[mythtv-users] MythTV in the UK

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 March 2010 17:29, Stephen Bridges <widget at stdin.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> DVB-S is pretty disappointing compared to DVB-T though.  There's
>> no BBC red button stuff on freesat, as there's not enough bandwidth as it's
>
> When I last configured my DVB-S backend, there were about 10 BBC
> interactive channels available on Freesat (plus a couple for ITV). I
> used several of the BBC channels during the Vancouver Olympics to
> watch sports not carried or delayed on the regular BBC coverage.
>
> DVB-S has a _lot_ more bandwidth compared to DVB-T. How do you think
> Freesat support so many channels? In addition to the "crap shopping
> channels" Freesat also carries all regional variants of
> BBC1/BBC2/ITV1/Channel 4 etc, which are not available via DVB-T.
>
>> full of crap shopping channels.  Signal to noise is a lot lower in terms of
>> content.  Unfortunately I don't have Freeview reception in Northampton, but my
>> Nova T cards are in a bag ready for the switchover, presumably just in time
>> for T2 to obsolete them.
>
> DVB-T2 will not obsolete DVB-T. The HD mux will use DVB-T2, the others
> will continue to use DVB-T and your Nova T tuners should be fine for
> the SD channels.

HD doesn't NEED dvb-t2. In NZ Freeview carries HD quite well on DVB-T

Of course your local implementation may be relying on features of T2,
which is a shame for you all there.