PissCloud
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Post by PissCloud on Feb 18, 2008 19:16:15 GMT
I don't know if it's their ariels that need adjusting, but whenever I've seen someone's Sky picture it's been a bit crap. Eps things like football / fast action. It's all blocky. Is it always like that?
Freeviews always seem top quality. Least mine is (when there's not a bloody hurricane).
Does anyone know what kind of transmission they both do - is it like mpeg 2, mpeg 4 or nothing like that at all.
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Post by __l__n on Feb 18, 2008 20:09:09 GMT
You'd THINK I'd know about how it's broadcast, but I don't. Ask me some questions about internet television broadcasting though. Ask me!
The blockiness is usually down to interference, though. Weather, trees or massive tower blocks being constructed around the corner from your house can cause this (I'm living through the last one right now). Freeview in your case will likely not suffer the same problem since it'll point at a TV mast and not a satellite -- they could, quite possibly, be pointing in completely different directions and so not subject to the same interference.
Sigh. I remember when I used to post on here about GIRLS.
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PissCloud
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Post by PissCloud on Feb 19, 2008 16:40:09 GMT
What's good for getting foregin (European/American/Japanese) internet telly on Windows (for free)?
I saw a video of a thing called MythTV but I think it was for Linux only.
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Post by Golden Dragoon on Feb 20, 2008 20:13:24 GMT
mpeg 2 is the standard used by both sky and freeview (though they are not interchangeable, they use slightly different encoding, but are still mostly the same and still come under the mpeg 2 standard)
The thing is that currently broadcasters haven't got many channels on freeview as it is regulated, so the average bit rate tends to be higher, whereas on sky the broadcasters don't pay for a channel to be broadcast as such, they pay for the bandwidth that the channels they produce use up, so if they can reduce the av. bit rate by 10% on four channels, they may be able to squeeze another channel in their bandwidth allowance.
That is why good sky channels (pretty much any of the main sky channels, and the normal terrestrial channels on sky, and discovery ect..) look much better than freeview as they have higher bit rates, but the second rate channels, or those where the broadcaster has made the decision of quantity over quality can look much worse due to the lower bit rate.
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