FTA - Men & Motors

finto · 05-05-2009 2:31pm #1

Anyone noticed m&m has dissapeard from the FTA. Or has it just moved frequency. Also Bubble hits is gone burst.

Sonic_exyouth · 05-05-2009 2:45pm

finto wrote: »

Anyone noticed m&m has dissapeard from the FTA. Or has it just moved frequency. Also Bubble hits is gone burst.

bubble hits has been broke a long while now, a victim of the Credit crunch.

men and Motors is moving, it is presumed to another sat to free space for Ch4 HD on Astra. It's barely watched.

Rick_ · 05-05-2009 2:52pm

M&M has moved and it's old signal turned off. When tuning in the new frequency, select the second audio stream rather than the default one as it has a higher bitrate so better sound quality.

It's not yet known why M&M has moved, but it appears ITV are going to regig some of their channels maybe to try and get the regions on 2A back onto 2D so they can go FTA again. Or maybe it was to test what they can achieve so maybe ITV HD can move onto 2D... no-one knows just yet, but with the recent ITV 1 West Country tests where the resolution was upped to 720x576 and the bitrate increased to ~10Mbps (what ITV HD currently broadcasts at), it seems like something may be happening soon...

mjsmyth · 05-05-2009 2:54pm

Men & Motors should be found here:

10891.00 - H - 22000 - 5/6

pbirney · 05-05-2009 8:55pm

Paddy C wrote: »

M&M has moved and it's old signal turned off. When tuning in the new frequency, select the second audio stream rather than the default one as it has a higher bitrate so better sound quality.

It's not yet known why M&M has moved, but it appears ITV are going to regig some of their channels maybe to try and get the regions on 2A back onto 2D so they can go FTA again. Or maybe it was to test what they can achieve so maybe ITV HD can move onto 2D... no-one knows just yet, but with the recent ITV 1 West Country tests where the resolution was upped to 720x576 and the bitrate increased to ~10Mbps (what ITV HD currently broadcasts at), it seems like something may be happening soon...

According to a post on Digitalspy, the d-sat signal from ITV1 Westcountry has been feeding the analogue signals for Stockland Hill & Caradon Hill transmitters since March 2009. That's probably the reason for the increased bitrate.