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Originally Posted by hansi
Could you settle an argument (discussion ) please. My friend bought a HD (not HD Ready) TV with basic Freeview and mantains that he can view HD channels on it. I say that he needs a HD feed (Virgin V+ or Sky HD) to receive HD channels. Who is right?
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its VERY SIMPLE,
Your right if the discussion is that your friend says he is watching UK Free
View and its Actually in High def...because its an HD TV.
it's Not High Def for the Very simple reason
there are No High Def Freeview broadcast DVB-T2 tuners in Anything for Consumer sale today, be it internal to the HDTV or an external freeview STB come to that...
technically, there are mainstream High Def Freeview DVB-
T2 terrestial AVC/H.264 Broadcasts right now, since 2 dec 2009, from the NW Greater manchester winterhill and the london transmitters, But there are NO OEM DVB-
T2 tuners in anything consumer related right now that are Needed to actually tune into these new HD terrestial broadcasts.
DVB-
T2 tuners are certainly Not in the HDTVs or STBs today, they Only have old DVB-T tuners.
Your friend and anyone else with the misconception of HDTV means
HD FreeView terrestial broadcasts Needs to understand, the Uk Only broadcast old
SD Mpeg2 transport streams over DVB-T, and the Old DVB-T tunner thats in Any HDTV thats advertised as freeview capable Today, So You Can NOT view true HD over terrestial TV any time soon, and Not without another bit of kit to plug into it later and feed it a true HD content.
upscaled digital SD is NOT true HD, and for that right now your Only choice is DVB-S(2) free
sat feed and STB or internal DVB-S HDTV sat tunners fitted inside your HDTV.
OC if you want to feed some forms (AVC/H.264)of true HD video into some of these HDTV's Directly this christmas, some of them such as Sony Bravia 5 series or some Samsung come with DLNA + RJ45 capabilitys as standard, and so you could stream feed your PC HD content directly to them with a copy of PS3Media Server running on a PC and an ethernet RJ45 cable connected to your LAN and PC.
http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/view...7c1be0c6ff852a