Stephen Rowles wrote: >>> This will be DVB-S2 transmissions including HD content, and will use the >>> Eurobird 1 satellite situated at 28.5° east (from what I can find on the >>> web). >> >> You may be right about this but so far everything I've seen suggests >> that Freesat will be DVB-S. I've not seen anything about DVB-S2. Do >> you have a reference for this? >I cannot find the site I originally found, but it was a list of hardware >specs for various Freesat boxes, and they were all S2. >Looking around (digitalspy forums) it would appear that SD content is all >DVB-S, but when they start the HD transmissions that will be DVB-S2 (h.264 >IIRC, but again I cannot find a good reference). >The old BBC site had more info, but now it is a flash marketing site :) The current BBC HD transmissions, prior to the official launch of Freesat are DVB-S, and broadcast From Astra 28.2E. There was some talk of a possible move to DVB-S2 at some time in the future, but I don't have a reference for this and haven't seen anything more about it in the last few months. AFAIK, all the current BBC HD transmissions are 1080i. regards, John _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
