Simon Thompson wrote:
We'll also be radiating a DVB-T (aka "Freeview") signal for you guys to hack around with. We've got some USB DVB-T sticks, some software links and a talk on how to hack DVB-T and MHEG interactive stuff.
Just to clarify - this won't be a rebroadcast of one of the existing Freeview multiplexes: it's something we've put together just for Mashed. Broadcasting all weekend on UHF channel 36 inside Alexandra Palace, the DVB-T network will contain two "Mashed TV" channels that will carry the lecture streams from Saturday morning, a bunch of videos from the O'Reilly Makezine Weekend Projects, some goofy idents created by gen-yoo-ine BBC research engineers and, in theory, anything that people give to us on the day (rights permitting, naturally).
Obviously you'll be too busy hacking to watch telly though, so to give you something to play with, there will be all the non-video goodies associated with digital TV, too: full schedule information available in EIT and TV-Anytime formats, a rebroadcast of BBC One complete with subtitles, audio description and so forth, and a rather special "red button" interactive service provided by our colleagues from the interactive TV teams: they want to get people writing their own Internet-deployed interactive TV apps, and there will be IP-enabled set-top-boxes at Mashed for you to test them out on.
http://mashed08.backnetwork.com/event/?articleid=24 gives some more technical details, and I'll be kicking off the "How to hack the BBC's TV services" session on Saturday morning with a brief talk about the potential of digital TV for cool hacks.
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