[mythtv-users] Thinking of moving on from MythTV :-( Any suggestions? (for the UK)

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Tue Jan 3 14:46:19 UTC 2017


On 03/01/17 13:53, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Now some of the channels have been split off into two new multiplexes.. 32* and 34. There is NO
>> WAY a grouped aerial can deal with that!
>>
>> * These are DVB-T2 muxes, 32 contains BBC4 and BBC News among others.
>
> Ah yes, they've done that with Winter Hill as well (com7 & com8 muxes) now I look - but as I
> don't have a T2 tuner or frontends that will handle HD I've not been that bothered. BTW, it's
> BBC4 HD and BBC News HD - the SD channels are still on PSB1 mux. Guess it's got to be a wideband
> in future and accept a much poorer signal - at least until they shift everything down into group
> A channels. Either that or two aerials !
>
Oops. I'm usually more precise than that, but I automatically assume that if the mux is T2 then all
the channels are going to be HD.

The situation might get worse in future - I understand that some of the spectrum is going to be 
stolen for 4G phones. I haven't delved any deeper, I have enough going on here as it is.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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