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Satellite Freeview? It's been fine on my Topfield. Location shouldn't matter as long is you're in NZ. What's your signal level and quality like? Picture breaking up any?
richms: It wouldnt suprise me if they have done something to the sound on analog to make it worse then the crap thats coming thru dvb-t at the moment so people dont feel they are being ripped off.
Same thing happened in the states when they started HD audio on radio stations, they started feeding the analog off the encoded and decoded data so that it didnt sound better then low bitrate aac, which FM should do, and nicam is better then FM by quire a bit.
Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.
richms: Dropping the rate is just stupid, they should just leave the HE off since the rates are high enough to not be helped by it. Really, what is coming out of whatever I use to decode it is worse then a 32k radio stream off the net. I dont have an official settop to compare to since they are more expensive then a HTPC can be done for, I dont think I will ever have one.
The only MP2 I have to compare it against is a sky feed at a different place on different gear so it cant really be compared, but there are many artifacts on the sky audio, vs the just poor sound on dvb-t I get at home.
Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.
dabade:
SHAME ON YOU FREEVIEW!!
Just to further this discussion a little, I noticed when I set up freeview DVB-T here in Hamilton that the audio was shocking. I assumd it was my decoding, but today I had a look. The TVNZ stations are broadcasting in AAC, but with a pathetic 50-60 Kbps. I kid you not, My god, a 7Mbit h.264 video, and add telephone quality audio? - what are they thinking! Maybe those that noticed a drop in analog broadcast audio are actually receiving a analog rebroadcast of the digital stream.
Incidentally, TV3 was at 128Kbit (acceptable, for a 2 channel AAC stream), and c4 had a slightly lower video bandwidth (6mbit) but beefed up the audio to 130-150 Kbit AAC (good for them, being a music channel!).
At any rate - these are all far from DVD's at 384kbit (even if it is ac3 5.1). SHame on you tvnz/kordia/freeview, wowing us with beautiful HD, and then backstabbing us with crap audio.
Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.
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