Re: pace twin tuner pvr - multi-room functions

["Qriz B" <QrizB@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul" <groups@s...> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) [mailto:haweste@xxxxxxx...]
> Sent: 12 March 2003 08:02
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: pace twin tuner pvr - multi-room functions
>> I think it's just that i.e. "Free-to-air" /
"FTA". This is what
>> I've got (no Sky sub, just the freebie channels). IIRC you get
>> more "free" channels on Sky than you do with Freeview.
>
> Yes - I was expecting the 30 or so - but there are loads (TV mostly
> c**p of course) but I've got the family package on my Sky+ box for
> the better stuff.

As people have sussed, there's three different "free" TV services
common in the UK.

1. Digital terrestrial TV. All of this is Free To Air (FTA), in that
it's unencrypted and can be viewed by anyone with a receiver meeting
the DVB-T standards. This is the service that the Pace twin tuner PVR
is intended for use with.

2. Free To Air satellite channels from the 28.2 / 28.5 degrees East
orbital position. These two locations are principally used to
broadcast English-language TV to the British Isles. FTA channels are
unencrypted and can be viewed by anyone with a receiver meeting the
DVB-S standards.

3. Free To View (FTV) satellite channels from the 28.2 / 28.5 degrees
East orbital position. These transmissions are encrypted, and hence
aren't FTA. However, UK residents who pay a TV licence fee can get a
free smartcard to decrypt these channels, when used with a Sky
digibox (which is essentially a DVB-S decoder with a built-in NDS
Videoguard conditional access module (CAM)). This includes BBC TV,
BBC 5 live radio, ITV1, C4 and Five.

Interestingly, the BBC have just announced that, from the end of May,
they will be moving from FTV to FTA - so you won't need a smartcard
or Sky digibox, just a DVB-S decoder. However, they will be moving to
a different satellite, still at 28.2 East, with a tighter beam
pattern that is supposedly better focussed on the British Isles.

Does all that make sense?


QrizB



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