Ubc Satellite Service

[astral]

Once again there is no signal from the UBC satellite service.

The signal has been off since 7am 13th Sept at the least,

possibly earlier.

They cannot link to the satellite due to technical difficulties, is the official message.

A recording apologises for the poor quality of pictures, which shows how much they really understand their business.

UBC is a digital service and as such you either have a good picture, or you have nothing. There is no such thing as "Poor picture quality"!!

[Ajarn]

Once again there is no signal from the UBC satellite service.

The signal has been off since 7am 13th Sept at the least,

possibly earlier.

They cannot link to the satellite due to technical difficulties, is the official message.

A recording apologises for the poor quality of pictures, which shows how much they really understand their business. 

UBC is a digital service and as such you either have a good picture, or you have nothing.  There is no such thing as "Poor picture quality"!!

It went off at precisely at midnite, and it is throughout the country. UBC said to 'wait a few minutes', when I called them this am...

As for digital image quality, it's not so black and white as you might think, and it's quite possible to have poor image quality in a digital image. If you've ever made a .jpg image in a graphics program, for example, you can compress and filter the image to be of varying visual quality, and it's still a digital image.

Much of the programming on AXN is heavily compressed, and you can see the images start to 'pixelate' especially in action scenes with lots of camera movement...

[Ijustwannateach]

^yeah, I was watching when it went off. Kept it on a couple of hours waiting for it to come back, assumed it was weather.

I've also noticed the frequently spotty picture quality. Ah, for the good ol' days of videotape and cable analog...

"Steven"

[MadFrankie]

Once again there is no signal from the UBC satellite service.

The signal has been off since 7am 13th Sept at the least,

possibly earlier.

They cannot link to the satellite due to technical difficulties, is the official message.

A recording apologises for the poor quality of pictures, which shows how much they really understand their business.

UBC is a digital service and as such you either have a good picture, or you have nothing. There is no such thing as "Poor picture quality"!!

it went off @ about 1am last night

[DaiMai]

Normal service resumed between 12 and 1 pm.

So 12 hours off the air.

Well done UBC