Rte & DVB-T/DVB-H

daveirl

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DMC

DTT is on the way, slowly. It will be DVB-T.

The department of communications are dealing with it...
Basically, on this site, this is where we are..

http://www.dcmnr.gov.ie/Broadcasting/DTT+Pilot.htm

watty

DVB-H is for pay Video as 3G has turned out to be not much good for video. (Simplified "lies for children" sorry).

There will be DVB-h here.

The main difficulty with DTT seems to be that neither the Government wants to pay to set it up nor private enterprise since collapse of ONDigital as a PayTV service.

DTT in Ireland when it comes eventually is likely to be much different to originally envisaged.

Early type UK DTT / DVB-T receivers probabily won't work with the irish system, but current DVB-T PC Cards and set-boxes ought to work, though perhaps not the interactive feature if the original "phoneless" concept is kept.

Even in UK, DVB-h is a quite separate system.

daveirl

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DMC

But it will be pay-TV.... ya dont think that the phone networks are not gonna charge for it! Vodafone UK have Sky channels free until the end of January...

daveirl

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watty

No DVB-H just like any digital system can be FTA (Free TO Air) or Encrypted.
The reason for DVB-H is precisely that it is not efficeient (too slow and too costly) to have broadcast on 3G or GPRS.

There might be one or two free channels, but it will be primaraly a pay tv platform for the Phone operators.

If you want FTA terrestrial in 6 moths time in UK, it will have to be DVB-t, not the DVB-h built into phones.

The BBC can't charge for BBC1 .. BBC4. But the part owned UKTV channels are charged for. BBC Prime, BBC America are PAy TV channels run by BBC Enterprises, as is BBC World (Pay and Free on Satellite).

Confusinly BBC World TV is NOT the BBC World Service. The BBC World Service will be starting their own 1st TV channel in 2006.

So in fact we have FOUR bits of BBC TV:
1) The FTA Terrestrial analog/Digital/Satellite (BBC1 -BBC4, CBEEBIES, CBBC, BBC News 24)

2) The Flextech/BBC joint owned UKTV pay TV(Gold, Drama, etc)

3) BBC Enterprises (BBC World, BBC Food, BBC America etc)

4) BBC World Service (Starting TV soon)

BBC Parliament might be a 5th chunck.

They are also trailing BBC live TV via web/broadband with custom BBC player on PC.

DMC

daveirl wrote:

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I got that completely arse about head... yes.

Yes, confused the DVB-H trial they are doing in Oxford... O2 doing that?

watty

Never mind. Too much Christmas brandy. Now where did that chocolate gnome with santa clause suit foil go?