HDTV Europes first hi-def tv channel

[poostopper]

As of 1st of Jan Europe started broadcasting its first hdtv channel "1080" from ASTRA 19.2

Its FTA. Any one recieving this with a standard digital reciever or skystar PC card?

[kracken]

heres a pic from me mate

[stevo25]

whats he using to view it ??

[kracken]

a B2C2 Broadband Receiver PCI ( 1 u get when u subscribe to europeonline ) on 19.2°E

[EvilBoB]

I am seriously considering getting this for my plasma. I've been keeping an eye on it. Need to give some support to HDTV or we'll never get a proper HDTV service in the UK

[kracken]

I am seriously considering getting this for my plasma. I've been keeping an eye on it. Need to give some support to HDTV or we'll never get a proper HDTV service in the UK

i doubt will will ever see a fully fledged HDTV service in the UK m8 there just aint enuf end users for domestic broadcast so i guess its just upto the european broadcasters for the odd chan here and there

[kracken]

The maximum resolution currently offered or planned by the UK and European DTT services, which use the DVB standards (see www.dvb.org for details) is 720 by 576 luminance pixels. There are no plans for High Definition services, although technically such services could be provided using the very flexible DVD standards, as is being done in Australia. The truth is that nobody in Europe seems to have yet made a profitable business case for such services. As an example, if a company came up with a suitable business plan, the data that is currently used to provide up to about six standard definition TV programmes on a single radio-frequency multiplex could instead be utilised to provide a single high-definition service, perhaps accompanied by a standard definition version of the same service. At the present time broadcasters appear to believe that there is more profit to be made from using a given data rate to provide multiple channels rather than a single higher-defintion service.

[EvilBoB]

Fine by me... They can get rid of UKStyle and the Reality channel for starters... then there is those dodgy shopping channels - I'd gladly give up about 80% of the channels I currently receive in order to receive ONE HDTV channel

[kracken]

HISTORY – TV TO HDTV

1930 Television first broadcast from Alexandra Palace – 30 lines, 5fps, black and white

1936 405-line B&W system broadcast regularly until 1939. Then again from 1946



1959 USA started the first colour TV service – known as NTSC (the National Television Systems Committee or Never Twice the Same Colour) – 525 lines. The same today.

1967 Britain broadcasting colour TV – 625 lines - the current PAL standard

1973 Japan starts world’s first HDTV service – 1125 lines - analogue

1985 European HD standard proposed and demonstrated but never transmitted. 1250 lines.

1995 ATSC standards established and accepted

1997 Digital SDTV first broadcast in the UK by Sky, OnDigital, etc.

Today Digital HDTV is broadcast in the USA, Japan, Australia and Korea – but NOT in Europe!

pity about 1985 *gutted*