Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
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Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
They do both I'm afraid, many channels now broadcast 544x576 pixels, which is 3/4 of the proper SD resolution (720x576).
When Sky bought Virgin Media Television, the first thing they did was reduce the resolution of Living etc. |
Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
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Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
Personally I'm happy if they make SD worse. It will force all channels with any pretence of quality to move to HD or better.
On the rare occasion, now, I have to watch SD (normally when my wife is watching cookery), I just accept it's **** and ignore it. |
Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
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No place for SD in my house haha If someone has put on a SD movie channel, I can tell as soon as I walk into the room and switch it to the HD channel lol |
Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
Having replaced two TVs in the last two years I can say that some sets do a much better job than others of up-scaling the picture. On one of my sets the SD picture quality is almost as good as the HD picture quality on the other. It's still possible to tell the difference especially when viewing text on screen.
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Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
On my 37 inch Panasonic family members notice little difference between the excellent SD and HD picture quality. I put this down to very good upscaling of the Tivo and a high quality TV ( though it is several years old).
The problem with BBC 1 HD is that you do not get the local news. |
Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
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Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
They manage fine with BBC1 Scotland HD
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Otherwise it's getting costly with buying a new Slingbox and converters from what I can tell :( |
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Ofcom are to scrap the requirement for minimum standards in favour of letting the market decide what is best. They say that they don't expect TV companies to reduce the picture quality. Quote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/abouttheb...3-7963e8ec1225 |
Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
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Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
Had a good chat with a VM technician today who came to swap out my old TiVo which had failed.
He advised me he'd only fitted one V6, and that all the initial 10,000 that went out have been installed. He has been advised that the next batch won't be available until February in the East Midlands, so I wouldn't get too excited about the launch next week - seems there aren't warehouses full of V6s ready to install. He also noted that the idea is that the majority of these will be self-installs, and customers will be able to arrange delivery at a time convenient to them - could possibly involve a system where Yodel and VM link up and customers can book a delivery via Yodel. Nice bloke, to be fair, and seemed to know what he was talking about |
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