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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:03 am
Post subject: Free HD TV?
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| With these HD ready tellies with the built in freeview, I was wondering
if they will be able to pick up the BBC freeveiw and other such free HD
services without the need for additional equipment?
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:16 pm
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In article <1154444613.129764.73580 DeleteThis @h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
<chris66 DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote:
> With these HD ready tellies with the built in freeview, I was wondering
> if they will be able to pick up the BBC freeveiw and other such free HD
> services without the need for additional equipment?
There are no definite plans - or standards - for HD on FreeView. Nor is
there likely to be until the switch off of analogue transmissions which
may release more bandwidth.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:56 pm
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<chris66.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> With these HD ready tellies with the built in freeview, I was wondering
> if they will be able to pick up the BBC freeveiw and other such free HD
> services without the need for additional equipment?
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No. The current freeview tuners, even in HD Ready TV's do not have the
technology to support HD transmissions.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:46 am
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thanks for everyones replies
Cheers
Chris
loz wrote:
> <chris66 RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1154444613.129764.73580@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > With these HD ready tellies with the built in freeview, I was wondering
> > if they will be able to pick up the BBC freeveiw and other such free HD
> > services without the need for additional equipment?
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> No. The current freeview tuners, even in HD Ready TV's do not have the
> technology to support HD transmissions.
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:19 am
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:33:19 +0100, "the dog from that film you saw"
<dsb.RemoveThis@REMOVETHECAPITALSbtinternet.com> wrote:
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><chris66.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1154444613.129764.73580@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> With these HD ready tellies with the built in freeview, I was wondering
>> if they will be able to pick up the BBC freeveiw and other such free HD
>> services without the need for additional equipment?
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>nope - but if you purchase a hi def satellite box you can watch the BBC
>broadcasts for free.
Or if you buy a 50 quid card for your PC you can watch the BBC HD
broadcasts for free.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:46 pm
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> There are no definite plans - or standards - for HD on FreeView. Nor is
> there likely to be until the switch off of analogue transmissions which
> may release more bandwidth.
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Bandwidth which no doubt will end up being used for more pointless quiz and
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:26 pm
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In article <44d11d23_1.TakeThisOut@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>,
Richard Jones <me.TakeThisOut@home.com> wrote:
> > There are no definite plans - or standards - for HD on FreeView. Nor
> > is there likely to be until the switch off of analogue transmissions
> > which may release more bandwidth.
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> Bandwidth which no doubt will end up being used for more pointless quiz
> and shopping channels :-(
Luckily they don't use much bandwidth by the picture quality. Still too
much though.
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:08 am
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:42:06 +0100, "the dog from that film you saw"
<dsb.RemoveThis@REMOVETHECAPITALSbtinternet.com> wrote:
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>"Nigel Barker" <nigel.RemoveThis@hp.com> wrote in message
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>>>nope - but if you purchase a hi def satellite box you can watch the BBC
>>>broadcasts for free.
>> Or if you buy a 50 quid card for your PC you can watch the BBC HD
>> broadcasts for free.
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>do such cards include the x264 decoding or does your pc have to do that
>bit? - reason being x264 makes my 3ghz pc cry....
No hardware decoding 50-60% CPU utilisation on my AMD 3800 X2
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:05 am
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:51:52 +0100, "the dog from that film you saw"
<dsb.TakeThisOut@REMOVETHECAPITALSbtinternet.com> wrote:
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>"Nigel Barker" <nigel.TakeThisOut@hp.com> wrote in message
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>>>do such cards include the x264 decoding or does your pc have to do that
>>>bit? - reason being x264 makes my 3ghz pc cry....
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>> No hardware decoding 50-60% CPU utilisation on my AMD 3800 X2
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>i must be using an incredibly bad codec in that case - which one do you use?
CoreAVC
BTW That's 50-60% utilisation of both cores. My single core P4 3GHz is not up to
the job.
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:15 am
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"Nigel Barker" <nigel RemoveThis @hp.com> wrote in message > Or if you buy a 50 quid
card for your PC you can watch the BBC HD
> broadcasts for free.
Which £50 DSAT card do you recommend? - just in case I ever get a
sufficiently
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