Tagged with dvb-t2 - Personal View Talks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/dvb-t2/p1/feed.rss Tue, 05 Nov 24 14:42:10 +0000 Tagged with dvb-t2 - Personal View Talks en-CA HEVC based DVB-T2 in 1080p50 starting in Germany on 2016-06-01 http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/15148/hevc-based-dvb-t2-in-1080p50-starting-in-germany-on-2016-06-01 Mon, 30 May 2016 15:34:58 +0000 karl 15148@/talks/discussions Two days from now we'll know what the "theoretically best terrestic over-the-air TV broadcast service" announced so far will look like.

I'm writing "theoretically", because on paper the specifications look promising: HEVC encoded 1080p50 video - that's better than the existing 1080i format broadcasted over DVB-T2 in other countries. And up to 26.56 Mbit/s per channel would, theoretically, be enough for very good quality.

But then of course we all know that cost reduction will dictate that not quite the possible quality will be seen in pratice. They will certainly squeeze multiple programmes into those 25.56 Mbit/s, and at least one moronic TV-station (ZDF) has already announced that they will feed the broadcast from their 720p50 production infrastructure, only "upscaling" right before HEVC encoding. (And yes, ZDF mostly gets 1080i material, which they first have to downscale, de-interlace and frame-interpolate to 720p50 - so we can be sure that at least that channel will look like crap.)

But still I'm curious to see what this will look like and tune my LG OLED TV to the new terrestial signal, just for the fun of it.

(To anyone already receiving 4k channels via sattelite, this is certainly boring news - but even not many of those send progressive 50 frames per second.)

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