Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/freeview_sheffield_switch/
Sheffielders must retune their Freeview boxes tomorrow
BBC channels move to make way for HD
Posted in Hardware, 16th March 2010 09:02 GMT
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Readers in the Sheffield area will tomorrow need to retune their Freeview boxes if they want to carry on watching BBC [1] channels.
Freeview said the change will have been implemented by 6am on the morning of 17 March, after which set-tops and tellies will need to be retuned.
The channels are moving to make room for the transmission of HD channels.
Reception of said broadcasts will take a little longer - you'll have to wait for suitable set-top boxes. Newcomer 3View said late last year that its debut Freeview HD box [2] will be out in March. Established player Humax has one in the works [3] too.
Freeview HD [4] uses the DVB-T2 [5] standard to broadcast the MPEG 4 [6] video streams used for the hi-def content. ®
Links
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/12/09/3view_stb/
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/20/humax_freeview_hd/
- http://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview/Services/Freeview-HD2
- http://www.dvb.org/technology/dvbt2/index.xml
- http://www.mpegif.org/mpeg4/
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/12/03/freeview_hd_launch_report/
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/23/freeview_hd_questions_answered/