http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/ Engadget Comments for Humax HD-FOX T2 and Panasonic TX-P42G20B become the first Freeview HD tuners on sale in the UK http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Feb 19th 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Feb 19th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/
Don't worry, the lower figure isn't realistic either. 600Hz is just more nonsense to confuse consumers.]]>Feb 19th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Feb 19th 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Feb 19th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Feb 19th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T2]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Feb 19th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/
http://freeview.co.uk/freeview/Channels]]>Feb 19th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Nope, its definitely terrestrial OTA.
http://freeview.co.uk/freeview/Help/Aerials-and-Reception/Aerials-and-reception-explained
Same with FreeviewHD
http://freeview.co.uk/freeview/Resolutions/About-Freeview-HD/About-Freeview-HD/What-is-Freeview-HD]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/"it's satellite"
no.. no it's not.. that's freesat...]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Feb 19th 2010 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/
I think your confusing freeview with freesat. Incidently free-to-view HD broadcasts have be avalible via freesat for a while now.]]>Feb 19th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/
Ahhhhhhh...spelling mistakes!]]>Feb 19th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.freesat.co.uk? Is there room for both Freeview HD and Freesat in the UK? Both Humax and Panasonic have promoted Freesat and released good products. Now they are promoting Freesat. Does Freeview have the bandwidth to provide HD content? Regular content on Freesat is often poor quality. Then again better picture quality didn't help Betamax versus VHS.
]]>Feb 19th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/
Freeview SD uses MPEG-2 - so needs a lot of bandwidth for a decent picture.
Freeview HD uses MPEG-4 - so a lower bandwidth needed.
So, the new Freeview HD boxes need to have 2 decoders for the different signals.

What I want is for the existing Freeview channels to move to MPEG-4 so for the same bandwidth we can gave a better image or other channels can come online or we can have more HD content.

]]>Feb 19th 2010 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/My opinion is that is all a well thought plot to milk the cash out of people's wallets: first they gave us HD ready TVs with only analog tuners, then came digital (DVB-T MPEG2) tuners, and of course, at the very end there were TVs with integrated DVB-T and DVB-C (both supporting MPEG2 and MPEG4) tuners. In the mean time, they didn't educate their customers, so they waited for everyone to buy the first round of slim and sexy TVs (compared to old CRTs), and little by little started adding "value added" stuff like those digital tuners .....(which you then sometimes had to hack the TV set to enable them i.e. Philips - digital tuner was country-dependant, /so that meant that if you were living in a country that wasn't on their list of countries that had digital terrestrial broadcasting - no digital tv for you, and it didn't matter if you changed your location in settings to another country, you had to punch in the service code and go into the service menu where you had to find and unlock that functionality/).....plus all the other things, but the bottom line is, if you don't want a cable/IPTV set top box, and want to watch HD over the air, you'll either buy a new tv or a rather pricey stb.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/
No, it's DVB-T2, which is a much more efficient carrier. For once I think our usually idiotic regulators have done the right thing. No point in moving to HD over DVB-T, then complain in a few years that we've run out of bandwidth for HD; and tell everyone to buy yet another TV/box to get the same HD, just over a different carrier, and maybe a few more (HD) shopping channels.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/The UK is finishing its roll out of SD Freeview in 2012.
The HD standard is a different encoder, so it looks like there is going to be a need for 2 different digital standards to run side by side as the old tuners will not decode the new signals.

I know I'm waiting to see what happens with the Freeview HD before deciding whether to go with FreeSat or Freview HD.]]>Feb 19th 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/
At the moment Freesat has the advantage of (limited) HD content available nationwide, whereas Freeview is rolling out regionally over the next couple of years. The big question is will both platforms survive?]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/
Price should be below £100 by then.]]>Feb 19th 2010 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Feb 20th 2010 3:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Feb 20th 2010 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/humax-hd-fox-t2-and-panasonic-tx-p42g20b-become-the-first-freevi/Cheers for the info. I'll hold off upgrading my PS3 harddrive then if it's not going to be a viable long-term solution for freeview. I'll maybe look into a HTPC solution or something then.]]>Feb 20th 2010 10:24AM