Storm - General Discussion & Chat

JuFan wrote:An Indian channel has bought the channel slot and won't continue Storm's adult programme.

Fucking marvellous, so what's the new channel going to be called. Burka Babes or something.......



Go on............Show us your face love.....

An Indian channel has bought the channel slot and won't continue Storm's adult programme.

JuFan wrote:Storm will close down on the 31st October.

That is grim news, yet another channel bites the dust. Who's next I wonder In saying that what has Storm really offered in recent times, not much in my opinion, its a shame however that it couldn't continue perhaps under a new owner. Despite how bad the channels have now become I would never wish for the closure of any of them as that closes all the doors as to a future revival

JuFan wrote:Storm will close down on the 31st October.

This is a sudden news. I wish Georgie Darby and also Shanti Dynamite can have a new job.
What is the reason for this?

Storm will close down on the 31st October.

How long is it before this channel notices that it's ratio for the picture on Satellite is completely wrong? It's been wrong for around 2 months now.

They've either got camera on wide-screen as well as the display aspect ratio, or something else is messing with video image. Note that the overlay OSGs are fine, so it suggests it's a setting on the video camera itself.

Basically picture is just plain wrong. When watching on satellite everyone looks thin and tall. If you correct it via video player settings, you loose some of picture.

What I can't understand is how come they've not noticed? Or why someone hasn't mentioned it to the babes, and they in turn passed the message onto the producer...

storm had a live stream till the end of last week on sexysat 7 on my vlc playlist.
it just showed up randomly about 2 weeks ago went off after a day, then came back and lasted about a week. its now gone again.
so yeah they do have a livestream for the web they just decided not to broadcast it.
it wasnt even live on there site which was a schoolboy error on there part.

I wonder if this channel will be the first to bring back proper 2-4-1s? It would be refreshing to see!

Thought I'd add that since I got a spare Sky+ HD box, I've simply modded it so that the internal hard drive cables run through the back panel of the box straight into my hard drive enclosure (Which has the original Sky+ HD hard drive inside). Means I can simply plug out the cables attached to the Sky+ HD box and plug my enclosure into one of my front panel USB slots when I feel the need to transfer recordings. Using ExPVR and the streams come out perfectly, took roughly 24 minutes to transfer 59 hours worth of recorded content to my PC.

pdc200 wrote:How exactly do you record Storm streams? Recently got a Sky+HD box and was wondering how?

StormbabesTV is only available via Freesat (DVB-S), there's no webstream or Storm on Freeview (DVB-T). Every Freesat or general satellite receiver is able to receive StormbabesTV without problems. It doesn't even have to be an HD-Receiver (DVB-S2). Frequency is 11597V, SR22000, FEC5/6. On your Skybox Storm should be listed as channel 939. The box will keep track on transponder and freqency-changes and Storm will always be available for you as channel 939. That's the good news! Personally I'm not a fan of the skyboxes because they are restricted, crippled and the software is imho just...

If you just wanna record Storm, then it's very easy. Sky's finest hardware is able to do that without further ado. Just press the record-button and the selected channel will be recorded and of course - scheduled timer recordings are also possible. That's why the build-in harddisk is there for. It's quite an easy process.

If you wanna transfer your recordings to your PC, then you're in a trouble with a Skybox because it's not possible (at least no with the newest generations of Sky's crappy boxes:

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If you wanna have the opportunity to transfer your recordings to a pc, then you need simply better hardware.

Something like that for example:

[hidden link - please register] (a very fine satellite-receiver)
[hidden link - please register] or for your PC:
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Such hardware will allow you to record the channel and transfer the recording to the PC. Both satellite-receivers can do that even via network and/or FTP. The recordings are TS-streams, means it's basically MPEG2, so it's very simple to edit. After that you can store them on your harddisk, burn a DVD or Blu ray or whatever you have in mind. If you wanna encode it to MPEG4, want a much better quality or whatever things get a little bit difficult because Storm uses ultralow bitrates (makes broadcasting via satellite cheaper for them), thus the quality is really horrible. Very blurry and extremely blocky. The quality of my videos is only achieved because of very heavy filtering and very high quality-settings for the encoding-process. Forget x264, use x265, otherwise the bitrates of your encodings will go through the roof. Some know how and an up to date PC with sufficient processing power is absolutely essential (x265 is very heavy on the CPU), otherwise it will take ages to filter and encode...

Hope that's helpfull for the start, if you have any further questions - just ask!

Yes, the babechannels are different today, the shows have changed over the years and the business has changed. We can't turn back time, it is as it is today. I don't see things in such an almost 100% negative way as you do, in my opinion the babechannels still have to offer content and shows worth watching. Must be the very first time that we don't share the same opinion I guess... ;-)

The "paint drying channel" sounds tempting... I'll think about it, but I'm quite sure the beautiful young women will win...

Well with regards to the babe channels throughout Europe sadly they are all dying a slow and painful death. ETV just isn't erotic anymore and as far as Babestation and co are concerned its just the same old shit, different night. As I said the other day I simply cannot be arsed to muster up the energy to post any screencaps or videos anymore. I have a few days off now so hopefully if I get time I should upload some shows from the webshows.

