ats:
Oh dear...
"Britain's first trial of high definition television via roof top aerials was declared a success yesterday by the four major terrestrial broadcasters."
Which is all well and good, but the title makes it sound like you need a new aerial -- which is definitely not the case!
The terrestrial HDTV trials have been in the regular UHF TV band using DVB-T, and thus can be received (if not decoded) with existing equipment.
David:
Hmm, well, it won't be until 2012 that the bandwidth will be available for them
I would like to see some HD, the picture is rather on the nice side.
ats:
It's worth noting that if they were to require new aerials, there would be a fairly significant chunk of bandwidth available in VHF Band I -- and they could set up a single-frequency network there which'd avoid a lot of the mess we get with UHF TV at the moment.
But it's unlikely the government would allow it...
David:
Allow the use of VHF? Or allow them to demand everyone invest in new arials?
ats:
The former, since it's presumably going to be much more profitable to sell it off for other uses.
ats: Oh dear...
"Britain's first trial of high definition television via roof top aerials was declared a success yesterday by the four major terrestrial broadcasters."
Which is all well and good, but the title makes it sound like you need a new aerial -- which is definitely not the case!
The terrestrial HDTV trials have been in the regular UHF TV band using DVB-T, and thus can be received (if not decoded) with existing equipment.
David: Hmm, well, it won't be until 2012 that the bandwidth will be available for them
I would like to see some HD, the picture is rather on the nice side.
ats: It's worth noting that if they were to require new aerials, there would be a fairly significant chunk of bandwidth available in VHF Band I -- and they could set up a single-frequency network there which'd avoid a lot of the mess we get with UHF TV at the moment.
But it's unlikely the government would allow it...
David: Allow the use of VHF? Or allow them to demand everyone invest in new arials?
ats: The former, since it's presumably going to be much more profitable to sell it off for other uses.
David: Ahhh