Friday, 12 January 2024

The anomalies from January 9th were reversed by Virgin.
 
Housekeeping - Channel Closure:
ID 2059 E! HD  -  Placeholder - End of Service.
- SDT root flags show that encryption has been removed.
Encryption ended when elementary streams were removed on January 9th.
 
 
Service Removals: 

ID-Ref   Service Name Annotation Days Held TSID SID
475   Absolute Radio Placeholder - End of Service 31 22 2206
485   Planet Rock Placeholder - End of Service 31 22 2207
490   Magic Radio Placeholder - End of Service 31 22 2236
544   Absolute 80s Placeholder - End of Service 31 22 2237
545   Absolute Classic Rock Placeholder - End of Service 31 22 2238
554   Kiss FM Placeholder - End of Service 31 22 2233
1345   New Music On Demand On Demand Portal - Inactive  219 1 151
2255   NBC News Now End of Service - 24 2406
 
- PMTs and Elementary Streams Removed.
- All of the above were removed from the NIT & SDT.
- Radio services were not encrypted, the ability to play back any recordings is not confirmed for this situation.
- As an obsolete slate, with no recordable content, it is uncertain why the SI data for New Music On Demand was retained for so long.
- Recordings of NBC News Now are thought to have been unplayable since the "Placeholder" flag was removed on January 8th.
 
 
New Services:
 
ID 2323 HTC One  -  Internal Networks Only - Internal Transport Stream Only 
- Added to TSID 399 SID 39913.
- Channel 765.
SID 39913 has been duplicated in the NIT, the duplicate has been recorded as an error. 
Virgin doesn't usually correct this type of error.
 
ID 2324 HTC Two  -  Internal Networks Only - Internal Transport Stream Only 
- Added to TSID 399 SID 39914.
- Channel 766.
 
- New Services added to Virgin's Internal Transport Stream 399.
- Both added to just one internal network - NGRHEE Bromley.
 
 
Background Information:
TSID 399 is normally used for services not intended for customers. 
This transport stream is only carried on NGRHEE Knowsley & NGRHEE Bromley.
- Both of these internal networks carry SIDs 39902-39903 Test 2-Test 3 & SIDs 39005-39008 Test 5-Test 8.
- NGRHEE Knowsley also carries SIDs 39909-39912 Test 9-Test 12 - all showing as not running in the SDT Root. 
- SID 39904 - Test 4 was removed a long time ago.
- SIDs 39913-39914 are only carried on NGRHEE Bromley.
 
Unique Identifier Series:
IDs 2318 to 2322 have not yet been allocated, a gap in the series.
- Possibly indicating that further services are at the negotiation stage.  
- Note that gaps in the USID series are not always filled, so it could just remain as a permanent gap.