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can you tell me how one can find out which tv1/tv2 shows are in HD (720p)? browsed tvnz.co.nz's listings ('tv guide') and NO shows are stated as HD. surely after all that there is one show? just one?
kind of a chicken and egg story. not much HD content (<5%) so one one buys hdtv sets so there are few products (set top boxes, integrated tuner tvs, pvrs), so not much hd content recorded or bought, so no one buys ...
but most kiwi i have known are just content with 21" crt tvs with bunny ears. serious! show them my 1080p blu ray and they go mmm is this the new batman show? mmm that's the joker, who plays the joker?
ALTRON: Anyone notice how the picture quality of the 7s was a lot more crisp on tv one compared to sky sport?
The PQ looks the same on TVNZ1 HD as it did on Sky, crap. I suspect that TVNZ was getting the Sky mpeg2 feed and looking at Sky Watch the 7s were not in HD on Sky which is a pity that it wasn't in HD on either channel..
Regards,
Old3eyes
RustyGonad:IMHO - given the amount of taxpayer funded dollars that have been wasted on this (advertising Freeview HD), this is a joke. Freeview simply wasn't ready for HD, still isn't, and we keep wondering when it will be. It has simply been a badly implemented ploy to try and match Sky...
sbiddle: Having said that I don't agree about other aspects - Freeview is nothing other than a replacement for the analogue network, something Freeview themselves seem to completely forget when they now start trying to compare themselves with Sky all the time.
RustyGonad: ..
A bit of info for those who constantly tout Freeview bitrates - Sky Sport HD is usually around 18-21Mb - quite a bit above Freeview (12-13Mb) - or so DVBViewer tells me... The picture quality via a HTPC from Sky Sport HD beats anything I've seen from Freeview outside of the Olympics on One - you are certainly never left wondering if its in HD...
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lchiu7:RustyGonad: ..
A bit of info for those who constantly tout Freeview bitrates - Sky Sport HD is usually around 18-21Mb - quite a bit above Freeview (12-13Mb) - or so DVBViewer tells me... The picture quality via a HTPC from Sky Sport HD beats anything I've seen from Freeview outside of the Olympics on One - you are certainly never left wondering if its in HD...
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I could be wrong but I thought Sky's HD over satellite was MPEG2 whereas FreeviewHD is H.264. That would account for the difference in bit rates. Can't make a comment on the quality of Sky's HD but would agree, the Olympics was outstanding, even more so given how much compression and transmission processing had to occur to get the picture to us.
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lchiu7:Can't argue with the fact that SkyHD has more HD content than Freeview. Freeview has so little HD content it's laughable
Especially what TVNZs offering are. Nearly zero..
Regards,
Old3eyes
As I mentioned the bandwidth numbers were as reported by DVBViewer, all numbers quoted are as such.
This varies per channel ie Movies is lower, around 8-9 for an SD Movie, and around 12-16 for a HD movies (average). Sport is much higher averaging 18ish, but during the domestic cricket it often reached 21.
I can't comment how accurate these numbers are out of DVBViewer ie I don't know whether it reports the entire TS or not etc. It does vary per channel within the same Transport Stream so I'm assuming its a baseline number (once again not sure of its accurate) per channel.
The same program reports Freeview HD at around 12-13, so to the best of my knowledge they should provide a baseline comparison, even if not entirely accurate.
old3eyes:lchiu7:Can't argue with the fact that SkyHD has more HD content than Freeview. Freeview has so little HD content it's laughable
Especially what TVNZs offering are. Nearly zero..
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