DVB-T in Australia?

[zehd]

I have been starting to look into my options for GB-PVR-ing when I move to Australia.

I have read that DVB-T is a standard that originated in Europe, but has been adopted in Australia.

Would it be the same standard exactly, so I could get a Hauppauge Nova T http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/...atpci.html and use it in Oz?

I've been very happy with my Hauppauge 150's and will probably still use them for analog signals, but I'm not set on Hauppauge. Are there better DVB-T cards out there?

And while I'm at it, what are Aussies doing for EPG besides ICETV ?

[ACTCMS]

Could be so... There's a computer store in Oz offering on ebay a NOVA-T-500 for sale on an international basis... well they quote a shipping cost to the UK.

[bgowland]

...Would it be the same standard exactly, so I could get a Hauppauge Nova T...

There are differences but they're not hardware specific - the Nova-T will work in Australia.

It was thanks to Australia having a slightly different DVB-T system that sub was able to provide multiple Nova-T support in GB-PVR way back...via the UK. (Long story ).

Cheers,
Brian

[sub]

DVB-T in Oz is pretty much identical to DVB-T in Europe with exception of doing high definition MPEG2 instead of standard definition MPEG2 used in Europe. These channels should all work fine with GB-PVR.

Europe is much later to the game introducing high definition TV, and just starting to do it now, and seems to be going with MPEG4 instead of MPEG2.

[K.S.]

Europe is much later to the game introducing high definition TV, and just starting to do it now, and seems to be going with MPEG4 instead of MPEG2.

/SARCASM ON
damn... i thought germany is in europe? i gotta sign up for that campaign http://mapsforus.org (and south africa & irak), they definitely have to put germany to that list too.
/SARCASM OFF

in germany, as they have only introduced SDTV via DVB-T only near major cities and regions with high populations (and the commercial stations reduce their support even further) it's unlikely they will ever broadcast anything like HDTV or the currently developed DVB-T2. "we can't expect people to replace / throw away their recently bought set top boxes... how can we justify to the public stopping the transmission of one TS including different broadcast SD channels to get the frequencies free needed for HDTV channels?"

i should be happy about getting all broadcast channels free aka not scrambled

[herbs]

I've been very happy with my Hauppauge 150's and will probably still use them for analog signals, but I'm not set on Hauppauge. Are there better DVB-T cards out there?

If you are using the analogue tuner on the pvr150 these will not work as you have ntsc tuners and the Aussies use PAL.

[zehd]

If you are using the analogue tuner on the pvr150 these will not work as you have ntsc tuners and the Aussies use PAL.

All right. So then I'm hooped... I really thought that the PVR150s could switch from NTSC to PAL...

[bgowland]

If you look at the Hauppauge Web Store http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware.asp

You'll see they list seperate NTSC and PAL versions. Obviously composite inputs etc. will still be OK so you could still feed from an STB with an IR blaster.

Cheers,
Brian

[zehd]

If you look at the Hauppauge Web Store http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware.asp

You'll see they list seperate NTSC and PAL versions. Obviously composite inputs etc. will still be OK so you could still feed from an STB with an IR blaster.

Cheers,
Brian

Wait a minute. You're saying that I can feed a PAL STB via composite video to the PVR150 NTSC and it would still work?

[bgowland]

Wait a minute. You're saying that I can feed a PAL STB via composite video to the PVR150 NTSC and it would still work?

Hmmm, actually now that I think about it, I might be wrong. When I posted, I was thinking that composite video signals were of a universal format, but they are variable depending on region and can be NTSC, PAL or SECAM.

I've a feeling it probably won't work after all - sorry. :o

Cheers,
Brian