Thread: SD Sky Discovery (potential) switch-off (technical)
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Old 27-01-2017, 13:35   #7
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Re: Sky Discovery (potential) switch-off (technical)
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Originally Posted by Onramp View Post
I see - I was under the impression that most of it came down from Astra via rack mounted satellite receivers. This used to be the case in the late 90's at least when I saw inside a hub site. Although the signals come from the master headend now, I had the impression that it was still fed via Sky for the most part - although this might be less and less true nowadays.
Some of it no doubt comes from Astra, there is also a capability of receiving several other satellites & from Freeview DTT, as the attached image shows:
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