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waler74 · 06-05-2008, 12:56

Not meaning to add fuel to this fire here, but perhaps there's other reasons for not adding new HD channels, yet.

Anyone tried recording something from BBC-HD, while recording another SD channel and watching a 3rd? The STB gets quite sluggish, and I've observed frame and sound skips.

Also, if you record from BBC-HD, the playback is noticeably grainy on certain programs - I guess an unavoidable compression artefact. Don't know if MP4 would give superior results than MP2. Even watching things in realtime, you can see ghosting (even National Treasure had it this passed weekend)

Would you really want more HD, if it resulted in you not being able to record things successfully? Suppose it would give everyone something else to grumble about...

So perhaps we won't see anything new until after the availability of the rumoured updated V+ STB...

06-05-2008, 12:56	#82
waler74 cf.member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 9	Re: No More HD - Confirmed By VM Not meaning to add fuel to this fire here, but perhaps there's other reasons for not adding new HD channels, yet. Anyone tried recording something from BBC-HD, while recording another SD channel and watching a 3rd? The STB gets quite sluggish, and I've observed frame and sound skips. Also, if you record from BBC-HD, the playback is noticeably grainy on certain programs - I guess an unavoidable compression artefact. Don't know if MP4 would give superior results than MP2. Even watching things in realtime, you can see ghosting (even National Treasure had it this passed weekend) Would you really want more HD, if it resulted in you not being able to record things successfully? Suppose it would give everyone something else to grumble about... So perhaps we won't see anything new until after the availability of the rumoured updated V+ STB...