[mythtv-users] New system w poor quality picture

[Jens.Peder.Terjesen at devoteam.com]

-----Paul Gardiner wrote: -----

>Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Paul Gardiner
>wrote:
>>> Jim Morton wrote:
>>>> nowhere near as clean and clear as direct from antenna to TV.
>This is OTA
>>>> only from an HD digital antenna.
>>> Excuse my ignorance: what's "an HD digital antenna"? Are there TVs
>out
>>> there that will take a direct connection to a satellite dish?
>>
>> who said anything about satellite?
>
>Ok, what about the first part of the question?: What's "an HD digital
>antenna?"  I'm in the UK. All we have that you can pick up with an
>aerial is Freeview which is SD only. For HD it's either satellite or
>cable. I'm just interested to know how things work elsewhere.
>
>Maybe you read my question as sarcasm? It wasn't intended that way.
>
>Paul.

There is no technical problem with HD via DVB-T other than bandwith.

New Zealand uses H.264 coding and have some HD channels on DVB-T I think.
Using H.264 of course means that the HD channels needs less bandwith than
if using mpeg2.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20090611/4730e33b/attachment.htm>