By: thesociable

thesociable
Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:31:21 +0000

In reply to RoderickYoung.

@RoderickYoung The BBC are using a 10 year old system (Which was state-of-the art at the time) and are currently testing MPG4 encoding in London at the moment. The advantage of MPG4 is that it will allow more channels, with higher video quality, on a smaller amount of the spectrum. If RT? were to use the Freeview system they would have to update very soon to MPG4, costing users more.

You are correct that many DTT devices bought in Ireland in the past decade will not be able to recieve RT?’s digital signal. Consumers will have to buy another DTT set-top box compatable with Saorview. Although, with that said, more and mre TV’s being produced now can decode both MPG2 & MPG4.