[mythtv-users] Digital switchover channel confusion

[Another Sillyname]

On 30/03/2011, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> On 30/03/11 15:21, Justin Hornsby wrote:
>> Also please be aware that the all-new shiny digital transmissions will
>> change from QAM16 or QAM64 at 2k  to QAM64 at 8k - and in areas
>> blessed with the full complement of multiplexes will have only FIVE
>> standard def. muxes and one (DVB-T2) HD mux rather than the current
>> maximum of six muxes.
>>
> Please be aware that I recently (~14 days) read that after the final 2012
> switchover we will all have *eight* muxes available, not six. I don't know
> what
> the mix of DVB-T/DVB-T2 is planned to be at that point.
>
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> Mike Perkins
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I read on a confidential discussion document that the intent at DSO
was a for initially two Muxs to be DVB-T2 and the third to be a
'floater' for transferring the majority of channels to DVB-T2 by 2018,
however I want to be clear this was a discussion doc and not policy or
confirmed.