Re: Status: Digital Terrestrial Television South Africa.

And also perhaps call Plessey/Tellumat who is manufacturing these set-top boxes… but beware the issues surrounding encryption/smartcards etc. that currently have stalled the process to a zero production….

> On 27 Sep 2016, at 12:47 PM, TJ de Klerk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> http://www.sentech.co.za/ ?
> 
> SENTECH offers signal distribution services to most of the country's
> licensed broadcasters which include the Public Broadcaster, Commercial and
> Community Broadcasters.
> 
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> TJ de Klerk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Brian Candler
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 September, 2016 12:39
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [IOZ] Status: Digital Terrestrial Television South Africa.
> 
>> Theres something running on that frequency but it's the digital
> equivalent of static.
> 
> Can you decode this signal with a cheap consumer DVB-T2 set-top box?
> 
> If yes, the the question becomes "where can I find the standards definition
> for DVB-T2 so that I can go about writing an SDR for it". If not, then the
> question is whether in your particular area, the signal is really DVB-T2 at
> all.
> 
> In the UK we use a mixture of DVB-T and DVB-T2. Older TVs and set-top boxes
> have only DVB-T, and DVB-T2 is currently only being used for HD broadcasts.
> 
> As I understand it, DVB-T2 provides around 40% higher bitrate for the same
> amount of spectrum and power, but uses a different modulation scheme so the
> older receivers can't use it. I believe the UK also uses different codecs
> (MPEG-2 for DVB-T, MPEG-4 for DVB-T4)
> 
> You can get some pointers to the technical specs at the ever-truthful
> wikipedia:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T2
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.
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