[mythtvnz] TVNZ announces High Definition plans

Daniel McKenzie daniel.mckenzie at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 00:49:13 BST 2007


I read on a hairy.geek.nz that EIT data isn't going to be included on DVB-T. 
Is that true?

Daniel McKenzie
http://www.daniels.net.nz

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From: "Steven Ellis" <steven at openmedia.co.nz>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:18 AM
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] TVNZ announces High Definition plans

> Matt Poff wrote:
>> Another big question is whether these feeds will use some form of
>> encoding which authorised Freeview set-top boxes will understand and PCs
>> won't... in which case I guess it's component out (or optical) to a pci
>> card.  Even then, is  it only a matter of time before  the display
>> device itself (i.e.  the HD TV will need to  decode a stream)?
>>
>> In my case UHF reception here is rubbish anyway so it's a moot point!
>>
>>
> I've been speaking to Steve Browning and the word is it will be plain
> vanilla DVB-T. So no issue performing capture on MythTV.
>
> Plus if you capture off an "official" STB you will have to capture at SD
> because of HDCP on the HDMI connection.
>
> Steve
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