I watched a chick-flick on Sky last night (Mon. 1st June), called "Ever After" and it was listed as HD. However - I'm no expert - but it didn't look HD to me. In fact, it looked like Sky took an SD product and ran it through a high end upscaler to get their mildly chrisper 1080i content and decided to call that HD.
What are other people's expereinces with HD movies? Personally I find newer film quite acceptable with being given the HD content brand, however many older films don't seem to come up to standard.
Where does Sky get their HD content from? Does anyone know?
I would be interested in other customers thoughts.
Programmes and movies have to be recorded in the HDTV format so that viewers can benefit from the imporved experiance of HD(This applies to old movies and programs) however all the new content which is coming thru is already in HD. as to you question as to where SKy gets their content from? i think SKY TV does the encoding themselves....afteral they are a global TV network, cheers
I watched a chick-flick on Sky last night (Mon. 1st June), called "Ever After" and it was listed as HD. However - I'm no expert - but it didn't look HD to me. In fact, it looked like Sky took an SD product and ran it through a high end upscaler to get their mildly chrisper 1080i content and decided to call that HD.
What are other people's expereinces with HD movies? Personally I find newer film quite acceptable with being given the HD content brand, however many older films don't seem to come up to standard.
Where does Sky get their HD content from? Does anyone know?
I would be interested in other customers thoughts.
Cheers, BuckoNZ
It might of been listed as HD but probably wasn't, the listings aren't reliable I've found either in the EPG or Skywatch. You can generally tell as soon as you view it whether it is or not.
I suppose I'm approaching this from a 'Commerse Commission' perspective. I don't believe that Sky should be advising that a movie (or any content for that matter) is HD quality, when clearly it is not. This is just false and frankly unlawful.
I reveived the following response from SKY on this:
*** Response (SKY Tech Team) *** 09/06/2009 08.46 AM ***
All our HD programmes are transmitted in 1080i. In some cases, movies are upscaled from SD to HD due to their age. Upscaling is done to 1080i. So all SKY programming is 1080i.
As an industry standard anything above 576i is considered HD. For example TV1 & TV2 are 720p and are still HD.
In some countries, such as Australia, the 576p resolution standard is technically considered High Definition and was in use by the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS TV) and was previously used by the Seven Network, which has recently begun 1080i broadcasts.
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