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Old 13-12-2009, 00:39   #1
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Freeview HD launched in London.

The Freeview HD mux launched in london on 3 Dec from Crystal Palace (ch31) joining lancashire's Winter Hill service. Crystal Palace's service is an additional mux, retaining the existing configuration of channels on the existing muxes until switchover. The HD mux is also at a lower power (10kW) to avoid reception problems with Sandy Heath.

Now all we need is the kit to recieve it on !!!

http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051641
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Old 16-02-2010, 22:45   #2
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Re: Freeview HD launched in London.

It's currently available in Granada-land too but still no boxes yet. Other regions to follow:
http://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview/R...le-on-Freeview

However, apparently due out on the 22nd February is the Humax HD-FOX T2:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/46...-fox-t2-review

Quite pricey mind at £149 + VAT:
http://cpc.farnell.com/humax/hd-fox-...2/dp/AV1974110
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Re: Freeview HD launched in London.

I would have thought any DVB-T2 compliant box would pick it up, or are they using some obscure parameters?
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Re: Freeview HD launched in London.

Yer, right. So point me to another DVB-T2 box then!
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Re: Freeview HD launched in London.

At those prices I'm considering moving to Freesat. £250 gets you a Humax freesat PVR.

Freesat has considerably more bandwidth. BBC Red button content on Freeview is currently only one channel, where Freesat has six (I believe). With the winter olympics currently on, it is obvious that one red button channel is not enough. Freesat is currently using 5 channels to show all events.
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Re: Freeview HD launched in London.

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Yer, right. So point me to another DVB-T2 box then!
Er, there isn't one. And TBH the Humax boxes are so far ahead of the competition you'd be a bit silly not to get one.

Actually, tell a white lie, there is this: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/3139...eeview-plus-hd
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And from Farnell I didn;t expect anything else..

It'll be a lot cheaper once the high street gets stock
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And from Farnell I didn;t expect anything else..

It'll be a lot cheaper once the high street gets stock
I checked with Google Shopping first and all the suggestions it came up with were more expensive. I simply put down the cheapest I could find.
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Re: Freeview HD launched in London.

We get our Freeview from the Winter Hill transmitter.
It's annoying that a HD ready TV with built in Freeview cannot receive Freeview HD without an STB, i guessit won't be long before TV's are available with it built in.
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Re: Freeview HD launched in London.

Is it any surprise that this is a complete farce?

Really, did nobody in regulations or authority have the wit to see the march toward HD?
It's Eureka-147 DAB all over again!

Rolling out an SDTV digital system which isn't complete before it needs upgrading again to HD.
Rolling out a digital radio system based on an obsolete and inferior codec.

Digital switchover forced the pace of a sytem that was only half finished, and built on the remains of the business failure of OnDigital/ITV digital, leaving the remains of the "setpal" chipset boxes scattered along the wayside.
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Re: Freeview HD launched in London.

Probably to justify huge investment being made in re-engineering the entire terrestrial network. Just think all that taxpayers money spent by the BBC etc and they've got nobody using it because it's got no HD.

And there's not just the HD mux to think about. While the two remaining PSB mux must continue to broadcast in the existing format under OFCOM rules, there are no such constraints on the remaining commercial mux operators, who may well also opt to use DVB-T2.
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Re: Freeview HD launched in London.

First Freeview HD TV available on pre-order at Comet - for £1100!

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/02...reeview_hd_tv/
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First Freeview HD TV available on pre-order at Comet - for £1100!

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/02...reeview_hd_tv/
Cheaper to get a non Freeview HD telly and buy a HD box for it
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