For those of you that missed the announcement:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/06_june/27/h
d.shtml
I'm sure someone down at KW will know chapter and verse on this, but
AFAIK there are no IDTVs currently on the market that will be compatible
with the test transmissions. Most HD IDTVs have only SD DVB decoders,
and the handful that do have HD decoders receive HD using MPEG2
compression over the usual DVB-T transport layer (as used elsewhere in
the world like Australia).
Somewhere else in Europe does use h264 for DVB HD services (France
maybe?) but over standard DVB-T not DVB-T2. Guildford could be a world
first.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Barber
Sent: 27 June 2008 16:08
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] BBC begins DVB-T2 test transmissions in
preparation for HD on Freeview
Anyone had any luck picking this up? I have a HDTV with a
Freeview tuner, but have no idea if this is capable of picking up HD
over the air... is it ATSC? I'm unsure of the specifics.
--Matt
