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[alanh]

Bassett,
You won't get receivers until there are transmissions.
As for models look at the UK websites for all the manufacturers. All HD receivers can receive DVB-T2/MPEG-4 otherwise they cannot receive any HD programs.

AlanH

[mel816]

alanh, on 03 May 2012 - 11:13 PM, said:

Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma are going DVB-T2/MPEG-4.
Indonesia on its own has 238 million people.

AlanH

Also the Philippines with MPEG-4, although they'll be using ISDB-T instead of DVB-T2

[alanh]

Mel,
ISDB-T started off in Japan using MPEG-2 compression. Then the Brazilians decided to adopt it with the modification of using MPEG-2. It is has now spread to all of South America except Columbia and French Guiana which are DVB

Some countries in South America use 25 frame/s and others 30 frame/s. They use the same transmission standard which uses the same channel frequencies as ATSC channels which are all 6 MHz wide.

Now ISDB-T international is the Brazilian version which has been adopted by the Phillipines even the Maldrive Islands have adopted ISDB-T international but on 8 MHz wide channels.

[DrP]

Quite a difficult modification that, using MPEG-2 ... instead of MPEG-2.

[M'bozo]

jsmith, on 04 May 2012 - 09:21 AM, said:

I'm planning on converting myself to an mpeg-4 bit stream and shooting myself around the world just like in Lawnmower Man...

In Superman S5 Ep9, (original air date May 3 1957), Professor Pepperwinkle's new invention, the De-atmosphering Chamber, is introduced.

This is a machine that can transport anything, even people, via the telephone lines, after removing the air from between the molecules from which they are constructed.

While this appears, from the film, to be a slow analogue process, it predates the suggestion quoted above.

This post has nothing much to do with anything. Kinda like this thread.

[jsmith]

M, on 07 May 2012 - 07:28 PM, said:

In Superman S5 Ep9, (original air date May 3 1957), Professor Pepperwinkle's new invention, the De-atmosphering Chamber, is introduced.

This is a machine that can transport anything, even people, via the telephone lines, after removing the air from between the molecules from which they are constructed.

While this appears, from the film, to be a slow analogue process, it predates the suggestion quoted above.

This post has nothing much to do with anything. Kinda like this thread.

M'Bozo, I don't want to lose any of my resolution in a DAC... I've already lost enough of my soul by using MPEG-4.

I'm already in the system anyway, watching you all.

JSmith

P.S. ... by the way I believe in the year 3064 the colonies on Mars will be using DVB-T2, we'd better hurry up.

[alanh]

Quote

"Vietnam adopted the DVB-T2 standard last year, while Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia are expected to launch digital TV on the same system this year. The average cost of a DVB-T2 set-top box is US$25 (Bt800)."

Bt is the Thai Bart.

http://www.nationmul...s-30182778.html

This is the second time I have seen this price out of China.

AlanH

[DrP]

*woooosh*

That was the issues with regards to broadcasting in Australia, so clear that even the broadcasters themselves talk about them, passing 20,000' over alanh's head.

Edited by DrP, 29 May 2012 - 07:41 AM.

[M'bozo]

*woooosh*

Is that not the sound of a deadline going past?



And because I can:

[M'bozo]

Edit: double post.

Edited by M'bozo, 30 May 2012 - 06:00 PM.

[DrP]

M, on 30 May 2012 - 05:57 PM, said:

Is that not the sound of a deadline going past?

Might have been.  So many deadlines and the associated predictions failed to materialise that it's hard to keep up.

[alanh]

Columbia will start a whole national network simultaneously on 1st Jan 2013 using DVB-T2.

Singapore will be all DVB-T2 by the end of 2013. Buying a receiver in Singapore will not be feasible unless it has Australia as an installation option.

The Philippines, which is the only country in the Asian region yet to make a decision on their choice for a digital terrestrial transmission system

Sony now manufacturing a single integrated circuit demodulator capable of DVB-T, DVB-T2 and DVB-C2. C2 is a higher capacity modulation system for cable TV.

AlanH

[DrP]

Strange.  I could have sworn that alanh a certain forum member previously advised in other threads that DVB-T2 receivers were capable of DVB-T.  I guess that forum member must have been wrong.  That or the advice above is wrong.

I wonder which it is.  

There's a lesson here:  if you bullshit for long enough sooner or later you will end up stepping in it.

Reality check.  No one goes to Singapore to buy a TV and then lug it all the way back to Australia.  I doubt that many would even consider web purchase and import given the costs involved of transport and customs duty.  The only people likely to bring a set in from Singapore would be someone moving from there to here and the general advice given on the forum holds:  it might work, but you'll probably end up buying a STB to run it.

Edited by DrP, 06 July 2012 - 07:24 AM.

[sirhc55]

Gentlemen please. We have to realise that there are two ingenious people existing in our universe, God and alanh.

My suggestion would be to not reply to any of his posts as it just feeds food to the fool.