Re: HDTV and the World Cup

Peter Hayes wrote:
> I read in one of the Sunday's that the BBC is covering all their World
> Cup matches in HDTV.
>
> How are they transmitting this?


If they are doing this it'll be via satellite (dunno about cable, and it
won't be on Freeview).


> Is there an add-on computer card that'll save having to buy an HDTV
> telly (not that I'd buy one, but if such a board is available it would
> be an interesting experiment).


I've not seen any PC cards that would support this yet, because they'd
need to support DVB-S2 and have an H.264/AVC video decoder in them, and
all current digital satellite PC cards I've seen only support DVB-S and
have an MPEG-2 video decoder.


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