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Animal Planet HD in CYFRA+
- 2009-09-17 08:49:14 / Rafal Tomasiak
- last update: 2009-11-13 10:35:12
- source: CYFRA+
On 16th of September 2009, subscribers of the satellite platform CYFRA+ have gained an access to Animal Planet HD. Until 11th of November channel can be viewed by all subscribers of the platform with has at least one HD option activated. This is the ninth high-definition channel available in CYFRA+, other ones include: CANAL+ Film HD, CANAL+ Sport HD, National Geographic Channel HD, HBO HD, Filmbox HD, MTVNHD, Eurosport HD and Eurosport 2 HD.
CYFRA+ offers Animal Planet HD in the Prestizowy HD+ package with no additional charge or as an additional option for subscribers of the Prestizowy+, Komfortowy+ and Podstawowy+ packages. Animal Planet HD is available on channel 74 in CYFRA+ set-top boxes.
Animal Planet HD is the ninth new channel added to CYFRA+ this year, other tv stations are: TVP Sport, Filmbox Family, Universal Channel, SCI FI, Travel Channel, ID Investigation Discovery, Orange sport info and Eurosport 2 HD. It is also the seventh channel from Discovery family available in CYFRA+, in addition to Discovery Channel, Discovery World, Discovery Science, Discovery Travel & Living, ID Investigation Discovery and Animal Planet.
Technical parameters of Animal Planet HD:
Hot Bird 9 (13E)
tp. 3 (11,258 GHz, pol. H, SR: 27500, FEC: 3/4, DVB-S2/8PSK)
ID: N4
SID: 15206
PID V: 541 (MPEG-4/HD)
PID A: 641 (AC3)
Encoding: Conax CAS7, Seca MediaGuard 4
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