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Originally Posted by Horizon
....only a guess from me, but I assume once the Olympics is finished, VM will then launch the channels as they'll be several HD and SD slots available.
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Transport streams 22 & 23 are the ones generally used for these pop-up channels. The new channel placeholders are pointing at transport streams 2, 7, 8, 9 and 11, so won't have to wait for the BBC Olympics channels to end.
The Sky Sports Mix HD placeholder points at TSid 23 which is currently carrying BBC Olympics HD 4 to 8. I would think that 5 MPEG2 HD services on a single transport stream would be too many, so you probably right about that one.
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Originally Posted by Horizon
But thanks for confirming that these channels do exist!  |
That confirmation from SP was quite a surprise.
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Originally Posted by Derekb108
They won't need the spare capacity anymore for olympics because bbc won't be hosting them anymore as of 2018 winter olympic's Eurosport has the rights...
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The BBC's stated aim is to wind down broadcast red button channels over time and replace them with connected red button IPTV streams. So demand for temporary spare capacity should reduce over time.