With regards to those outwith the UK not being able to access our full list of supposed erotic channels trust me on this one you are missing fuck all. Don't even bother trying to shift your dish or investing in a bigger one, only bother if its for the SKY movies or excellent sports channels you're after because in terms of erotica here in the UK forget it, you'd sooner switch over to the paint drying channel than try to sit through any of our junk

Yeah the good old days they were the best..........

Lastly fuck ofcom and all oppressive censors that have well and truly fucked up our once glorious babe channels

Well, in an ideal world, but sadly the situation & circumstances are complicated...

When Eurobird 1/Eutelsat 28A was taken out of service the channels moved to transponders on Astra 2E/F/G. A bunch of channels I really liked ended up on UK-spotbeams. Even CBS Action, True Entertainment and lots more and these channels have the appropriate licenses to broadcast their program all over Europe. Freesat is mainly run by two companies - BBC and ITV and they won't be worried about channels being on the spotbeams, because it's for UK-viewers and they don't care much about the rest of Europe. Channels that have only UK-licenses have to options:

1. using an UK-spotbeam
2. encrypt the channels

The second is used by SKY, the first has advantages for channels like the BBC and of course their viewers - it saves them both money.

There are not many babechannels left today, Astra 1 has to offer Babestation 24 and ETV and that's it. Some years ago there were dozens of interesting channels on Hotbird, today there's ETV and not much else I think. The "golden years" of the babechannels are definitely over, most of them even struggle to stay in business and Ofcom doesn't make it easier for the UK-babechannels...

Yes, many, many years ago there were only one satellite-position for the UK and Europe. It all started with Astra 1A and 12 german and 4 english channels:

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Good old times...

Reading your posts there Dackel it still baffles me to this day why we can't just all share the same satellite. Last year we had the SKY Merger which was rebranded as SKY Europe but it was only a merger of the companies and not the afore mentioned satellites.

The UK as we all know has the bulk of the Babe Channels with just a select few on the Astra 1 satellite. Without going into the entire history of SKY but before 1998 we all shared the same satellites, the digital switchover put an end to that as it was claimed at the time that with the launch of the Astra 2 Satellites that more channels would therefore be able to be carried, If you ask me it probably had more to do with the television regulators at the time having more control as quite a lot of soft porn FTA German Channels were available prior to digital switchover,

Who knows with the launch of 4k satellite early next year on SKY then a switch back to Astra 1 could be a possibility as they are currently the only satellites able to broadcast this new level of resolution. Not only that but I'd imagine it would make for good business if the entire channel availability was the same throughout Europe. Different cards for different countries could be a viable solution I think because if its all the same I'd prefer not to have to sift through foreign commentaries when I'm watching the footy as to say

Since the informations about the TV-channels are quite outdated now [hidden link - please register]
here are some up to date-infos about the TV-versions of the channels:


Studio 66:

Channel: Studio 66 TV 1
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E
Parameters: 11224H, 27500, 2 /3
Bitrate: avg. 1900 Kbps
Resolution: 544x576; 16:9

Channel: Studio 66 TV 2
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E
Parameters: 11597V, 22000, 5/6
Bitrate: avg. 1600 Kbps
Resolution: 544x576; 16:9

Channel: GoldenGirls TV
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E
Parameters: 11597V, 22000, 5/6
Bitrate: avg. 1600 Kbps
Resolution: 544x576; 16:9


Babestation:

Channel: Babestation
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E (UK only)
Parameters: 11344V, 27500, 2/3
Bitrate: avg. 1900 Kbps
Resolution: 544x576; 16:9

Channel: Babestation Xtra
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E (UK only)
Parameters: 11344V, 27500, 2/3
Bitrate: avg. 1900 Kbps
Resolution: 544x576; 16:9

Channel: Babestation Daytime Xtra
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E
Parameters: 11224H, 27500, 2/3
Bitrate: avg. 1300 Kbps
Resolution: 544x576; 16:9

Channel: Babes from TV
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E
Parameters: 11671H, 22000, 5/6
Bitrate: avg. 1300 Kbps
Resolution: 544x576; 16:9


Storm:

Channel: Storm Babes TV
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E
Parameters: 11597V, 22000, 5/6
Bitrate: avg. 1400 Kbps
Resolution: 544x576; 16:9


Xpanded TV/PlayboyTV-chat:

Channel: Xpanded TV
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E
Parameters: 11686V, 22000, 5/6
Bitrate: avg. 1900 Kbps
Resolution: 720x576; 16:9

Channel: PlayboyTV Chat
Satellite: Astra 2E/F/G, 28,2° E (UK only)
Parameters: 11686V, 27500, 2/3
Bitrate: avg. 2100 Kbps
Resolution: 720x576; 16:9


No idea what's the deal with the 11597V-transponder, because it's outside of the frequency range (11200-11450Mhz) Eutelsat leased from Astra. Either both companies have agreed to exchange 11386V (which is now an unused HD-transponder) with the 11597V Eurobeam-transponder or Eutelsat has even lost more of it's customers on 28.2E...

Meanwhile the highband is almost completely unused:

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Makes sense! Astra was going through the courts to claim ownership over that band and now they don't even use it, but of course they have to take it away from Eutelsat incl. the 28.5-position in the orbit