Want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD?
http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107052120
Want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD?
Details of the new Freeview HD transmitters to come on air next year
Want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD?
Details of the new Freeview HD transmitters to come on air next year
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They are the nominal ERP figures from Ofcom's own documents. Well below the maximum figures but there should be some room for improvement when the service starts.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/600mhz-award/statement/600_MHz_Statement.pdf
Yes I would expect so!
Have a look at the link MeMeMeI posted.
Also see the Ofcom document from Page 34
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/600mhz-award/statement/600_MHz_Statement.pdf
Yes, the full freeview service is from 80 transmitter sites. This service will only be from 30 of those sites and at reduced power levels.
No money -
This is a reuse of old pre-DSO transmitter hardware - must be written off before the end of 2018.
Do understand - this is a message from the broadcasters and Ofcom to the backward looking (part of the) public about phasing out DVB-T beginning in 2014.
If DVB-T is not phased out - rather soon - DTT will not survive much longer than this decade. DTT must adapt to the newer technologies to stay competetive.
In Germany their three COM muxes are not available at several/many main TX sites and one COM mux (RTL) is being closed.
Lars
It's always been known for sure, Freeview Lite viewers are stuffed yet again
That's why Freesat exists.
Some main transmitters will carry all the new channels but at low power, so not everyone currently using one of those masts is guaranteed them. I guess a good number of people would need bigger aerials, maybe wider group top.
A lot of main transmitters won't even carry the extra channels.
And relay masts certainly won't. For what these carry compared with those that will carry everything you may as well switch them off. Nobody will put up with such a limited line up.
Freeview is the one digital tv platform that the goverment has control over and imo they keep changing things to try and get people to spend more money on new tv's, stb etc.
With this latest plan like pre-dso it will just add lots of confusion. Can people get all the channels or not, a tricky one to answer, too many variables. It will push more people into freesat, cable, and sky, like pre-dso days, full of disapointed and confused people.
Freeview, by its very nature, is a platform limited by its available bandwidth - even more now with ongoing sell off of the higher spectrum to 4G providers. It will always be a basic fall back those of who rely initially on the other available platforms for their TV.
Who knows what future technology will be developed to make use of what's left of that bandwidth. Connected TV's may prove increasingly popular in providing a combined DTT/Internet based system for consumers.
Roughly just over Half the first TV are on DSAT platform or cable
and there are a few Multiroom second tv etc .. (but these tend t be in house with more than 3TV)
so there are roughly 12 M TV not on DTT and 60M TV on DTT.....
Our viewing will change and connected TV is a very good way of giving people access to more content on demand
- but for the mass audience Through the air (or similar unidirectional RF system) work very very cost effctivily and have a simple business model!
The use of low power and old equipment is a matter of (a lack of) money. Most or all 30 sites will have a license to transmit at the same much higher power levels used by the current PSB/COM muxes.
"Money makes the world go around...."/Cabaret
Lars
Doing nothing means everyone suffers, instead of just some people. No one will get the extra HD channels which will probably force more people away from Freeview than the confusion will. Plus some people might be attracted to Freeview once it has 15 HD channels.
So this is better than nothing. And if you can't get Freeview Max and you want it, you can always get Freesat instead. So I see this as a good thing for Freeview. Although yes, in an ideal world Freeview Max would be on all transmitters.
And as someone pointed out, everyone even on Freeview Lite will get one extra HD channel (not sure how reliable the infomation is that it's BBC3).
DVB-T/MPEG-2 equipment should not be allowed to carry the 'Digital Tick' anymore - IMHO. If DVB-T is less expensive in a shop, it has little to do with production cost and everything to do with (to) smart marketing.
If you will not pay my price - I can at least deliver you an obsolete product.
If consumers want a long lifetime for their new TV set - they shouid not just look at the available signals today. DVB-T2 is no longer just about HD - e.g. the NImux broadcasts only SD channels.
As reliable as in a news release directly from the BBC.
"BBC Three HD and CBBC HD will use capacity on the BBC’s existing HD multiplex, which has 98.5 per cent coverage of UK homes. BBC News HD, BBC Four HD and CBeebies HD will use new HD capacity, which will cover part of the UK and grow in coverage over time.
Lars