Re: ESPN America gone off-air?
 

At least I can listen in to the Phillies @ Braves on 5Live Sports Extra while I wait for the problem to be fixed.

Apparently Universal is down as well.

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http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ir/td-p/497201

Re: ESPN America gone off-air?
 

Are they both on the same satellite transponders ?

Affecting these channels on satellite

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1476732

Re: ESPN America gone off-air?
 

I can't get ESPN HD but I can get ESPN fine. No ESPNAmerica either. Frustrating...

Re: ESPN America gone off-air?
 

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ESPN, ESPN HD and ESPN Classic are all fine here, it's just ESPN America that's down.

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Looks like there's some progress. ESPN America's back, although there's no sound.

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And now the sound's back. :)

Re: ESPN America gone off-air?
 

I can get them all now. Maybe they fixed it.

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They're still having a few problems. ESPN America is currently showing ESPN's dead-air loop instead of their own one.

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It is a transponder problem , not VM fault.

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531 is OK here in CM20.

I never enjoyed playing rounders, well baseball :D

Re: ESPN America gone off-air?
 

I never said it was VM's fault. The post you quoted was referring to a hiccup at ESPN's end. ;)

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Sky are also aware of the issue

http://www.sky.com/helpcentre/servic...ky+TV?DCMP=SNT

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I know you didn't mate I was just reiterating it was a Satellite issue :)

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I wish I'd got the chance to play baseball when I was at school. All we got to play was crappy rounders at juniors and 1 game of softball at seniors (although I did hit a home run).

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Looks like we've been switched to the Middle East feed while they sort the problem. The SportsCenter ad just had the time listed in GMT and KSA (Saudi time). Nice work-around. :)

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Isn't it just.

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that ESPN's HD pictures are generally better than Sky Sports HD pictures, but don't really understand why it should be. Even their Premier League football pictures often seem to look better than Sky's.

ESPNA HD looks fantastic, NBA (which I really can't stand) and college football pictures look great.

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The other good thing with ESPNA HD is that 90% of the content is actually in HD as well.