Help with bbc world on hotbird

Hello everybody, first post so here goes.
I used to be able to recieve bbc world service here in Italy on hotbird but since murdoch and his sky pirates took over the show here cannot get zilch.
I've tried moving the dish in all directions but beeb world is just not there. Even the american news channels are now encrypted fox news and cnn.
Could someone tell me how I can find beeb world in FTA better still is it possible to recieve the domestic bbc channels on Astra with a FTA digital sat reciever ?
Thanks in advance..regards
englishguy

Hi there, welcome to TV Forum. The Sky Italia set up shouldn't affect your viewing of BBC World as far as I know. BBC World is available freely on HotBird 6 at 13 degrees East in both analogue and digital - so if you have the appropriate equipment, you should be able to receive it. Alternatively, BBC World is available FTA on Astra 19.2E, as part of the CanalSatellite package - but I should warn you that although the Astra feed is "digital", it seems to be a re-broadcast of the analogue HotBird feed, as the picture quality is quite poor, complete with sparklies.

The only other BBC channel available in Europe is BBC Prime, but you need to subscribe to this in order to view it (it is scrambled/encrypted). There's a thread going about BBC Prime at the moment, so it might be worth having a look in there.

Hello Robert,
thanks for your quick reply well there's success of sorts I found my user manual(it helps) for my strong sat 4155 receiver and changed the symbol rate setting.
Saw and read the other thread regarding bbc prime and low and behold its on my TV now ! so were getting there

That's good news. In case you need them to program in, here are the settings for BBC World on HotBird:

Frequency - 12597
Symbol = 27500
Polar = V
FEC = 3/4
Video PID = 163
Audio PID = 92
PCR PID = 163

Hope that works!