Five US, Five Life

My dad's box, an old Philips DTR1500 is even more confused...its' put two sets of FiveUS and Five Life up on 810-813!

It's about right - I can see the transmitter out of my front window - but I can't pick up "five" so of course my iDTV can' pick up US/Life either.

No wonder everyone on my road has Sky/Sky+

My box was playing up yesterday, I use an indoor aerial (amplified) but it does work and it does pick up something from all channels and MUXes, but I had to do a full rescan about three times yesterday to get back to normal. I did a rescan to add channels and it added more to the 800 list for some reason, then I did a full one and got everything but the BBC MUX and then third time lucky as the saying goes.

I do like the MHEG caption on Five Life, it looks very colourful.

Caradon Hill or Plympton relay ?

If CH, then you need to swap what is probabaly a Group A aerial for a Wideband.
Mux A (that carries C5 etc) is on UHF Ch 48, out of frequency range for a Group A

http://www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/tx_sw.html

Promos are now broadcasting on Five Life & US on Freeview. Also www.five.tv has been updated with Five Life & US programme information and a small facelift.

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And what a great promo loop on five Life. Long scenes from the programmes letting you see them for what they are, no voiceovers or music. five US seems to have frozen.

All EPG Numbers Revealed

Five US: Freeview 35, Sky 207, Cable 185
Five Life: Freeview 36, Sky 208, Cable 186

It's a shame they are high in the 200's on Sky in the Entertainment section.

Really strange promos to be honest though. Interesting though.

Also, the Combover promo on Five US has been running complete with the F-word all day!


And the Five Life promo shows a huge chunk of a future episode of Home and Away - nearly the biggest spoiler possible!



P.S. Now that all the TV guides have just about got their Freeview channels covered, it'll be time for another mini-revamp in order to squeeze the Five channels in!

I was expecting the standard 3 minute promo loop on both US and Life, but this is a nice treat, though when I put it on for a bit I saw a promo for Flight 93 on US and really obese people on Life. Though I'm certain I saw a clip of Happy Days on US earlier. Though they sound good and I'm looking foward to the launch.

At the end of Home and Away the new channels were promoted, and it was mentioned that FIVE Life will have Home and Away first look episodes the night before they air on Five.

It doesn't take Five US long to stray from it's remit. It's screening Newcastle's UEFA Cup match next Thursday night.


Now, do Newcastle have any American players?

No it's Plympton relay, and having rescanned today I noticed that I get nothing from Mux A at all. Oh well, have to watch it on Sky instead!