[mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Dan Seddon
dan.seddon at framestore-cfc.com
Sun Jan 22 17:05:22 UTC 2006
Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
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>>>>That all sounds a bit naff if true..... I thought there had been a lot
>>>>of talk about the BBC broadcasting before the World Cup in HDTV in
>>>>London on terrestial digital?
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>>>Well, it's our government who 'own' the airwaves, so it's likely
>>>they'll sell off the analogue space to the highest bidder IMHO.
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>>Yes - that rings true, hence the rush to stop analgue. I guess how much
>>HDTV we see before then depends on who can squeeze how much in to the
>>space currently available to Digital Terrestial.
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>>>As for UK HD being MPEG4 - I saw an article in Electronics Times
>>>recently which stated it as a fact - a fact which is causing people
>>>concern over how current Freeview receivers will work in future.
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>>Maybe the two issues are tied to each other - if the bandwidth doesn't
>>arrive quickly enough (things never do here) MPEG4 would get more in to
>>the same space. It might cause a bit of grief with all the people who've
>>bought very expensive "HD-ready" sets though....
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>Not likely. The TV sets are HD-ready independent of whether MPEG2 or
>MPEG4-P10 (H.264) is used, as it is the external STB which does the
>decoding. Those sets should have either HDMI or DVI input.
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I was thinking that they had built in digital recievers, maybe they
don't? It would annoy me if I had to buy yet another box having shelled
out - the slick minimalism of my flatscreen might feel a bit compromised....
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