Posted by Jukka Aho on 11/14/06 03:13

Mikey wrote:

> If you don't need a Sky box to get BBC HD, how are they doing it?

I don't know anything about the subject, but I'll take a stab at it,
anyway:

BBC's own web site mentions that BBC HD is an experimental free-to-air
HD service which is available via satellite or cable:

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/digital/tv/tv_hd.shtml>

For receiving and recording BBC HD broadcasts on cable, you buy a DVB-C
tuner/demodulator card for your computer. For receiving and recording
BBC HD broadcasts from a satellite, you buy a DVB-S tuner/demodulator
card (or possibly a DVB-S2 tuner/demodulator card), instead. The data
you record is MPEG-2 transport stream, or possibly H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. I
don't think there's any more magic to it, but if there is someone will
surely correct me.

See

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-S>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-C>
<http://www.dvb.org/>
<http://www.google.com/search?q=dvb-c+card>
<http://www.google.com/search?q=dvb-s+card>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264>

--
znark

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