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Freeview coming to the UK in 2009
It's exciting that 4 channels of terrestrial Freeview HD should arrive in parts of Britain next year. London is on the roadmap for 2009:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/22/london_high_def/
Unfortunately new players will be needed to receive the HD signal as it's encoded differently. Buyers of older equipment will be left out in the HD cold. I don't know whether it would be technically possible for manufacturers to update older equipment with software updates.
The channels will only be in the lower 720p HD resolution (HD comes in two resolutions - 720p and 1080p/1080i): http://www.avforums.com/forums/home-cinema-tech-news/737341-freeview-hd-plan.html
In comparison, standard definition TV is 576p (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/576p) and also narrower.
There is limited capacity for HD channels on Terrestrial TV as the bandwidth available is limited. Satellite (Freesat and Sky) and cable have more bandwidth available and will continue to be able to broadcast more HD channels.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/22/london_high_def/
Unfortunately new players will be needed to receive the HD signal as it's encoded differently. Buyers of older equipment will be left out in the HD cold. I don't know whether it would be technically possible for manufacturers to update older equipment with software updates.
The channels will only be in the lower 720p HD resolution (HD comes in two resolutions - 720p and 1080p/1080i): http://www.avforums.com/forums/home-cinema-tech-news/737341-freeview-hd-plan.html
In comparison, standard definition TV is 576p (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/576p) and also narrower.
There is limited capacity for HD channels on Terrestrial TV as the bandwidth available is limited. Satellite (Freesat and Sky) and cable have more bandwidth available and will continue to be able to broadcast more HD channels.
09:46 PM, 22 Oct 2008 by Michael Bluett Permalink | Comments (0)
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