Good afternoon and welcome to the last Met Opera of the 2011/12 season.
Testing starts at 1445GMT, 1545BST(UK), 1645CEST (Europe).
There are feeds on IS10-02 with English, German and Russian subtitles. French and Spanish are available on AB3. Telstar 12 has got an English feed too.
The main programme begins at 1700GMT/1800BST/1900CEST
Good morning.
At 0930BST/1030CET we have the last test for the 2011/12 Met Opera Season.
I am sure you have all got the hang of it by now, but do call your local Helpline or support if you need assistance.
Chris
There are some POWER PROBLEMS in NY. Hence the couple of service losses.
We are now trying to recover the subtitles to you too.
Good Afternoon to all Met Opera partners.
We are now setting up in the MCR and the Testing will start at 1345GMT/1445BST(UK)/1545CEST(Europe).
I am sure you have all got it gripped it by now, but do call your appointed Helpline if you need reception advice.
Today we have got 3 services on IS-1002 with English, German and Russian subtitles. There are also English subtitles on Telstar 12. If you want French or Spanish subtitles, then you need to be tuned on AB-3.
The Test for your alignment on IS-1002 or on AB3 is this morning at 0930BST/1030CEST (0830GMT).
Call your Helpline is you have any reception related issues. Call your in-house support if you have any local equipment issues.
Pre transmission testing begins at 16:00GMT/17:00BST/18:00CEST
Services established on both channels at 16:52GMT
16:25GMT/17:25BST – Problems with 110688 conference for Cityscreens helpline. Now resolved.
Services ceased at 21:00GMT on both channels – Goodnight all.
Just preping for this mornings test.
Services due on air at 10:00GMT/11:00BST/12:00CEST
Services established at 09:51GMT showing colour bars and UKI 1368 ident
Test tape to line at 09:55GMT but no subs on subs channel
Subs to line on subs channel 09:59GMT
There are slight audio issues here in the uplink causing occasional drops
Audio issue fixed at 10:15GMT
Further audio splats at 10:39GMT – caused by issue at NT uplink
Services ceased on both channels at 11:00GMT
Just preparing for this mornings test.
The test signal will be on air at 10:00GMT/11:00BST/12:00CEST.
Clean and Subs channel established at 09:53GMT
Services ceased at 11:00GMT
Some cinemas have issues with sync. We have contacted the teleport and they are trying to adjust. Thank you for your patience.
The test starts at 1800GMT and the programme begins at 1900GMT.
Please look at the notes in the earlier blog posts (e.g. use “Thor” if your receiver does not have IS-1002 listed)
You can call 08444 737373 and enter PIN 270661 for help with IS-1002 tuning queries
There will be additional Tests from 1430-1500GMT and this evening it will start at 1800GMT. you may need to delete this morning’s channel and re-tune.
For all who failed to get it this morning (and also didn’t get it on Tuesday) please use this resource.
NOTE: your tuning instructions refer to IS10-02. If your receiver’s satellite list does not have this, use THOR instead. It works the same.
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