Comments on: PhotoGeek Week#80 That Firestorm http://photogeek.tv/Pages/2009/02/11/photogeek-week80/ Podcast for the geek photographer Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:58:11 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: james http://photogeek.tv/Pages/2009/02/11/photogeek-week80/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 james Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:39:10 +0000 http://photogeek.tv/Pages/?p=358#comment-1502 Hi Guys, About the Freeview gripes, They are in NZ at least a mostly government initiative, The HD is higher quality than the stuff in the US as it uses h.264 video and AAC audio. Open source apps like MythTV can easily read the video and decode the EPG using a tuner card. The reason for starting it is so they can free up the analogue signals for other uses. The switchoff is planned for when 75% of NZ have access to digital television, or 2012, whichever is sooner. Wikipedia have more info... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(New_Zealand) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(Australia) Hi Guys,

About the Freeview gripes, They are in NZ at least a mostly government initiative, The HD is higher quality than the stuff in the US as it uses h.264 video and AAC audio. Open source apps like MythTV can easily read the video and decode the EPG using a tuner card.

The reason for starting it is so they can free up the analogue signals for other uses. The switchoff is planned for when 75% of NZ have access to digital television, or 2012, whichever is sooner.

Wikipedia have more info…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(New_Zealand)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(Australia)

]]> By: The_BigBueCat http://photogeek.tv/Pages/2009/02/11/photogeek-week80/comment-page-1/#comment-1497 The_BigBueCat Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:45:06 +0000 http://photogeek.tv/Pages/?p=358#comment-1497 Oh man!!! That Skype .... (well, that's my claim, and I'm sticking to it!!) Oh man!!! That Skype …. (well, that’s my claim, and I’m sticking to it!!)

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