We have had FREE DAB and DVB-* TV for a few years in the UK now, i'm supprised how behind the US is with this (well i guess the US cant rule the world with everything lol).
The quality with most channels is very very good, but with the smaller networks/channels it can look pretty bad at times. You can really see the compression, which i guess is down to bandwitch/cost issue.
With the mobile phone companies (Nokia etc) who have just started using DVB to tranmit live TV channels to mobile phones using a for of DVB over hese (works pretty well BTW, the phones are not that big either), i would have thought they would use that in the states rather than have the extra cost of using a completely different standard over there.
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We have had FREE DAB and DVB-* TV for a few years in the UK now, i'm supprised how behind the US is with this (well i guess the US cant rule the world with everything lol).
The quality with most channels is very very good, but with the smaller networks/channels it can look pretty bad at times. You can really see the compression, which i guess is down to bandwitch/cost issue.
With the mobile phone companies (Nokia etc) who have just started using DVB to tranmit live TV channels to mobile phones using a for of DVB over hese (works pretty well BTW, the phones are not that big either), i would have thought they would use that in the states rather than have the extra cost of using a completely different standard over there.