NHK World HD to launch on Freesat in May

[daveh75]

As per title NHK World HD is to launch on Freesat in may according to Freesats Twitter feed...

http://www.freesat.co.uk/news-and-views/twitter

http://twitter.com/freesat_tv

 

[laserman16]

Daveh75, I assume its just a rumour at the moment, or is it a bit more concrete than that.

 

[daveh75]

That is Freesat™ twitter feed and they make official anouncements on there all the time, so have no reason to doubt the info...

 

[laserman16]

Ok, thanks.

 

[daveh75]

NHK World HD has now began testing, so can be manually tuned/viewed in non Freesat mode on Freesat boxes/IDTVs and via add/other channels on Sky boxes (video only on Sky boxes atm) on the following parameters,

FREQ: 11.224
Pol: Vertical
Symbol Rate: 27500
FEC: 2/3
Label: 53147

 

[daveh75]

According to Broadband TV News, NHK World HD is launching on Freesat and Sky today. It isn't on Skys EPG yet, can anyone confirm if its on Freesat's yet? (not able to check,atm)

EDIT - Freesat have just announced NHK World HDs launch on their twitter page

http://twitter.com/#!/freesat_TV/status/67535756691914752

 

[John Duncan]

Brilliant. What is it?

 

[The_Lhc]

Japanese news channel as far as I can tell.

 

[daveh75]

"NHK World HD is a 24/7 service of news, music, art and cooking from Japan"

 

[geoffreyc]

Just been prompted to do retune can confirm NHK World HD now on freesat epg!