I was all for HD on freeview originally, but now Ofcom are selling the spare spectrum created by the switch off, all it's ever going to be is a limited service with only 10 mbps available to each of the 3 HD channels - BBCHD on freesat currently uses 16 mbps! and Sky sports 19 mbps.
Plus to create this limited service they are going to rob bandwidth from existing channels, thus reducing the existing picture quality of SD freeview channels.
Surely freesat is the best way to go, with massive bandwith for SD and HD channels, plus proven S2 technology and cheap and available receivers.
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Lee B @ Jul 2nd 2008 5:51PM
I was all for HD on freeview originally, but now Ofcom are selling the spare spectrum created by the switch off, all it's ever going to be is a limited service with only 10 mbps available to each of the 3 HD channels - BBCHD on freesat currently uses 16 mbps! and Sky sports 19 mbps.
Plus to create this limited service they are going to rob bandwidth from existing channels, thus reducing the existing picture quality of SD freeview channels.
Surely freesat is the best way to go, with massive bandwith for SD and HD channels, plus proven S2 technology and cheap and available receivers.