BBC HD Settings for DVB-T Setup (1 Viewer)

[ukez]

Can anyone tell me the exact setting for all of the available HD channels broadcasting from Crystal Palace (UK), I'd like to add the details in to the Media Portal TV Configurator and see if i can pick up anything.

I've got all of the relevant codecs and applications... I just need the settings for the following:


BBC HD
UHF CHANNEL:
FREQUENCY:
Inversion:
NETWORK ID:
TRANSPORT ID:
SERVICE ID:
BANDWIDTH:
VIDEOpID:
AUDIOpID:


ITV HD
UHF CHANNEL:
Inversion:
FREQUENCY:
NETWORK ID:
TRANSPORT ID:
SERVICE ID:
BANDWIDTH:
VIDEOpID:
AUDIOpID:

CHANNEL 4 HD
UHF CHANNEL:
Inversion:
FREQUENCY:
NETWORK ID:
TRANSPORT ID:
SERVICE ID:
BANDWIDTH:
VIDEOpID:
AUDIOpID:

CHANNEL 5 HD
UHF CHANNEL:
Inversion:
FREQUENCY:
NETWORK ID:
TRANSPORT ID:
SERVICE ID:
BANDWIDTH:
VIDEOpID:
AUDIOpID:

And any others that may be available, if anyone knows...All help gratefully appreciated



Oh and :sorry: if this has been posted before, i'm guessing it has but i cant find the information i need ref DVB-T

 

[Mew]

Hi ukez

None of the channels you mention broadcast on DVB-T at present.

BBC HD broadcast as a trial which stopped in May 2007 and ITV HD broadcast as a trial from June until November 2006. Channel 4 HD and Channel 5 HD also took part in this trial during the summer of 2006.

At the moment BBC HD is available on DVB-S on Free to Air Satellite so is available on BSkyB and Freesat.
ITV HD is carried as a datastream on DVB-S and is only officially available on Freesat.
Channel 4 HD is now only avaliable encrypted by BSkyB and so you need a Sky card to watch this via DVB-S.
Five HD as far as I am aware does not exist at the present on any platform.

It appears that BBC HD carrying out test broadcasts again, this time from the Guildford transmitter but they are doing this using DVB-T2. So to receive this I guess you would need to be able to receive a signal from the Guildford transmitter and have a DVB-T2 card (which I am not sure are available yet).

It appears that Ofcom hope one of the DVB-T muliplexes will be converted to DVB-T2 by the end of 2009 to enable HD broadcasts.

Mew

 

[ukez]

Thanks for your response buddy, thats all i needed to know..

Can i ask few more things actually.......

1) Whats a good freesat box to get, can i pick one up off ebay that support up to 1080p?
2) do i have to have one of them big dish's to pick it up?
3) can you recommend a PC DVBs card that supports freesat HD channels
4) and do you know if them new Panasonic plasma TV's with integrated freesat are any good? (The Panasonic Viera Th 46PZ81 Plasma Tv)

any ideas pls?

Oh oh oh also, are their any free HD channels on Virgin, if so what box's work with them too..?


sorry for all the question, i dont expect answers for all of them lol

 

[Mew]

Hi ukez

I will try and give a few answers:

1) I don't have a Freesat box but looking on various forums the Humax Foxsat HD seems quite popular. It seems that it is better quality and the configuration is more flexible than some of the other boxes. In order to get ITV-HD, interactive services and the Freesat EPG you so need a box that says it does Freesat. A normal free to air box will only give you a now and next EPG and no ITV-HD (due to the way it is currently broadcast as a data stream). You will not get 1080p as broadcasts are either 720p or 1080i.

2) Depending where you are in the UK you will need at least a BSkyB mindish size dish. As you were talking about the Crystal Palace transmitter I assume you are nearish to London so the 43cm size dish should be sufficient. I bought one from and fitted it on my old house in Essex and it worked fine. I bought a 60cm one for my new house (which is a zone 2 dish) as the general advice was the bigger the dish the easier it will receive the signal and will be less affected by adverse weather. Unfortunately (probably due to the large trees where I now live) I currently cannot get a signal (well the meter says a signal is there but the box doesn't!). I need to get a professional to look at this but I haven't got around to it yet.

3) I use a pair of Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000s which are hybrid cards (you can only one of the tuners on a card at a time). They do analogue (although software encoded), DVB-T, DVB-S and DVB-S2 and when I last used satellite a year ago they received BBC-HD fine (I think BBC-HD is currently DVB-S rather than DVB-S2). They have always worked with TV Server and MediaPortal but they are an expensive option if you don't need the DVB-T or analogue part. A search on these forums will get you opions of other DVB-S2 cards. For HD you need to be looking at a DVB-S2 card.

4) The comments I have seen about the Panasonic TVs with integrated Freesat have seemed quite favourable, but again I would advise you do some searches to get a range of opinions.

Mew

 

[ukez]

Thank you

Mew...
Thanks for your help, its been much appreciated, catch you next time

 

[porky996t]

Just by way of information, I understand that the Winter Hill transmitter that feeds the Granada/North West England area will start transmitting DVB-T2 from Dec 2nd 2009. This will be the first one in the UK to do this.

They have recently (4/11/09) changed the BBC1 & 2 channels on this transmitter, and have now removed the analogue BBC2 transmission, thus leaving a space in the channels. It has been transmitting a low power HD test signal since 2006, and this HD signal apparently becomes a permanent feature from 2/12/09.

I just need to get a DVB-T2 dual tuner card now!