[mythtvnz] TVNZ announces High Definition plans

Steven Ellis steven at openmedia.co.nz
Sat Sep 29 02:56:17 BST 2007


Simon Green wrote:
> On 29/09/2007, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
>   
>> Daniel McKenzie wrote:
>>     
>>> I read on a hairy.geek.nz that EIT data isn't going to be included on DVB-T.
>>> Is that true?
>>>
>>>       
>> Nothing official on that. You might try contacting freeview to get an
>> answer.
>>     
>
> While I don't know anything official, I'd be suprised if this is the
> case. One of the big plus to freeview is having an EPG. It's available
> on DVB-S currently.
>
>   
The EIT EPG isn't the official freeview one, the MHEG-5 one is.

They will still be providing an MHEG-5 one on DTT, and it isn't that
difficult to produce XMLTV data off  MHEG-5.

Steve

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