> From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk > [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Bowden > Sent: 14 September 2010 09:42 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] Canvas - Open Source Consortium > > It should work. But not everything will work. The EPG > probably won't, nor the Now and Next. You're unlikely to get > "traditional teletext". > And if you're German, you won't get the menus in German. > > As a German would you buy a UK set top box? > > As a Brit would you buy a German set top box? >
I think you might be surprised Andrew how well DVB kit works across Europe from the larger manufacturers. The LCD screens we have in the office are an EU wide model that asks you for the country and language first time you switch them on, and because they are an EU wide design give us things like integrated DVB-C which we need - but wouldn't normally be available on a UK specific model. Teletext works, Subtitles work, Logical channel numbers work, Now and Next works for the current mux - and probably would work across all channels if I could ever get my head round the EIT correlator on the headend. Red button even works from the DVB-C tuner, as long as we have not done any SID/PID remapping when remuxing the services for the DVB ringmain. Admittedly most of this came as a surprise to me too, they were purchased because they were the cheepest 1080 panels in the catalogue - the feature set was a welcome bonus. -- Gareth Davis | Production Systems Specialist World Service Future Media, Digital Delivery Team - Part of BBC Global News Division * 500NE Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B 4PH * bbcworldservice.com - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
