For what it's worth, Ireland currently has a trial of h264 HD (and SD) over DTT, but it's DVB-T as well. And there are some standard MPEG2 services as well. Online gossip indicates that h264 is going to be used for everything there, once the DTT service starts properly - which is going to annoy a lot of people, particularly in the border areas, who've already bought UK Freeview equipment.. Aaron
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gareth Davis Sent: 27 June 2008 17:08 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC begins DVB-T2 test transmissions in preparation for HD on Freeview 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. -- Gareth Davis | Production Systems Specialist World Service Future Media, Digital Delivery Team - Part of BBC Global News Division * http://www.bbcworldservice.com/ <http://www.bbcworldservice.com/> * 702NE Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B 4PH * 02 71285 (internal) * +44 (0)20 7557 1285 (external) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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