A new service identifying itself as Racing UK has appeared at LCN 116
on the Arqiva B mux UHF channel 48 on Sandy Heath. Just a blank screen
at the moment and the EPG says no info available.
Could it be this lot?
http://www.racinguk.com/

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UnsteadyKen wrote:
A new service identifying itself as Racing UK has appeared at LCN 116
on the Arqiva B mux UHF channel 48 on Sandy Heath. Just a blank screen
at the moment and the EPG says no info available.
Could it be this lot?
http://www.racinguk.com/

I'm sure it is - the MHEG screen has the same logo as that website.

It's not a 'real' channel - it's part of the 'Connect' stable (LCNs 113-115)
who provide streaming tv channels via your internet connection. This is why
the MHEG screen says 'launching on Freeview HD'; the programming isn't HD
(almost certainly), but HD tvs are obliged to have both an internet
connection and the MHEG software which Connect's IPtv uses.

André Coutanche

There really is a lot of dross on Freeview. I mean, it surely cannot be that
everyone is sitting there wanting to buy naff jewelry while using Ideal
Worlds gfacial massager and Qvcs dodgy clothing sales seem just too hard to
take.
Incidentally, what is the point of all those closed off channels. How does
one know how to get them? Nothing seems to be in the program guide.
Brian

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A new service identifying itself as Racing UK has appeared at LCN 116
on the Arqiva B mux UHF channel 48 on Sandy Heath. Just a blank screen
at the moment and the EPG says no info available.
Could it be this lot?
http://www.racinguk.com/

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Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

Its all far too complicated.

Brian

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"André Coutanche" wrote in message
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UnsteadyKen wrote:
A new service identifying itself as Racing UK has appeared at LCN 116
on the Arqiva B mux UHF channel 48 on Sandy Heath. Just a blank screen
at the moment and the EPG says no info available.
Could it be this lot?
http://www.racinguk.com/

I'm sure it is - the MHEG screen has the same logo as that website.

It's not a 'real' channel - it's part of the 'Connect' stable (LCNs
113-115) who provide streaming tv channels via your internet connection.
This is why the MHEG screen says 'launching on Freeview HD'; the
programming isn't HD (almost certainly), but HD tvs are obliged to have
both an internet connection and the MHEG software which Connect's IPtv
uses.

André Coutanche

André Coutanche wrote...

This is why
the MHEG screen says 'launching on Freeview HD'

Ah, HD; that must be why I can't see anything on my SD Sony STB and the
SD BT Vision Box is complaining about signal quality.
Ta.

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http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

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André Coutanche writes:
UnsteadyKen wrote:
A new service identifying itself as Racing UK has appeared at LCN 116
on the Arqiva B mux UHF channel 48 on Sandy Heath. Just a blank screen
at the moment and the EPG says no info available.
Could it be this lot?
http://www.racinguk.com/

I'm sure it is - the MHEG screen has the same logo as that website.

It's not a 'real' channel - it's part of the 'Connect' stable (LCNs 113-115)
who provide streaming tv channels via your internet connection. This is why
the MHEG screen says 'launching on Freeview HD'; the programming isn't HD
(almost certainly), but HD tvs are obliged to have both an internet
connection and the MHEG software which Connect's IPtv uses.

I think that it's a "real" channel, just not a real one on Freeview. I
believe that it's a subscription channel that you can get via satellite,
in addition to as you describe via Connect.
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John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw

John Hall wrote:
I think that it's a "real" channel, just not a real one on Freeview. I
believe that it's a subscription channel that you can get via
satellite, in addition to as you describe via Connect.

You're right, of course - I did indeed mean that it wasn't 'real' on
Freeview/DTT in the sense that it wasn't (won't be - it hasn't started yet)
transmitted over ye olde Hertzian ether.

André Coutanche

UnsteadyKen wrote:
André Coutanche wrote...

This is why
the MHEG screen says 'launching on Freeview HD'

Ah, HD; that must be why I can't see anything on my SD Sony STB and
the SD BT Vision Box is complaining about signal quality.
Ta.

You're welcome - and thank you to you for flagging it up. But you don't need
an HD tv to see the MHEG screen which I described - I'm seeing it on my SD
Sony Bravia. Mind you, my Topfield 5800 PVR *doesn't* show the MHEG screen
properly - but it's a bit flaky about MHEG anyway.

André Coutanche

André Coutanche wrote...

I'm seeing it on my SD
Sony Bravia.

My Sony stb is now showing the screen too, they must be in the process
of setting things up.
I'm surprised that I couldn't find any news or announcements on the web
about it, thought they would be making a song and dance.

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