Woeful ignorance here - but is Singapore headed down our DVB-T path - but just a few months ahead ?

From what I can see, they are rolling out a H.264/AVC (MPEG4) DVB-T service - although they choose to use 1080i.

I don't know nearly enough to guess if our choice of 720p will preclude common DTBs - or if there are other parameters which 'specialise' our Freeview service. (I believe I understand why we've chosen 720p and I'm not questioning that decision.)

Who's using this format now ? I believe Norway is and that those planning or thinking about it include Germany, Korea, HK, Russia, Ukraine & Lithuania. But I don't know if they are just similar - or identical - in specification to what we shall have ?

I find it confusing that the DVB-T 'standard' includes both MPEG2 and H.264 and that the compression used is seldom qualified when saying that a service uses 'the standard DVB-T'. Possibly this is a temporary aberation and it will become the norm to distinguish the compression used. (I think back to USB and USB2 in USB2's early days - before people insisted on designating the lesser version as USB1.1).

Anyone who can straighten me out ?

Refs: www.dvb.org/(RoxenUserID=6336166e4501b5a52e3fb2fccf0e9fc9)/news_events/press_releases/press_releases/DVB_pr159%20BCA%202007%20Final.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaCorp_TV_HD5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T