avalon65 - 25 minutes ago »
Yes I found that there were not strictly duplicates of programs but of the channel name is what I should have said.
What I will do, sometime is to compare the listing on the Freesat epg to the listing of the non freesat channels I have got now.
I noticed quite a few shopping channels, as well a the QVC variants.
FTA channels join the Freesat epg and leave quite often. Frequently after leaving they cease broadcasting altogether on any satellite platform.
They often also move transponders or change the transmission paramaters.
Freesat handles all this automatically in the background. You would have to handle all these changes manually in non freesat (A channel moving transponder or changing broadast parameters would just not work anymore).
You can spend ages doing this and a week later the situation changes entirely. If you have Excel or a compatible download the auto version of my spreadsheet and look at the workbook that details the changes in channels that happen all the time. To keep up you would have to constantly manually update channels you have stored in non freesat mode.
Small extract :
29-Sep-16 Transponder change 503 B4U Music 11265 V to 11479 V
4-Oct-16 Name changes 153 True Drama to True Ent+ 1, 302 True Movies 1 to True Xmas and 303 True Movies 2 to True Xmas+ 1
5-Oct-16 Name change 719 Capital FM to Capital
20-Oct-16 Channel deleted 729 Jazz FM 11685 V
26-Oct-16 Name change 802 QVC Extra to QVC Christmas
31-Oct-16 Channel added 162 BLAZE 11082 H and Channel renamed 506 Heart TV to Heart Xmas
10-Nov-16 Name Change 513 NOW Music to NOW XMAS
17-Nov-16 Transponder Change 510 Magic 11426 V to 12304 H
24-Nov-16 411 Fashion One deleted from 11685 V
1-Dec-16 Transponder change 208 Bloomberg TV 11685 V to 11082 H, 609 POP MAX changed to Tiny Pop +1
3-Jan-17 Name Change 211 CCTV-NEWS to CGTN
5-Jan-17 Name Changes 302 True Xmas to True Movies, 303 True Xmas +1 to True Movies +1, 506 Heart Xmas to Heart TV, 513 NOW XMAS to Now 80's and QVC Christmas to QVC Extra
10-Jan-17 Transponder change 11953 H to 11493 H 801 QVC Beauty, 802 QVC Extra and 803 QVC Style
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