Stat-muxing over several channels (or how HDTV might be coming to Freeview)

While we’re all eagerly awaiting OfCom’s expected announcement next month of an ambitious migration path that would transition Freeview from the current DVB-T transmission standard using MPEG-2 compression to the newer DVB-T2 and MPEG-4 standards by 2009, starting with a single multiplex, here’s some more news for those of us for whom HDTV on Freeview can’t come soon enough.
The Digital Terrestrial Television Action Group (DigiTAG) has suggested a spectrum efficiency improvement that could help ease the way for high definition to appear on the DTT platform. Continue reading Stat-muxing over several channels (or how HDTV might be coming to Freeview)

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