Launch of world-first high power DVB-H trial in Sydney

[m***@gmail.com]

This was announced on Digital Broadcasting Australia, URL
http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?display=news&newsID=704
Channel 29 is now broadcasting 10 stations that a digital set top box
cannot decode.
Couldn't they broadcast on a channels we cannot tune into?
Why do our digital set top boxes have to be "spammed" with channels we
cannot decode?
Furthermore, why don't the FTA TV restrictions seem to apply to these
DVB-H transmissions?
We free to air people have to put up with a lot but multichanneling
FOXTEL, Sky Channel and other commercial content... seems to me Packer
likes rubbing government legislation in our faces.
OT - If mobile phones can receive Digital TV transmissions so easily,
why are we still buggering about with large antennas and very large set
top boxes?
Anyone got any technical details, especially w.r.t. the antenna design
for DVB-H antennas for mobile phones?
Could they be adapted, perhaps, to be built into digital TV decoders?

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mattabat

[1***@compuserve.com]

The coding method used is H263 and not MPEG2 so no ordinary decoder can
pick up the channels.
The equipment being used is proprietary NOKIA gear so you can only get
it on NOKIA phones.
There was another channel running very low power during the last week
at the SMPTE conference at Darling Harbour running WM9 that was
receivable in the hall there but the show finished on Friday.
The antenna are built into the phones.