Good Morning.
A reminder that there is a Test this morning for the More2Screen event ahead of the broadcast on this evening.
It starts at 1000BST(UK+Ireland) and 1100CEST(W.Europe)
This is a DVBS/QPSK transmission.
Call your published Helpline if you have any difficulties tuning to the feed.
Good luck!
Apologies for the delay. There was an issue at the teleport but all feeds on IS-1002 were established at 1449GMT.
I trust that you all have a successful broadcast this afternoon.
UPDATE: Apologies for the delay in the feeds reaching IS-1002. Seems our friends at the teleport have got a broken transmitter dish. They are busy outside trying to fix it. Sorry
Good afternoon and welcome to another Season of the Met Opera.
All feeds are dues at 1430GMT/1530UK/1630WEurope.
REMEMBER: this year all feeds are DVBS-2/QPSK/Pilot OFF
Call your in-house helpline if you cannot tune. After so many years of practice I am sure that won’t apply to you.
Just reading all the equipment for our NT Live international transmission. 6 satellites, 3 teleports and 1 mobile uplink terminal here in London.
Pre transmission testing begins at 16:00GMT – 17:00BST – 18:00CEST
There will be a flashing test signal together with an audio sync plop running between 17:15 and 17:30GMT
Test signals to air on both channels at 15:51GMT
There are slight video and audio glitches on the music and dance sequence of this Test period – This is a problem at the NT. Please do not adjust your end.
Video and audio glitch resolved at 17:01GMT
Services ceased at 21:50 – Clean and Stable transmission
Test signals due on air at 10:00GMT – 11:00BST – 12:00CEST
Both channels established at 09:49GMT
10:50GMT – Black bars noted at bottom of picture – This is an issue at origin and will be corrected before next TX
Services ceased at 11:04GMT
Test signals due on air at 10:00GMT – 11:00BST – 12:00CEST
As usual, we will be on the helpline ready for your calls should you need assistance.
Both channels on air at 09:48GMT
Both channels ceased at 11:00GMT – Clean and stable except for brief disturbance at 10:48GMT
UPDATE: Both feeds are established and stable with good margins and c/n. Hope all goes well for you too.
A reminder that there is a Test this morning at 0830GMT/0930BST(UK+Ireland)/1030CEST(W.Europe)
There will be a feed on IS-1002 with English subtitles.
There will be a feed on Eut5wa/AB3 with Spanish and French subtitles
There are NOT feeds on IS-1002 with either German or Russian subtitles. Use the English feed to check your ability to tune and the serviceability of your equipment.
All feeds are DVBS-2/QPSK/Pilot OFF
Good luck for the start of this new Season of Met Opera.
p.s. there will be a 1-hr Test on Telstar 12 tomorrow (9th) at 1200GMT
The teleport tell me they are having a few problems with Telenor in accessing the IS-1002 satellite (AB3/Eut5w and T12 are all stable)
Apologies for the delay in bringing you the Test on IS-1002.
UPDATE: All became good at 0842GMT. (Seems Telenor thought it was reasonable to have 1x engineer to manage the talk-up of my 5x feeds this morning, and also demand a lengthy x-pol check too.) Hmmm.
Good Morning to all you Met Opera Cinema partners.
At 0830GMT/0930UK/1030CEST we are having a 1hr pre-Season Test on IS-1002 (with separate feeds of English, German and Russian subtitles), on Eut5W/AB3 (with French and Spanish subtitles) and Telstar 12 (with English subtitles)
All feeds are DVBS-2/QPSK/Pilot OFF
If you have trouble, please call your designated Helpline facility.
Good luck for this start to the new Season.
Chris and all the Support Team from Met Opera
The feeds on IS-1002 (in-coming from Russia), Eutelsat5W(old AB3) and IS-905 are all stable.
See note below for tuning hints
SATFACTS: Live Cinema Broadcast Transmission Information 