Freeview and HDTV - will it ever happen?

nsj wrote:
Mat Overton wrote:
Government realises it can't sell off analogue bandwidth as
no-one wants it

Ha ha ha ha.

wipes tear from eye

200MHz of spectrum at 650-850MHz? Won't be able to sell it off?


650 - 850 MHz? This is from an Ofcom document:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/im...annels_q80.jpg

14 x 8 MHz = 112 MHz

Still be able to sell it for a lot of dosh though.


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In article , nsj
writes
Mat Overton wrote:
Government realises it can't sell off analogue bandwidth as
no-one wants it

Ha ha ha ha.

wipes tear from eye

200MHz of spectrum at 650-850MHz? Won't be able to sell it off?

Ha ha ha. Ha.

Who.. might be interested?....
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Tony Sayer

tony sayer wrote:
In article , nsj
writes

200MHz of spectrum at 650-850MHz? Won't be able to sell it off?

Ha ha ha. Ha.

Who.. might be interested?....

Content providers? Telecomms operators? Business users? Broadcasters?
Utilities?

DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
650 - 850 MHz? This is from an Ofcom document:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/im...annels_q80.jpg

14 x 8 MHz = 112 MHz

Still be able to sell it for a lot of dosh though.

I thought it was more; even so, it will be a very lucrative bit of e/m real
estate.

"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , nsj
writes
Mat Overton wrote:
Government realises it can't sell off analogue bandwidth as
no-one wants it

Ha ha ha ha.

wipes tear from eye

200MHz of spectrum at 650-850MHz? Won't be able to sell it off?

Ha ha ha. Ha.

Who.. might be interested?....


Mobile phone companies for DVB-H are very interested.


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http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/fr..._receivers.htm
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/da...tal_radios.htm
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/mp...rs_1GB-5GB.htm
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/mp...e_capacity.htm

In article , nsj
writes
tony sayer wrote:
In article , nsj
writes

200MHz of spectrum at 650-850MHz? Won't be able to sell it off?

Ha ha ha. Ha.

Who.. might be interested?....

Content providers? Telecomms operators?

What for not mobile use they have a much spectrum as they need or even
want and no ones going to make equipment for the UK market alone..

Business users?

Plenty of space already available. Declining market anyway Dolphin
didn't do that well did it?...

Broadcasters?

Who's paying?, Subscription TV isn't that much of a market because
people don't like to pay. The advert cake is very thin already..

Utilities?

All gone to dog 'n bones...

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Tony Sayer

Hi Steve!

There's still money to be made - if one slot out of eight in a national
DTT mux can sell for several million pounds (ITV3 IIRC), there would be
a couple of hundred million to be made from a sell off, even to TV
companies.


Erm, but the more supply of something that there is, the lower the price for
each individual bit.



Of course you're right that the government were hoping (dreaming!) of
making much more than that, but I guess they'll take what they can get.

Supply is sometimes said to create its own demand, so the mobile telephone
companies may think up of new uses for spare airwaves.


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John Porcella

I think the best way to do things is to avoid being one of the first
(and avoid like the plague actually being first, e.g. DAB) and to avoid
being one of the last.

If everybody had that view i.e. avoiding being amongst the first, nothing
would ever happen!


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John Porcella

"Paul Murray" wrote in message
.. .
In article , Andy Dee wrote:
The system uses a low data rate overnight, or during the day to slowly
send a HD program of film to a set top box equipped with a hard disk
recorder.
When received, the prog is played out at HD.

In that case it is only useful if a small percentage of the broadcasting
is
HD, with the rest as SD?

HD = High Definition

What does SD stand for?


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MESSAGE ENDS.
John Porcella

John Porcella wrote:
"Paul Murray" wrote in message
.. .
In article , Andy Dee wrote:
The system uses a low data rate overnight, or during the day to
slowly send a HD program of film to a set top box equipped with a
hard disk recorder.
When received, the prog is played out at HD.

In that case it is only useful if a small percentage of the
broadcasting is HD, with the rest as SD?

HD = High Definition

What does SD stand for?

Would you believe, Standard Definition?
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Adrian