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neilwilkes · 8th January 2010

Happens all the time with UK Sky+ HD dish setup.
The quality on offer is frankly piss-poor, and to call it HD is a triumph of marketing over reality - it is little better than SD in an HD wrapper.
The non-"HD" channels vary wildly in quality, mainly (I suspect) caused by the fact that a digital multiplex only has a finite amount of bitrate available - all those +1 channels have to get their bits from somewhere, and it comes from everything else.

The quality of most Digital TV is terrible.

8th January 2010	#10
neilwilkes Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2005 Location: London, England Posts: 930	Happens all the time with UK Sky+ HD dish setup. The quality on offer is frankly piss-poor, and to call it HD is a triumph of marketing over reality - it is little better than SD in an HD wrapper. The non-"HD" channels vary wildly in quality, mainly (I suspect) caused by the fact that a digital multiplex only has a finite amount of bitrate available - all those +1 channels have to get their bits from somewhere, and it comes from everything else. The quality of most Digital TV is terrible. __________________ Mixing,Mastering & Post Production Surround Specialists (all formats) Blu-Ray (Pure Audio Blu Ray & HDMV authoring) DVD-Audio/DVD-Video Authoring (Music, Film & TV)