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ITV HD aka High Definition is available on DVB-S on Freesat. MythTV can receive this programming, but requires some simple modification. I recommend you use my channel plan for the numbers to match.

First, connect to your MySQL DB and then issue the following commands

use mythconverg;
select mplexid from dtv_multiplex where transportid = 2315;

This will return a number. Note the number down. If you get no number returned, you need to run mythtv-setup and scan for the ITV HD transponder

• Input Frequency = 11428000
• Polarity = Horizontal / H
• Symrate = 27500000
• FEC = Auto
• Inversion = Auto

Now, in the SQL below, replace MPLEXID with the number you noted from the ’select mplexid’ statement, then input it to your MySQL client (all on one line):

insert into channel values (119,119,NULL,1,'ITV HD','ITV HD','',NULL,'','',0,32768,32768,32768,32768,'Default',1,'',1,MPLEXID,10510,0,0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','','-1');

Exit MySQL (standard exit is the ‘\q’ command – without quote marks) and then restart the MythTV backend

sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart

Now you should find ITV HiDef on channel 119, both in the Watch Live TV section and the Program Guide.

UPDATE
Its been reported that some people get no result returned when doing the ’select from dtv_multiplex where mplexid = 2315′ (for example, see Jons tech blog at http://jonwsmith.com/techblog/?p=41). This happened for me because when I performed my first setup after installing mythtv I told the setup program to do the ‘full scan – tuned’ to a frequency different to the ITV HD transponder. Im not sure if this is a bug in mythtv or a problem with the transponder information coming down from the satelites themselves, but the solutions are either to do the full scan – tuned to use frequency 11428000 when setting up mythtv, or if you are already set up and dont want to go back to this step, you can do what Jon did over in his blog and add the transponder manually (see the link). If you choose the second method no other channels from the ITV HD transponder will automatically appear in Mythtv, but if you use the first method they will. Im going to bet that in most cases you dont want to go through channel set up all over again, so Jons method is likely going to be ideal for you

Hope this helps!