Originally Posted by Aguero9320 (Post 35882815)

A potential tactic for Discovery to take is to close down Quest and allow DMAX to go FTA.

Originally Posted by Aguero9320 (Post 35882815)

A potential tactic for Discovery to take is to close down Quest and allow DMAX to go FTA. Furthermore, I would keep Discovery, Discovery Science, Animal Planet, TLC, ID and Eurosport 1 & 2 HD behind a pay wall and allow the re-launched DMAX, Discovery History, Discovery Turbo, Discovery Shed, Home & Health and Eurosport 1 & 2 SD to become available to Freeview and Freesat as well.

Originally Posted by Aguero9320 (Post 35882815)

A potential tactic for Discovery to take is to close down Quest and allow DMAX to go FTA. Furthermore, I would keep Discovery, Discovery Science, Animal Planet, TLC, ID and Eurosport 1 & 2 HD behind a pay wall and allow the re-launched DMAX, Discovery History, Discovery Turbo, Discovery Shed, Home & Health and Eurosport 1 & 2 SD to become available to Freeview and Freesat as well.

Originally Posted by Bananaman_007 (Post 35882827)

This has been brewing for a few years. Not sure if you all remember the failed launch of Quest on Freeview? Well i have it on good authority that it was Sky that was the reason behind this. Discovery planned to launch Quest with a range of programming that had only just aired or was about to air on the main Discovery channels. Sky got its legal team involved as they believed that Discovery were in breach of contract with regards to showing its content on other channels.

Discovery had to basically scrap 80% of its proposed line up and had to ready different content for Quest which is why it took a few months after the original date to come on air.

Sky have also reduced the amount it pays to some other content providers which is one of the reasons Home appeared on Freeview. Sky wanted to pay a certain amount for the UKTV channels which like we have seen with Discovery was lower then the current amount. The agreement was Home would not be included in the new deal therefore making it available for Freeview when previously it was part of a pay tv deal with Sky that prevented that.

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That may not be needed the Tru Tv slots on Freeview are up for sale and people on Digitalspy seem to think it was Discovery who were the highest bidders. My inital thought was that Eurosport or a version of would come to Freeview due to Discovery need to broadcast a percentage of its Olympics coverage on Freeview. However i am wondering in if in the mean time they may use this for DMax.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35882929)

Discovery have been testing two new frequencies off the Sky EPG.

First they were showing foreign feeds from their international channels, now they are showing Discovery Shed +1 and Home & Health +2.

Not sure if these are connected to the dispute or not.

Originally Posted by dodgem22 (Post 35882447)

Does anyone know when the current deal is up please?

Originally Posted by alwaysabear (Post 35882449)

I believe its in 2019.

Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35882454)

Quite awhile left on it i think 2019 MB would know more.

Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 35882455)

Viceland has popped up on TV Anywhere (channel 215) with a Coming Soon listing so the launch must be imminent.

Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 35883082)

Not at all related.

Discovery Shed and Home & Health recently moved from the old Lifestyle section to the Entertainment section on the EPG, they will lose their two previous slots unless they put something on them.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35883098)

Viceland has appeared on TV Anywhere (channel 215) with a Coming Soon listing so the launch must be imminent.

Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 35883118)

Yes that's what I posted on here 4 days ago...

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...5#post35882455

...any particular reason why you have copied and pasted my exact words?

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35883116)

Base on info we have WORLDBOX International Packs prices news:

-FRENCH BOUQUET - £6.99 p/month
BFM TV
Euro Channel

-POLISH IMPREZA - £8.00 p/month
No channels on this pack as far as we know...

-RUSSIAN PREMIYERA - £10.00 p/month
CTC

-SPANISH VIVA -£5.99 p/month
Canal 24 Horas (Spain).
VIVA

-PORTUGUESE COLETA -£6.99 p/month
-Coleta
-Sic International

We just got this information from our sources (Channel names not confirm).

Due to not having TiVo can anyone confirm?

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35883120)

In this thread we share information received for the benefit of others.

It is not some sort of competition and it does sometimes occur where information is duplicated.

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35883116)

Base on info we have WORLDBOX International Packs prices news:

-FRENCH BOUQUET - £6.99 p/month
BFM TV
Euro Channel

-POLISH IMPREZA - £8.00 p/month
No channels on this pack as far as we know...

-RUSSIAN PREMIYERA - £10.00 p/month
CTC

-SPANISH VIVA -£5.99 p/month
Canal 24 Horas (Spain).
VIVA

-PORTUGUESE COLETA -£6.99 p/month
-Coleta
-Sic International

We just got this information from our sources (Channel names not confirm).

Due to not having TiVo can anyone confirm?

Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 35883122)

-ARABIC

Nessma is free

Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 35883122)

I've just checked, the correct details are:

-FRENCH BOUQUET - £6.99 p/month
France 2
France 3
France 5
Cartoon TV (Coming Soon)

BFM TV and Eurochannel are free

-POLISH IMPREZA - £8.00 p/month
iTVN
iTVN Extra
TVN 24

-RUSSIAN PREMIYERA - £10.00 p/month
Planeta HD
Moolt
Bestseller

CTC is free

-SPANISH VIVA - £5.99 p/month
Antena 3
Atreseries (aka A3Series)
MIS
TVE

Canal 24 Horas and VIVA are free

-PORTUGUESE COLETA - £6.99 p/month
Benfica TV
TVI International
TVI Ficcao
Crinca TV

Sic International is free

-EUROPEAN

TGCOM24, 1 +1 and TVRI are free

-ARABIC

Nessma is free

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I don't see the point of "sharing" information which has already been posted by someone else only a few days ago by copying and pasting it. That's deliberately duplicating information for no reason, and is of no benefit to anyone on here.

Originally Posted by jj20x (Post 35883210)

I was looking at those over the weekend and found it a little strange that the separate Spanish / Portuguese pay apps have been dropped and the foreign pay tv channels had been lumped in with the free ones in the main Worldbox app. Possibly a little confusing to anyone not noticing the BUY logo on the pay tv channels and thinking that these are just extra free channels.

The price points are possibly a little high. I would have thought that anyone desperate to receive these channels would have been using "unofficial" streaming services for quite some time. It could be difficult to persuade such people to pay for this service, rather than use the "unofficial" streams offering the same channels plus many more but for zero cost. In short, the packages seem to be lightweight and overpriced.

Russian channel CTC is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, so STS in the Roman / Latin alphabet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS_(TV_channel)

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Still no "Hafla" for the Arabic bouquet...