Actually I am not that a news and gadget freak, but today I got very curios about what is going to be the future of free television like, so I decided to "test" the cheapest DVBT receiver on the market, as there has been a start today for this kind of service in the region. If you don't know what DVBT is than I must recommend you a visit to the DigitalFernsehen website or a company's portal, the DVBT Portal from Technisat (both in german). But I bought a cheaper one for 69 EUR from STRONG. This decision I took because I set up my sat-dish onto Sirius for some Romanian channels and I didn't had anymore germans. At least not more than a few.

The result is quite surprising. 19 channels (23 from April 2005) in not brilliant, but good quality (some visible MPEG artifacts seen). Free to get with a small 30 cm stick antenna. In my opinion it is a go for it instead of the cable. I mean on cable you pay around 18 Euro/month and you get what, 24 channels. From these you can cut out MDR, NDR, BR, WDR and other R's... I hope it is going to boost some competiont 'cause should I say that even in Bucharest there are 45-56 channels on the cable? With 0 competition either...