SATFACTS: Live Cinema Broadcast Transmission Information

We understand there are RX difficulties in London due to heavy rain. The satellites are running at full power, we are doing everything we can to help, but these difficulties are caused by conditions local to the effected receiver.

Services established and stable on IS10-02 at 14:23GMT and AB3 at 14:30GMT.

Confirm AB3 is transmitting at full power.

Tx test begins at 14:30GMT / 15:30 BST / 16:30 CEST. Helpline operational from 14:15 GMT

The Il Trovatore production schedule is now published here and on the www.satfacts.co.uk website. We apologise for the late arrival of this document from the USA.

Following email feedback, it appears that AB3 was not as strong a signal as usual this morning. Having investigated, the UK teleport were not running at our usual power on the AB3 uplink. Rest assured that I will be at the UK teleport on Saturday and ensure the correct power level is transmitted. We apologise for any difficulties you may have experienced.

All services down at 09:01 GMT – No calls.

All services established and stable at 08:24 GMT

Testing begins on IS10-02 (Eng Only) and AB3 at 08:30GMT/09:30BST/10:30CEST. Helpline operational from 08:15GMT

All services down at 20:05 GMT. We appologise for the vision disturbance at 19:18GMT and hope it did not spoil your audiences enjoyment too much.

See you on the next one.

Vision disturbance at 19:18GMT traced to frame rate converter in USA before encoding for satellite / fibre transmission. We frame rate convert as US uses 1080/60i for capture and we need 1080/50i for UK and Europe