Receiving HEVC Channels on Free Satellite Television

Receiving HEVC Channels on Free Satellite TV. In this video I will test all the free satellite television receivers I own and see how well they can decode the HEVC channels on satellite 116.8 West KU Band. This is the only transponder (with 14 channels) on free satellite TV in North America to use HEVC . 116.8 West KU Band 11940 V 30000 FEC 2/3 HEVC Buy a GTmedia V9 HEVC FTA satellite receiver here (please note the following links are affiliate links and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases) Satellite 117 (116.8) West on Lyngsat: HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) is also known as . It’s a more advanced form of video coding that allows higher compression of video signals without sacrificing video quality. Its predecessor is MPEG-4 (), which is still the most widely-used compression format on Free Satellite TV. HEVC is more commonly used for pay services, b