[streaming] Re: need to set up a US digital TV demo

Tristan Leteurtre tristan.leteurtre at videolan.org
Sat Aug 9 15:37:02 CEST 2003


On Sat, Aug 09, 2003, Benjamin PRACHT wrote:
> Certainly  a  silly  question,  but aren't  US  terrestrial  digital  TV
> operators using a different standard than DVB (I thought it was the case
> at leat for satellite digital TV)...

Well, as stated on
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/public_html/research/future-net/digital-video/dvb.html


"Milestones in DVB / MPEG-2
(...)
- 24th December 1996, U.S. Government adopts DTV as first step towards a
U.S. digital terrestrial network"

So, the hauppauge nova-T should also be ok to received DVB US digital
terrestrial TV.

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Tristan
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