the channels. Even with HD channels that are MPEG4 both on VAST and DVB-T the recievers on site have to decode the channel and reencode it to make sure all channels fit on the DVB-T signal. With those types of feeds they ususally make sure the overall DVB-S signal has the same bandwith as a DVB-T signal.
Though I guess they still may have VAST eqipment on the ready as a backup?
They put updates from Nine News Regional on 410, but they don’t mention them on this placeholder, in the EPG or in the channel name so I’m not sure why they bother.
