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KEY: DVB: Digital, PAL : Analog, FTA: Free To Air

Pos

Operator

System

What you get

42E

Turksat

DVB

Turkish! mostly FTA

36E

Eutelsat / Seasat

DVB

Kurdish, Russian, Italian. Mostly FTA

28.5

Czechlink / Eutelsat

DVB

Czech Cryptoworks. SomeFTA Dutch & German

28E

Sky / Astra

DVB

Almost 250 English Channels: HERE is list compiled on 6th Feb 2001
Many Radio stations on Digibox

26E

Arabsat

DVB

Arabic FTA + Euronews FTA

23E

DFS2

DVB

German Iredeto. Perhaps some English, Chinese, Polish, Turk, Portugese, Greek

19E

Sky/Astra

DVB

Mostly German. 79 FTA as of Jan 2001. Many FTA work on Digibox.
FTA Digital Radio

19E

Sky/Astra

PAL

Over 22 German FTA. Mix of Free and Videocrypt in English. Some Others.
Over 30 Free Radio stations. English, French, German.

19E

Sky/Astra

ADR

Now obsolescent Astra Digital Radio System

16E

Eutelsat

PAL

Nile TV from Eygpt in English /French. About 10 Middle East Stations (Mostly Arabic)

16E

Eutelsat

DVB

Some FTA Dutch & English (Not Digibox). Italian, Romanian, Russian, Croat &. Serb.

13E

Eutelsat

(HotBirds)

DVB

Possibly over 100 FTA. Over 43 Nationalities + additional languages. Many encrypted packages for Italy and German Speakers. Many English, POP, Jazz etc. Most FTA work on Digibox
Euronews FTA, European Union FTA news/feeds, 3 Angels Broadcasting Network. Motor Racing, Art, Sailing channels. Easily more than 25 interesting FTA for Digibox.
BBC Prime in Viacess (not Digibox).
Many FTA radio including English.

13E

Eutelsat (Hotbirds)

PAL

BBC World TV, DW TV (english/German), Trinity Broadcasting Network, Arte, La Cinq. TV5. Many Polish. Only Canal+Polska and Canal H Polska encrypted. RAI1, 2 & 3. Some Radio. Eurosport.

10E

Eutelsat

DVB

Mostly Turkish. Nothing for Digibox.

10E

Eutelsat

PAL

Turkish, Serbian. 1 part time English (Herbalife)

7E

Eutelsat

DVB

A Few Digibox FTA . Other FTA and encrypted: Turkish, French, English, Polish, Italian, German.

7E

Eutelsat

PAL?

Feeds

5E

Sirius

DVB

Scandinavian. Mostly Encrypted . DreamNet (4ch English).

No Digibox chs. Spanish, Hindi, Russian

5E

Sirius

D2MAC

Scandinavian. Mostly Encrypted. Some PAL (Greek, English)

0.8 / 1

Thor / Intelsat

DVB

(No Digibox). Mostly Conax. English, Scandinavian, Slovak

0.8 / 1

Thor / Intelsat

D2MAC

English, Scandinavian. mostly encrypted

5W

Intelsat

DVB

Dutch, French (Belgium). Might be 1 Dutch on Digibox FTA

5W

Telecom

Secam

French (Mono picture on PAL TV)

7W

NileSat

DVB

Lots of FTA Arabic. Irdeto English. The Arabic should work on Digibox. Need 1.2M dish

7W

NileSat

PAL

Arabic FTA

12.5

Eutelsat

 DVB

Portugese Encrypted

15W

Telstar

DVB

Some FTA English. Nothing for Digibox

18W

Intelsat

DVB

Nothing for Digibox. FTA Romanian, PowerVu CH5 UK

37W

Hispasat

DVB

Nagravision. Spanish. Might have some FTA for Digibox

Check out Lyngsat for current frequencies, Polarisation, SR, FEC and encryption. 

While Sky may close its analog services by June 2001 and in the long term Analog Terrestial and Analog Satellite TV is doomed, plenty of services have actually commenced on analog satellite. Some of the older transponders are not suitable or ideal for digital, thus may carry analog till the end of life of the satellite. A satellite may have a design life. But many of the transponders will work for years after that date. As long as it works at all, it costs very little, so the owner will sell the air space!

Conclusion:

For English speaker and also various Pop video, Jazz, Lifestyle, Art etc the best selection for Analog is: 19E, 16E, 13E.

For Digibox the basic selection is 28E, 19E, 13E. Other possibilities are 23E, 7E, 7W. These need bigger dish.

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