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Kiwisat is FTA on 67°W

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 10:06 am
by dishon
67°W
DVB-S2X 8 psk
11860 H
SR 49000
Pilot On

BTN
Destination America
Telemundo
Animal Planet Latin America
HH Latin America
TLC Latin America
ID Latin America
SCI FI Latin America
Turbo Latin America
Theater Latin America
World Latin America
Gol TV
Teen Nick
Fox Life
Kids Central
Fusion
Telemircro
RCN
NBC PR
Telemundo
Punto2
WAPA
WAPA2
WIPR
Univision
Teleisla

It is a new dbs service called Kiwisat transmitting in HEVC HD. A bunch of other muxes are currently encrypted. Southern USA/Caribbean beam only.

Regards,
dishon

Re: Kiwisat is FTA on 67°W

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 12:41 pm
by Dusan
Well, this is interesting, going work on this tonight. Thanks for the info.

Re: Kiwisat is FTA on 67°W

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 1:01 pm
by tvroadmin
It sounds like another Orby TV. Even cheaper, only $60 USD for the receiver and $25 USD/month to subscribe.

https://www.kiwisatcaribbean.com/hardware

https://www.kiwisatcaribbean.com/plan

And they are cramming a ton of hevc channels into a 49,000 symbol rate transponder.

Bad news for DirecTV Caribbean and Dish Puerto Rico. Are these guys still using mpeg2 and 20,000 symbol rates? :lol:

Good news for consumers!!

Re: Kiwisat is FTA on 67°W

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 1:05 pm
by tvroadmin
If anyone is in the southern USA or Mexico or Caribbean, please log their transport stream and let us know some technical details like bit rate for their HD hevc channels and how the picture quality looks. I'm sure many will be interested. Will give it a try if I have time.

Re: Kiwisat is FTA on 67°W

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:07 am
by dishcrank
I can't lock these so I can't comment on them, but it was reported at Rick's that there is quite a bit more content on 67w. At least 3 muxes.

11800 H 49000
DVB-S2X 8psk
FEC 13/18

11860 H 49000
DVB-S2X 8psk
FEC 13/18

11920 H 49000
DVB-S2X 8psk
FEC 13/18

Stingray music channels are FTA in the 11920 mux.