Alan wrote: > I assume my topfield HD will be out of date with these proposed > changes?
Ant replied: > You'll need to retune, but the services you currently get on Freeview > should still be available. Think of Freeview + as an optional > upgrade. To which Alun wrote: > I meant in terms of the HD element if they are changing the spec? If there is a > decryption requirement I doubt the Topfield will have it? I would say you're right, your box wont' receive HD freeview signals. But that's not (only) because of any encryption, it's because the spec for encoding HD over freeview [1] was only agreed last week and the first box was announced five days ago, to be released "in the first half of 2010": http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2009/09/12/pace-unveils-dvb-t2-freeview-h d-box/ I guess you have this box [2]: http://www.topfield.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1 0&catid=2&Itemid=3 It uses "HDMI upscaling" to work with your HD TV. But it's not actually processing the real freeview HD signal and never can -- your box needs different chips to be able to do that. So to actually see Freeview HD in HD, you will need to buy a new box :-( HTH, Brendan. [1] known as DVB-T2. The DVB are the standards committee for most TV standards in Europe, India, Australia etc. The BBC is a member. DVB-T was the standard for regular freeview, so DVB-T2 is the standard for next-gen freeview: the "T" is for terrestrial. You can guess that DVB-C is for cable and DVB-S is for satellite... They also have C2 and S2 standards for HD over those platforms. [2] URL edited for brevity -- yes it was much longer than that before -- but it seems to work... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
