[mythtv-users] Mixing HD and non-HD Freeview tuners

[John Pilkington]

On 07/08/13 20:48, mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
>
> Quoting John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net>:
>> This is the Freeview HD mux as seen here by a mythtvsetup a month ago:
>>
>> qam_256:770000000:BBC TWO HD:102:12323:9018:17472:16517=16517:dvb
>> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
>> qam_256:770000000:BBC ONE HD:101:12323:9018:17540:16517=16517:dvb
>> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
>> qam_256:770000000:ITV HD:103:12323:9018:17605:16517=16517:dvb
>> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
>> qam_256:770000000:Channel 4 HD:104:12323:9018:17664:16517=16517:dvb
>> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
>> qam_256:770000000:BBC RB 303 HD:303:12323:9018:19648:16517=16517:dvb
>> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
>> qam_256:770000000:The Space:232:12323:9018:20288:16517=16517:dvb
>> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
>>
>> BBC RB is a 'Red Button' interactive service and 'The Space' carries
>> data for an Arts Council internet service.  I think the other four
>> channels (101 to 104) are now permanemtly HD.
>
> Actually BBC RB 303 is a real HD channel. It's what your TV tunes to
> when you press the red button on BBC1. There's no guide data from
> tv_grab_uk_rt but it does have EIT data. It's mostly sport and was very
> good in the olympics.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim.

Yes; and it looks as if its real name is 'BBC RB 303 HD'.  It also 
carried a 'Prom' concert a few days ago.  Usually is seems, at least on 
SD, that the highest bitrate is used for gigs from smoke-filled rooms in 
the 1970s :-)