Read more.HD channels on Freeview are still on course for 2009, but certain regions may be left waiting until 2010.
Read more.HD channels on Freeview are still on course for 2009, but certain regions may be left waiting until 2010.
One hopes that these new Freeview channels will be equally available on HD services supplied by Sky and VM.
Another long wait in store for most then!
I just hope that PC hardware manufacturers are quick to the market with freeview HD tuners, although I don't expect them to be anything less than overpriced when they do come!! I wonder what performance impact these DVB-T2 tuners will have on system performance. Hopefully, a simple tuner upgrade will be fine for my HTPC.
Switch over for me is 2011.....that might be enough time for MS to have implemented HD support in Windows 7 media centre, although I won't hold my breath. MediaPortal 2 will probably be my first choice when its released.
I can't imagine performance of DVB-T2 cards would be any different to DVB-T, but if there is a performance impact it's going to be far out weighed by the general increase in system performance over the next couple of years.
It's a wait until 2011 for me, so I'm eager to hear Ofcom's plans to bring the World Cup to everyone in HD. I don't watch a lot of TV, but I'll be hooked during that tournament.
If you have to buy a freeview HD box people could just get freesat and have the HD channels now.
It sounds all nice etc, but FresView has four main issues for me, concerning HD.
- only 720p, which is the major concern when having a 1080i/p TV
- other than BBC HD, no other channel for another year...
- max of 3-5 channels to be expected
- still need to buy new hardware
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