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2007
Stat-muxing over several channels (or how HDTV might be coming to Freeview)
Posted by: theDoc in HDTV, tags: DVB-T2, Freeview, HDTV, high definition, statistical multiplexingWhile we’re all eagerly awaiting OfCom’s expected announcement next month of an ambitious migration path that would transition Freeview from the current DVB-T transmission standard using MPEG-2 compression to the newer DVB-T2 and MPEG-4 standards by 2009, starting with a single multiplex, here’s some more news for those of us for whom HDTV on Freeview can’t come soon enough.
The Digital Terrestrial Television Action Group (DigiTAG) has suggested a spectrum efficiency improvement that could help ease the way for high definition to appear on the DTT platform. (more…)

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