Entertainment Could Freeview get more channels? Could Freeview get more channels? |
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| Written by Rene Millman | |||||
| Wednesday, 21 November 2007 | |||||
Page 2 of 3 Of course, the biggest step-change would be changing the coding of the broadcast from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4,
which is a much more efficient algorithm and would allow nearly twice
as many standard definition channels than is currently available.
On the horizon is a new European transmission standard called DVB-T2
(which we assume has been sent back from the future to save Sarah
Connor). This could increase capacity by another 30 per cent. |
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