DTT well at least theres 5 behind us.

tapfit2004

Adopted & Launched
Services already on air.

Albania
Andorra
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Mauritius
Namibia
Netherlands
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
United Kingdom

Adopted & Pre-Launch
Services due to launch within six months.

Cape Verde
Norway
Portugal
Ukraine

DVB-T Adopted
There are trials on-going in most of these countries.

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brunei
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Cyprus
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Laos
Latvia
Macedonia
Malaysia
Myanmar
New Zealand
Poland
Romania
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Turkey
Vietnam

DVB-T Pilot Broadcasts
No formal adoption but widespread pilots.

Belarus
Israel
Moldova
Philippines
South Africa

and with countries like Albania,Azerbaijan and Namibia, who have money to burn, already up and running we shouldn't feel so bad.

Ulsterman 1690

Hows Bhutan coming along

watty

Unlike Ireland, Israel has its own Digital Satellite service, in fact with extra capacity they sell space on their 3 satellites to others. They don't really need DTT. Also with all those apartment blocks and big solar water panels they don't notice extra dishes I would think.

Ulsterman 1690

Unlike Ireland, Israel has its own Digital Satellite service

Are you suggesting Ireland should follow suit and have TWO dishes on every house ?

Unless maybe 22.2 East is free so that people could use monoblocks

watty

No... But I'm pointing we are in this situation due to lack of vision and ineptitude in UK and Ireland. No-one in UK or Ireland should have been using 19E, nor later 28.2 for default local services

In both cases this was Sky/Murdoch ignoring international agreements and allocations.

In the 28.2E case Astra had to pay compensation to Eutelsat and Central Europe is deprived of a large chunk of 28.2 bandwidth.

Unfortunately we are now stuck with the less suitable 28.2 instead of higher elevation atlantic slot, the best than can be done is to rent transponder from Astra instead of Sky having it.

There should be unified approach to TV & Radio planning considering providers, exploitive US & Sports rights holders, UK TV, Cable, MMDS, Satellite, Fibre, Handset DVH-h, IPTV streaming services, text interactive & EPG and Terrestiral just part of the picture.

But our government(s) since 1922 has never shown proactive visionary leadership about anything bar maybe the Shannon Scheme for Electric.

Ulsterman 1690

I always thought it daft that most Central/East European countries are on 13 East and UK/Ireland used 28 East. Other way around would have made more sense but were stuck with it now.

But our government(s) since 1992 has never shown proactive visionary leadership about anything bar maybe the Shannon Scheme for Electric.

Ummm Ireland had electricity well before 1992

FunkyDa

Ulsterman 1690 wrote:

Are you suggesting Ireland should follow suit and have TWO dishes on every house ?

Unless maybe 22.2 East is free so that people could use monoblocks

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055075467.
This is a PROBLEM?

watty

Yes, Ulsterman, the planners gave us and UK more sensible Western slots and 28 is for Central Europe. It shows what can happen when regulation is weak or non-existent.

Thanks for pointing out my typo.