[TelstraClear] Core TV upgrade and picture improvement update

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#110105 12-Feb-2008 16:55

Just noticed TV1 and TV2 are 720X576 and looking sharper.

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#110162 12-Feb-2008 20:05

Back to 704 again - some testing going on...

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#110166 12-Feb-2008 20:31

TV1 and TV2 seem to be dropping out a lot tonight on digital - I assume this is a network issue?

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#110170 12-Feb-2008 20:37

sbiddle: TV1 and TV2 seem to be dropping out a lot tonight on digital - I assume this is a network issue?

I noticed the same thing.. and the better half was trying to watch her Shortland Street!!!.. was not good!

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#110213 12-Feb-2008 21:32

Yeah I noticed the same as well. We swapped over to the freeview sat signal after the boss complained about my crappy box... glad to hear others were having the problem... I told her it wasn't my fault since the signal was fine <phew>

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#110215 12-Feb-2008 21:33

Yes and the issues stopped when it went back to 704

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#110647 14-Feb-2008 17:42

TV1 and TV2 back to 720 again

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#110669 14-Feb-2008 19:34

But prime and the kids channels (playhouse, nic etc) havn't been upgraded yet.

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#110674 14-Feb-2008 19:44

And the issues are back again... so can we have the upgrade without the sound and picture breaking up please! Wife is getting very antsy

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#110684 14-Feb-2008 20:00

grrr channel 2 audio spikes...big square waves gonna kill my home theatre..as well as vid drops to black
not good

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#110691 14-Feb-2008 20:27

I see what you mean.
I don't watch much public tv, but my flatmate has decidd to attempt to watch TV 2 currently.
Spluttering sound and frequent picture loss.

Not their best work.

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#110699 14-Feb-2008 21:10

5:30 get home and notice on 720x576, PQ improvement / direct feed of TVNZ from avalon.
8:30 wife threatens to kill me if TV doesn't improve for ER, switch to DM off Satellite not Cable for TV2.
9:00 head to bed to watch rest of ER, swap back to Cable, back to old encoder as 704x576 for TV1&2.

Come on TCL, if the feed from TVNZ isn't of a good quality then why do you persist in swapping everyone in wgtn over to the new feed. I would expect the BER on your links to be somewhere around 20-50 as those sorts of artifact losses I see on a really rainy day off the sat when my dish was out... How hard is it to get a microwave link from Petone to Avalon working.. you could always run fibre, it's not like you're a telco

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#110706 14-Feb-2008 21:30

Not to be rude but you guys only have one woman threatening to kill you, I live in a flat with 3 of them :(

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#110709 14-Feb-2008 21:40

How hard is it to get a microwave link from Petone to Avalon working.. you could always run fibre, it's not like you're a telco

Maybe they're trying to run an IP feed over a cable modem direct. That'll explain the thing dropping out all the time with all the micro outages on the network! :-)

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#110767 15-Feb-2008 08:14

munchkin: Not to be rude but you guys only have one woman threatening to kill you, I live in a flat with 3 of them :(

Hey I have two daughters (3 & 20 months), and a third daughte on the way... Now all I need is my shotgun & rocking chair!

sbiddle: Maybe they're trying to run an IP feed over a cable modem direct. That'll explain the thing dropping out all the time with all the micro outages on the network! :-)

Ahh THAT must be it... however the artifacts don't last as long as the cable modem outages... so it must be some other unreliable connection or components in the Cable TV... Glad my phone and internet isn't on the same system... hey, wait a minute, it is... bugger :P

EDIT: And now they are playing Disney Channel (Hanna Montanna) on TV2 as well, plus the image is out of sync as well..

EDIT #2: Back to TV2 ~8:30pm... I recorded the switch over and will post a TS file "This channel is unavailable, please stand by" before is switched back to the normal TV2...

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