Re: Spanish DVB-T receiver used with FreeView (DTT)

That is analogue and in fact a lot of tvs simply had different software to
configure them for where they were aimed at toward the end, guess this made
more financial sense.

Brian

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Hi,

I live in Spain and will visit the Uk for Xmas and my parents would
like a DVB-T receiver. The Uk ones are about £20 - £30 upwards but
the ones in Spain in Carrfour can be bought from EURO 15.

Spain uses MHP for the services where are Freeview uses poor old
MHEG-5. Spain also uses more channels and VHF unlike the Uk.

I read on this BBC site about FreeView transmitting MHP and MHEG-5
alongside each other:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/brochures/ibc2004/bbc-rd-mheg-mhp.pdf

Will the Spanish Freeview unit work with British DTT and does anyone
know about MHP implementations in Britain?

Many thanks.

PS. It does not matter that the interactive services work or not with
a Sp., receiver in the UK because my parents are unlikely to "press
the red button!".

For the sake of £10 more, buy one at Tesco, not worth the bother.

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Not a good idea to buy a DVB-T in UK for use in Spain.
Many reasons from invalid warranty, to UK being PAL-I
and Spain being PAL-B
The PAL transmission standard is the same in nearly all areas
Being 625/50 line field rate, scan at 15,625, also same colour
subcarrier and processing, but the significant difference being
the designated broadcast frequency carriers used.
The impact in this Spain/UK scenario being that the sound carrier
resides at 5.5Mhz carrier with PAL-I (UK) But at 6Mhz above the
picture carrier with PAL-B (Spain, Netherlands etc)
The result will be that no sound will be received if used in Spain. All
use the 625/50 line/field rate..... scan at 15,625 h-lines/sec and use a
4.433618 color subcarrier frequency & PAL colD variants, designate the
broadcast frequency carriers used, as opposed to any variation of the
video format itself... PAL-I for example, has been allocated a wider
transmitter bandwidth than PAL-B, necessitating that the sound carrier
resides 6Mhz above the picture instead of 5.5 MHz above the picture
carrier. Thus a PAL-I TV (the United Kingdom for exampleor processing



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