RC 202 and AverMedia A16C H.264 support

[zhemaitis]

Hi, I tried to watch some DVB-T on WMC using the usuall antenna. I does find the channels, but I only get "Digital Sound Service" no visuals. The signal is H.264 - anyone know if AverMedia A16C Hybrid card is capable of decoding it? I tried their support, it's the usuall ping-pong type: "It's oem'd to Sony, go there", Sony hasn's replied yet, but will probably say, "go to AverMedia"

Thanks,

Jonas

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No visual in DVB-T H.264 reception. just sound (using XP WMC)

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[kee-lo_]

I don't think it supports H.264, that's HD Freeview.

Wow where are you to get that sort of service? In the UK it's just good old antenna 16:9 - we're lucky if we get over 5mbit/sec quality

[zhemaitis]

Thanks.. Let's see what Sony support says. I will have to find some creative ways to bypass this. I am in Lithuania, we have around 10 free MPEG4/H.264 channels - some kind of early adoption I guess..

[kee-lo_]

That's impressive, here you have to pay for everything HD, and it's not cheap either. Are the setup costs the big sting?

[zhemaitis]

Things are very cheap here, (the same as salaries) - that's why you have 200K Lithuanians in UK and Ireland:) In such a market as Lithuania things move very fast and somebody decided to get the newest and the coolest, however, people have a limited choice of STBs and HD TVs are still expensive. To get 20 channels (10 free) you need to sign a contract for two years and pay ~200 pounds upfront for those two years, then there are no monthly payments. Plus you still have to buy an STB or they can lease you one. If I just want the free channels, I do not need to pay anything, just install the 10$ antenna and have a H.264 decoder. That's what I am trying to figure out with my VAIO and Avermedia

[kee-lo_]

Sky with everything + HD is something like £60/month plus the initial £199 for Sky HD box.

[MattWilson]

Well the sky HD box used to cost £300 and there was only 11 HD channels!

I don't think we will have HD freeview for a very long time.

The digital switchover doesn't finish until 2011 anyway!

We are in the dark ages of technology in the UK.

Japan, Norway and Sweden have 100Mb broadband connects along fibre optics and you have a max 8Mb! (24Mb in Portsmouth - see Thalamus' thread)

[kee-lo_]

We are in the dark ages of technology in the UK.

I know, it's sad really.