Re: Ofcom says 4 national HD channels on DTT

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Ofcom has given a presentation for analysts that they've streamed on
t'net, and about 25 minutes of it (starting at about 40-45 minutes
into the presentation) is about Digital Dividend Review and the DTT
spectrum and so forth, and they said that by using DVB-T2,
statistical multiplexing (they called that a new technology, not
sure why), "mode change" (i.e. the use of 8K) and MPEG-4 video they
think that they'll be able to fit 4 HD channels onto existing DTT
multiplexes and they'll be "universally available" (I think they
used those words).

Yer, and that means all the current STBs will be obsolete, all the
current DTT tuners will be obsolete


No, standard-definition MPEG-2 TV channels will continue broadcasting, so
how will current STBs become obsolete?


and there will be no room for all
the existing DTT channles.


No, all existing DTT channels will be able to continue broadcasting.


Talk about the BBC and ITV miseladeing
their viewers.


No they haven't.


The broadcasting regulator itself has completely
mislead the entire pubic from the start.


No it hasn't.


--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info


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