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<blockquote data-quote="Roberdin" data-source="post: 96720" data-attributes="member: 17517"><p>The only thing is that it's not a major concern at the moment because only one transmitter (Crystal Palace, London) is transmitting HD Broadcasts. As I said before, it's on low power so you really need to be within a few miles of the Palace to pick it up. That said, it has allegedly been received as far away as Reading, but perhaps the lucky recipient was using a high-gain aerial and a series of amplifiers. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I don't know about the rest of Europe but I've not heard about many foreign DVB-T HD broadcasts. So Crystal Palace and possibly, in the near future, a transmitter on the Scottish border are about the only transmitters in Europe trialling this. Not a massive audience.</p><p></p><p>Now, once analogue is switched off we may see some of the old bandwidth being devoted to new muxes. However, since each HD channel needs an entire mux, or perhaps half for comparatively low HD quality, it might difficult for broadcasters to persuade the relevant authorities that one HD channel is better than five SD, or wireless internet coverage, or whatever else they're planning to do with the freed-up frequencies. Of course, I'd rather have BBC HD1 than another dozen shopping channels any day. But that's me.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, back to the point... I'm no expert on this, but I'd have thought that providing the right codecs are installed (ffdshow now integrates a semi-stable H.264 codec), it shouldn't require too much for MediaPortal to receive, record, and show HD - it just needs to use the CPU rather than the card to encode it. Or something.</p><p></p><p>Whether that (little?) addition to the TV server is worth the demograph they'd be satisfying is not my choice to make, but it would certainly give MediaPortal a lead over a lot of other products - I don't know of any free, easy, integrated solution for watching HD on a PC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roberdin, post: 96720, member: 17517"] The only thing is that it's not a major concern at the moment because only one transmitter (Crystal Palace, London) is transmitting HD Broadcasts. As I said before, it's on low power so you really need to be within a few miles of the Palace to pick it up. That said, it has allegedly been received as far away as Reading, but perhaps the lucky recipient was using a high-gain aerial and a series of amplifiers. :) I don't know about the rest of Europe but I've not heard about many foreign DVB-T HD broadcasts. So Crystal Palace and possibly, in the near future, a transmitter on the Scottish border are about the only transmitters in Europe trialling this. Not a massive audience. Now, once analogue is switched off we may see some of the old bandwidth being devoted to new muxes. However, since each HD channel needs an entire mux, or perhaps half for comparatively low HD quality, it might difficult for broadcasters to persuade the relevant authorities that one HD channel is better than five SD, or wireless internet coverage, or whatever else they're planning to do with the freed-up frequencies. Of course, I'd rather have BBC HD1 than another dozen shopping channels any day. But that's me. Anyway, back to the point... I'm no expert on this, but I'd have thought that providing the right codecs are installed (ffdshow now integrates a semi-stable H.264 codec), it shouldn't require too much for MediaPortal to receive, record, and show HD - it just needs to use the CPU rather than the card to encode it. Or something. Whether that (little?) addition to the TV server is worth the demograph they'd be satisfying is not my choice to make, but it would certainly give MediaPortal a lead over a lot of other products - I don't know of any free, easy, integrated solution for watching HD on a PC. [/QUOTE]
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