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<p><tt>-----Paul Gardiner wrote: -----<br>
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<tt>>Nick Rout wrote:<br>
</tt><tt>>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Paul Gardiner<br>
</tt><tt>>wrote:<br>
</tt><tt>>>> Jim Morton wrote:<br>
</tt><tt>>>>> nowhere near as clean and clear as direct from antenna to TV.<br>
</tt><tt>>This is OTA<br>
</tt><tt>>>>> only from an HD digital antenna.<br>
</tt><tt>>>> Excuse my ignorance: what's "an HD digital antenna"? Are there TVs<br>
</tt><tt>>out<br>
</tt><tt>>>> there that will take a direct connection to a satellite dish?<br>
</tt><tt>>><br>
</tt><tt>>> who said anything about satellite?<br>
</tt><tt>><br>
</tt><tt>>Ok, what about the first part of the question?: What's "an HD digital<br>
</tt><tt>>antenna?" I'm in the UK. All we have that you can pick up with an<br>
</tt><tt>>aerial is Freeview which is SD only. For HD it's either satellite or<br>
</tt><tt>>cable. I'm just interested to know how things work elsewhere.<br>
</tt><tt>><br>
</tt><tt>>Maybe you read my question as sarcasm? It wasn't intended that way.<br>
</tt><tt>><br>
</tt><tt>>Paul.<br>
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<tt>There is no technical problem with HD via DVB-T other than bandwith.<br>
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<tt>New Zealand uses H.264 coding and have some HD channels on DVB-T I think.<br>
</tt><tt>Using H.264 of course means that the HD channels needs less bandwith than if using mpeg2.</tt></body></html>