UPC Direct on ASTRA will expire on 30 September 2010

UPC Direct on ASTRA will expire on 30 September 2010

Last month, UPC platform on Astra. Luxembourg UPC DTH provider of satellite pay-TV Central UPC Direct, is in the final stage of wrapping dishes their customers from a position 19.2 degrees East (ASTRA) at 0.8°W (Thor satellites). The company therefore decided to terminate September 30, 2010 broadcast of their programs on the main satellite system - namely Astra Luxembourg satellite operator SES Astra. After that date, the programs and services provided exclusively by the operator of the new position of 0.8°W.

Customers who have previously not responded to written or telephone contacts with the operator to resolve the last month of an upgrade to a satellite system Thor. Flip the dish can technically proficient customer to himself, possibly this action delegate assembly company. A client who does not want or can not let you rewind the dish to a new position, may 15 September (septembra) 2010 to terminate the contract. Shorten the notice period and the contract to September 30, 2010. That is, when the Astra platform ends.

UPC Direct currently at 19.2°E operates a total of 5 transponder in DVB-S. Other programs are provided by other operators (MTV Networks, ESPN America / ORF Digital). Capacity after the end of September is likely to break down the pay-TV providers in Western Europe.

technical parameters of transponders at 19.2°E:

Astra (19,2°E), freq. 10,920 GHz, pol. H, SR 22000, FEC 5/6, DVB-S/QPSK
Astra (19,2°E), freq. 11,671 GHz, pol. H, SR 22000, FEC 5/6, DVB-S/QPSK
Astra (19,2°E), freq. 11,992 GHz, pol. H, SR 27500, FEC 3/4, DVB-S/QPSK
Astra (19,2°E), freq. 12,304 GHz, pol. H, SR 27500, FEC 3/4, DVB-S/QPSK
Astra (19,2°E), freq. 12,382 GHz, pol. H, SR 27500, FEC 3/4, DVB-S/QPSK

UPC DTH, which since June of this year, operates the oldest digital satellite pay television in our country, last summer, signed a Scandinavian satellite operator Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) contract for 7 transponders on satellites Thor 5 and Thor 6, which will become the new home for this platform.

Test broadcasts from satellites Thor UPC launches DTH in late March this year, the official broadcast in early May, 2010th Since that date, the broadcast runs from the old program offers a new satellite. Thor satellites operate at a different position and it is therefore necessary to make Flip the dish to a new position on equal 20 degrees west.

UPC provides DTH services of new positions in the four countries - the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary UPC Direct brand in Romania under the name Focus Sat. Total have both platforms available to 10 transponders (7 for Direct + 3 for the Focus). Other programs are offered in conjunction with Canal Digital Group, the Nordic pay-TV provider Canal Digital. The new position provides UPC DTH wider range of programming, including a wide variety of channels in high definition video.