[jhalphen]

Hi Andy,

No hue control on DVB-T reception, but most modern LCD sets allow you to choose the Color Temperature of reference White. On consumer products it's labelled as 3 easy to understand settings Cool (7500°K) - Normal (6500°K)-Warm (3500°K).

DVT-T TVs with inbuilt tuner, never go through PAL: the MPEG2 stream (SD) or MPEG4 (HD) is directly decoded to primary components. If you purchase a DVB-T adapter which is our Euro-equivalent to your ATSC boxes, any Euro-TV produced in the last 30 years has a SCART connector, so the vintage set is driven in RGB. This has also the added advantage of allowed Teletext & inlaid EPG (Electronic Program Guide) as there is also a Fast Switch pin on SCART.

So you see, PAL is only used for TVs without SCART, the decoded digital stream being re-modulated onto a PAL B/G UHF carrier.

Hope this sheds a bit of light on current Euro-TV. Depending on countries, we will retire analogue between 2010-2012.

Pictures of a Rube-Goldberg device:
A Sony KV-1340DF, 12" Trinitron, France L standard only, purchased 1976, my first color TV. Here working with a DVB-T adapter or Sky Digital Sat TV, PAL out, PAL to SECAM transcoder (with the all-important "Bottles") TV modified to Monitor status. Had a Hot chassis so i built a series-regulated power supply to substitute the original PCB. I did that 25 years ago, to day i would have used a video-bandwith optocoupler.

Picture quality is still very good considering all the conversions...
And BTW, the CRT comes on to full brightness in 8 seconds in spite of its 33 years, a tribute to CRT technologies of the late 70s.

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France