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**Chris** · 14-04-2011, 22:41

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It's just called 'Horror' these days. They dropped the 'zone' when CBS re-branded the whole package. There's no Zone Romantica or Zone Thriller any more either ... there's CBS Action, CBS Reality, CBS Drama and, for some reason, Horror with no CBS prefix.

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Anyways ... the CBS channels are on Eurobird 1, which has a far larger footprint than Astra 2D (as used by the BBC). I would have thought your scenario would be more likely reversed, i.e. you could get Eurobird channels like CBS and find you're missing the BBC.

IIRC the advice when the BBC started moving to the more narrowly-focused beam on Astra 2D was that people with less than perfectly aligned dishes risked finding their BBC reception compromised. I don't know how wide a problem this turned out to be though.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,202	Re: Problems of setting up your own Satellite dish <pedant> It's just called 'Horror' these days. They dropped the 'zone' when CBS re-branded the whole package. There's no Zone Romantica or Zone Thriller any more either ... there's CBS Action, CBS Reality, CBS Drama and, for some reason, Horror with no CBS prefix. </pedant> Anyways ... the CBS channels are on Eurobird 1, which has a far larger footprint than Astra 2D (as used by the BBC). I would have thought your scenario would be more likely reversed, i.e. you could get Eurobird channels like CBS and find you're missing the BBC. IIRC the advice when the BBC started moving to the more narrowly-focused beam on Astra 2D was that people with less than perfectly aligned dishes risked finding their BBC reception compromised. I don't know how wide a problem this turned out to be though.