What's the future of UK TV?

Wig

Most if not all the TVs now are HD and some are freesat and freeview aswell. I'm wondering when all broadcasts will be in HD? Whether people without a satellite dish will need a new aerial to get the digital HD?

Does "digital switchover" equate to mean the start of HD broadcasting? And what is the difference between freeview and freesat?

Jaffa.

Internet + Goverment = redundancy of TV's and the future of Media

penrhyn

Most if not all the TVs now are HD and some are freesat and freeview aswell.

Very few programmes are available in High Definition.

I'm wondering when all broadcasts will be in HD?

Never, what would Dave and GOLD do for programmes?

Whether people without a satellite dish will need a new aerial to get the digital HD?

High Definition channels are planned for freeview, you will need a new HD Freeview box, but not a new aerial (unless your current one won't get existing Freeview.

Does "digital switchover" equate to mean the start of HD broadcasting?

NO.

And what is the difference between freeview and freesat?

Freeview is terrestrial, you receive it through an aerial.

Freesat is extra terrestrial, you receive it through a dish.

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-TangleFoot-

Wig wrote: »

Does "digital switchover" equate to mean the start of HD broadcasting?

It means that analogue broadcasts will cease.

Wig

penrhyn said,

Very few programmes are available in High Definition.
Never, what would Dave and GOLD do for programmes?

But they could upscale old programs into a HD transmission right?

High Definition channels are planned for freeview, you will need a new HD Freeview box, but not a new aerial (unless your current one won't get existing Freeview.

NO.

Freeview is terrestrial, you receive it through an aerial.

Freesat is extra terrestrial, you receive it through a dish.

thanks

Remember Google is your friend.

Not really, they have a lot of data protection issues.

DatabaseError

Wig wrote: »

But they could upscale old programs into a HD transmission right?

They could...but bandwidth costs £ ...HD substantially more than SD..so it's gonna be a long while (10+ years imo) before it happens.
I'm still happy with a SD CRT TV...when I replace it I want another one!

PROLIANT

It also means that because some un-educated numpty in a government office decided it would be cheaper and easier to pipe broadband internet data links down the uk 230V AC Mains network in order to save a few quid, that myself and thousands of fellow Radio Ham’s will suffer no end due to "Mains Born" interference, our frequencies will become near useless.
When will non-technical idiots stop making un-informed technical decisions just because they can?

Marty_J

PROLIANT wrote: »

It also means that because some un-educated numpty in a government office decided it would be cheaper and easier to pipe broadband internet data links down the uk 230V AC Mains network in order to save a few quid, that myself and thousands of fellow Radio Ham’s will suffer no end due to "Mains Born" interference, our frequencies will become near useless.
When will non-technical idiots stop making un-informed technical decisions just because they can?

The government is piping internet down the power lines?

Wig

PROLIANT wrote: »

It also means that because some un-educated numpty in a government office decided it would be cheaper and easier to pipe broadband internet data links down the uk 230V AC Mains network in order to save a few quid, that myself and thousands of fellow Radio Ham’s will suffer no end due to "Mains Born" interference, our frequencies will become near useless.
When will non-technical idiots stop making un-informed technical decisions just because they can?

Couldn't you make some sort of a suppressor/filter.

BTW I never heard of this as a plan for broadband for the future. The last I heard of the technology was a few years ago when it was invented and tested by an electricity company Nortel/Norad/Northern electric, I forget, but it started with 'N' I think. They went very quiet with the trials (which were quite successful) I guess when they realised they could not compete with the cable and BT. Are you sure they are planning to roll this out as an option to cable and BT line internet?

-TangleFoot-

Wig wrote: »

The last I heard of the technology was a few years ago

Similar technology is already being used by some to extend their local networks, but unfortunately this too causes problems for short-wave radio users. The devices themselves may be shielded, but the wiring they use for communication is not and that is what generates the interference.

I read somewhere that a single pair of powerline networking adapters can saturate the short-wave band for up to half a kilometre in every direction. Theoretically this could be solved by enclosing your house within a Faraday cage, but this would also do a pretty good job of isolating you from the rest of the world, electromagnetically speaking.

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