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Ofcom u-turn on digital dividend
Consequences for DTT and the music and concert industry ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7870459.stm Personally, while I concede the need for European-wide standards, my overriding concern is that the money grubbing b*st*rds stop flogging off TV bandwidth to other purposes and instead use it to give us better quality DTT with no or at least as little as possible compression! |
Ofcom u-turn on digital dividend
On 5 Feb, 13:05, Java Jive wrote:
Consequences for DTT and the music and concert industry ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7870459.stm Personally, while I concede the need for European-wide standards, my overriding concern is that the money grubbing b*st*rds stop flogging off TV bandwidth to other purposes and instead use it to give us better quality DTT with no or at least as little as possible compression! Well the good news is the DTT will be reallocated away from 800 MHz to some other frequency...so no harm done! John |
Ofcom u-turn on digital dividend
"Java Jive" wrote in message
Consequences for DTT and the music and concert industry ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7870459.stm Personally, while I concede the need for European-wide standards, my overriding concern is that the money grubbing b*st*rds stop flogging off TV bandwidth to other purposes and instead use it to give us better quality DTT with no or at least as little as possible compression! No compression is obviously never going to happen - 270 Mbps per TV channel is abotu 135 times higher than the bit rate used by some TV channels today! IMO, it is the right *long-term* decision to use the TV bandwidth for mobile broadband. Mobile broadband has grown at a phenomenal rate over the last year or two, and 800 MHz is about the best frequency band to use for mobile broadband - terrestrial TV doesn't need to use frequencies that are perfect for mobile applications. BT should enable multicast on its 21CN network, and they're going to put Ethernet sockets on new Freeview and Freesat set-top boxes to allow people to watch iPlayer streams on their TV sets. If they included code to receive multicast at the same time we could get far better quailty via the Internet than we could ever hope for via DTT. -- Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting: http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/da...ion_of_dab.htm |
Ofcom u-turn on digital dividend
Java Jive wrote:
Consequences for DTT and the music and concert industry ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7870459.stm Personally, while I concede the need for European-wide standards, my overriding concern is that the money grubbing b*st*rds stop flogging off TV bandwidth to other purposes and instead use it to give us better quality DTT with no or at least as little as possible compression! The proposal is basically a channel-shuffling one. Post-DSO, DTT would use channels 39 and 40 instead of 61 and 62. Arqiva have come up with a frequency plan that shunts assignments around so that all six multiplexes from a particular site will be in same aerial groups as the existing DSO plan. Because this wheeze has come so late in the day, many of the channel moves will have to take place after DSO. (Ofcom's analysis appears to have overlooked the implication of this for communal aerial systems with channel filters.) PMSE would get channel 38 instead of 69. http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/800mhz/ -- Richard Lamont http://www.lamont.me.uk/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0xBD89BE41 Fingerprint: CE78 C285 1F97 0BDA 886D BA78 26D8 6C34 BD89 BE41 |
Ofcom u-turn on digital dividend
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:22:12 +0000, Richard Lamont wrote:
Post-DSO, DTT would use channels 39 and 40 instead of 61 and 62. So will Winter Hill viewers require a new antenna in November 2009, or will their group C/D antenna be adequate for PSB-1 multiplex way down on channel 39 or 40? |
Ofcom u-turn on digital dividend
J G Miller wrote:
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:22:12 +0000, Richard Lamont wrote: Post-DSO, DTT would use channels 39 and 40 instead of 61 and 62. So will Winter Hill viewers require a new antenna in November 2009, or will their group C/D antenna be adequate for PSB-1 multiplex way down on channel 39 or 40? It doesn't work like that. The plan avoids moving channels that far. Typically, channels 61 and 62 will move down to ch 50-ish to keep them in group, and some planned assignments at around ch 50 will move down to 39/40 (i.e. within group B) to make room for them. -- Richard Lamont http://www.lamont.me.uk/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0xBD89BE41 Fingerprint: CE78 C285 1F97 0BDA 886D BA78 26D8 6C34 BD89 BE41 |
Ofcom u-turn on digital dividend
"Richard Lamont" wrote in message ... Java Jive wrote: Because this wheeze has come so late in the day, many of the channel moves will have to take place after DSO. (Ofcom's analysis appears to have overlooked the implication of this for communal aerial systems with channel filters.) They won't have overlooked it. They will have said, "The cost will be borne by landlords and residents, so it doesn't matter to us." Bill |
Ofcom u-turn on digital dividend
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:05:24 +0000, Java Jive wrote:
Consequences for DTT and the music and concert industry ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7870459.stm Personally, while I concede the need for European-wide standards, my overriding concern is that the money grubbing b*st*rds stop flogging off TV bandwidth to other purposes and instead use it to give us better quality DTT with no or at least as little as possible compression! Forgive my ignorance. Am I right in assuming that has a positive affect on the continued use of radio mics or in-ear monitoring systems? Cheers, Steve W |
Ofcom u-turn on digital dividend
Richard Lamont wrote:
Java Jive wrote: Consequences for DTT and the music and concert industry ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7870459.stm Personally, while I concede the need for European-wide standards, my overriding concern is that the money grubbing b*st*rds stop flogging off TV bandwidth to other purposes and instead use it to give us better quality DTT with no or at least as little as possible compression! The proposal is basically a channel-shuffling one. Post-DSO, DTT would use channels 39 and 40 instead of 61 and 62. Arqiva have come up with a frequency plan that shunts assignments around so that all six multiplexes from a particular site will be in same aerial groups as the existing DSO plan. Because this wheeze has come so late in the day, many of the channel moves will have to take place after DSO. (Ofcom's analysis appears to have overlooked the implication of this for communal aerial systems with channel filters.) PMSE would get channel 38 instead of 69. http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/800mhz/ Yes, for those of us that have grouped aerials it looks we might need to upgrade post DSO. Thanks Ofcom ... not. Clem |
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