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<blockquote data-quote="Adam792" data-source="post: 1120066" data-attributes="member: 330868">IPTV (a proper multicast &quot;broadcast&quot; service via an ISP, rather than over the top unicast) does seem to be very popular and competitive in France.I've just experienced this staying in a flat in Strasbourg over the last week. There were some UHF and VHF antennas on the roof, which presumably date back to pre-DSO (UHF and VHF Band III antennas pointing at Strasbourg/Nordheim and a vertical UHF antenna pointing at Strasbourg/Port-du-Rhin), however something must have broken as the TV got no signal from the antenna socket except a very pixellated R7 (TF1 Séries Films etc). As the flat had a Freebox though, all the regular TNT channels and loads of extra &quot;basic package&quot; channels came through that via IP with no problem. I imagine the same applies to the other apartments in the building, so there's no push for the communal antenna service to be fixed!With a small indoor antenna I couldn't pick up French TNT at all, just the two DVB-T2 multiplexes from the ARD-SWR across the border (for some reason there was no signal for the ZDF ones)!The recording service on the Freebox seemed to be free as long as you plugged a USB stick or some other storage into the box, which had no hard disk of its own. The Sky Glass thing of not allowing recording unless subscribed to the relevant provider sounds ridiculous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Adam792, post: 1120066, member: 330868"] IPTV (a proper multicast "broadcast" service via an ISP, rather than over the top unicast) does seem to be very popular and competitive in France. I've just experienced this staying in a flat in Strasbourg over the last week. There were some UHF and VHF antennas on the roof, which presumably date back to pre-DSO (UHF and VHF Band III antennas pointing at Strasbourg/Nordheim and a vertical UHF antenna pointing at Strasbourg/Port-du-Rhin), however something must have broken as the TV got no signal from the antenna socket except a very pixellated R7 (TF1 Séries Films etc). As the flat had a Freebox though, all the regular TNT channels and loads of extra "basic package" channels came through that via IP with no problem. I imagine the same applies to the other apartments in the building, so there's no push for the communal antenna service to be fixed! With a small indoor antenna I couldn't pick up French TNT at all, just the two DVB-T2 multiplexes from the ARD-SWR across the border (for some reason there was no signal for the ZDF ones)! The recording service on the Freebox seemed to be free as long as you plugged a USB stick or some other storage into the box, which had no hard disk of its own. The Sky Glass thing of not allowing recording unless subscribed to the relevant provider sounds ridiculous. [/QUOTE]

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