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Subject: Re: BBC Radio 1 and 3

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John A.

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Date Posted: 10:36:30 01/12/04 Mon
In reply to: dudu 's message, "Re: BBC Radio 1 and 3" on 03:44:12 01/12/04 Mon

>>Just wondered what sort of audio quality the Germans
>>and French are giving their satellite radio listeners
>>-- haven't found a way of getting this information
>>yet. There doesn't seem to be that option on my Humax.
>
>If it is a 5400 and you upgrade it with the excellent
>(of course unofficial...) TOH 3.2 software, you will
>be able to see very interesting things...
>For example, B4 Klassik (German radio) broadcasts at
>256kbps, stereo - and, if I am not mistaken, twice a
>week in multichannel format (not sure about that
>though - I saw something somewhere, but I cannot
>verify it)
>France Musique, Radio Classique, Hector etc. (French
>classical stations) broadcast on the TPS package on
>Hotbird (13 E) at 256/stereo, and on the
>CanalSatellite package (Astra 19,2E) at 192/stereo.
>Swiss, Spanish, Greek, Italian similar radios - all at
>192 or better.
>I'll know about the (arguably) best station of this
>kind (the Dutch Concertzender) when i buy a
>subscription to the Dutch Canal+ - Humax cannot see
>the bitrates for channels it cannot receive.
>(Concertzender is semi-private, and has the most
>exciting programming I know of - check it out at
>www.concertzender.nl)
>In conclusin - there is no "quality" station in Europe
>that broadcasts at less than 192 - and only few use
>the Joint mode (instead of stero)
>BTW - all 4 BBC channels in Eutelsat, before becoming
>encrypted, were broadcasting at 192/joint.

Swedish Radio has some multichannel files you can download and burn onto a CD http://www.sr.se/multikanal/english/e_index.stm
....also some DTS 5.1 test channels on the Sirius satellite (3� E). But I have not heard actual broadcasts. I cannot find anything comparable from the BBC.

Apparently the recent BBC radio production of Under Milk Wood was NOT broadcast in surround sound, but WAS available for download in 5.1 (no longer) provided you had Windows Media Player 9 AND an IP address in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/under_milk_wood_surround.shtml

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