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#1282625 14-Apr-2015 08:18

the quality of these leaked episodes make them barely watchable,

so I have been informed by annonymous souls

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#1282630 14-Apr-2015 08:28

SirHumphreyAppleby:
JeremyNzl: So did sky have this ready for delivery at 1pm ,
Or has this been a marketing ploy to pretend they are up with the play
Meaning they were always going to screen at 8.30pm

I believe this was a genuine technical glitch, rather than a "Rowan Atkinson Live (And Uncensored)" type of deception.

JeremyNzl - No, Sky would not have had the product ready for delivery at 1pm. This was likely a global simulcast from HBO that Sky would have been offering. What that means is that HBO broadcast the stream (at precisely the same time as they broadcast it to their domestic customers in the US) and Sky receive that stream (usually via satellite ingest) and re-broadcast it to their subscribers.

Almost exactly like a live feed from a sporting event.

The problem (as I understand it) was that HBO f$%^&d up the transmission so Sky never received the live stream and accordingly could not meet it's advertised schedule.

So - entirely out of their hands, but obviously they have to wear it.

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#1282632 14-Apr-2015 08:29

in that case why did they need to send copies round the world? just simulcast

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#1282679 14-Apr-2015 09:09

joker97: in that case why did they need to send copies round the world? just simulcast

The advance copies will likely have been sent out for translation/sub-title work. Also, to the press so that they can get their reviews of the Episodes online as soon as it has aired.

Normally, these copies will only be in standard def...

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#1282684 14-Apr-2015 09:13

on second thoughts, I don't think SD leaks are anything major. think of cinema cam copies of blockbusters

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#1282692 14-Apr-2015 09:29

joker97: on second thoughts, I don't think SD leaks are anything major. think of cinema cam copies of blockbusters

I disagree. Up until this season, we'd been getting our GOT fix via SOHO. As I consider having to pay an additional $10 per month just to get HD an absolute rort, we'd been watching it in SD. I'm probably not alone in this.

Thankfully this season we have HBO Now to use, and we were able to view the season 5 premiere in HD for 75% of the time (with it downgrading to SD at times), and without the SOHO watermark littering the bottom right of the screen/

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#1282695 14-Apr-2015 09:32

the idiots that watched these blurry rubbishy versions now have 4 weeks to wait until episode 5!!

I enjoy my viewing in 1080p with surround sound.

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#1282706 14-Apr-2015 09:37

6FIEND:
The problem (as I understand it) was that HBO f$%^&d up the transmission so Sky never received the live stream and accordingly could not meet it's advertised schedule.

So - entirely out of their hands, but obviously they have to wear it.

I was sitting and waiting at 1pm. The transmission did start, there was maybe a minute of video, then coloured vertical bars for a second or two, then the oops message.

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#1282866 14-Apr-2015 12:30

Watched at 8:30 via Neon going to get SOHO once the trial is finished as there are quite a few good shows on that for $10 more a month.

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#1282898 14-Apr-2015 13:02

First of all I don't watch GoT and don't have Sky but I was intrigued in a comment made earlier in this thread.

Does Sky have to do frame-rate conversion of a live stream from HBO so they can broadcast here?

I ask this because I recently was listening to a Podcast about how NBC broadcasts the Olympics when they are held outside the US. They use an organisation called Olympic Broadcasting Services and augment their feed with extra trucks they hire locally. This was easy they said in London when it was easy to rent Outside Broadcast vans.

All production services are done in the local country's TV standard (which for the UK would have been 1080i/50 presumably) and frame-rate conversion to US HD standards only done when the signal was sent out via satellite to the US.

So I presume if HBO's feed was in a US HD standard (1080i/60?) the Sky would have had to do frame-rate conversion to broadcast here?

An an interesting aside, NBC said they had a staff of 2500(!) for the last winter Olympics held in Russia!

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#1282910 14-Apr-2015 13:10

I'm sure there will be some form of transcoding happening...

At the very least, they "need" to overlay the ugly SoHo watermark and incredibly annoying promo adverts on top of the raw feed.

>:-(

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