[mythtvnz] Freeview launch dates

Steven Ellis mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:43:59 +1300 (NZDT)


On Tue, February 27, 2007 9:44 am, Alick Wilson wrote:
> I received the following advice from Freeview yesterday:
>
> anticipated launch date and channels available for Freeview, as follows=
:
>     - Satellite - early May.  Definitive date available late April.
>     - Terrestrial Wellington (Kaukau) - currently scheduled for end of =
Feb
> '08
>     - Terrestrial Auckland (Waiatarua) - same as Wellington
>
> encoding formats (MPEG2 or MPEG4) for:
>     - Satellite - MPEG2 and Standard definition
>     - Terrestrial - MPEG4 and High definition
>
> Freeview's domain name is freeviewnz.tv. No website up, yet.

Interesting as I haven't had this update out of my own sources. My info
has been the Terrestrial will be a combination of SD and HD.

Steve
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