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24-11-2016, 00:32

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Originally Posted by Inactive Digital

Several broadcasters (eg Sky's entertainment channels) have also reduced their SD resolution over the years, which makes the difference even bigger

You can't surely, you could reduce the bit rate...an SD picture is a fixed size isn't it?

Inactive Digital · 24-11-2016, 05:44

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.

cj136uk · 24-11-2016, 08:26

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Originally Posted by Inactive Digital

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.

As I understand it Ofcom and the BBC have looked into the technical standards, what people can actually see etc etc. This isn't noticiable by many and newer TVs have settings which, I believe, work with this standard. It looks like channel's 1-5 will follow with the main channels and the sister channels.

Kabaal · 24-11-2016, 09:07

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Originally Posted by cj136uk

As I understand it Ofcom and the BBC have looked into the technical standards, what people can actually see etc etc. This isn't noticiable by many and newer TVs have settings which, I believe, work with this standard. It looks like channel's 1-5 will follow with the main channels and the sister channels.

When was that? 10 years ago most people were rocking 28" TV's and DVD players, nowadays you can get cheap 65" TVs from the likes of hisense for under a grand. What people can notice is much different today than it was yesterday.

cj136uk · 24-11-2016, 10:10

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Originally Posted by Kabaal

When was that? 10 years ago most people were rocking 28" TV's and DVD players, nowadays you can get cheap 65" TVs from the likes of hisense for under a grand. What people can notice is much different today than it was yesterday.

I don't disagree although the experts think otherwise

Jong1 · 24-11-2016, 10:26

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.

Ultimate.Conj · 24-11-2016, 10:33

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Originally Posted by Jong1

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.

That's terrible mate, you shouldn't put up with that

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

heavyside · 24-11-2016, 11:37

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.

oliver1948uk · 24-11-2016, 14:59

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.

cj136uk · 24-11-2016, 15:02

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Originally Posted by oliver1948uk

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.

Hd bbc1 expensive infrastructure needdd for little airtime

paultrademark · 24-11-2016, 15:17

They manage fine with BBC1 Scotland HD

trickytree · 24-11-2016, 15:22

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Originally Posted by carbon60

It doesn't, you'd need the Slingbox 500 for that, however the 500 didn't support HDCP so it wouldn't work on some channels. I don't think it was ever released in the UK.

I've had to do:

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TiVo -> HDMI Splitter -> Output 1 to TV
                      -> Output 2 to HDFury then Component to Slingbox Pro HD

I think I may move my 1Tb TiVo to the bedroom along with the Slingbox and try and hope that works for a while longer yet and get the V6 as the main box downstairs.

Otherwise it's getting costly with buying a new Slingbox and converters from what I can tell

RichardCoulter · 24-11-2016, 15:34

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Originally Posted by OhReally

You can't surely, you could reduce the bit rate...an SD picture is a fixed size isn't it?

http://www.a516digital.com/2016/11/o...ical-code.html

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.

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Originally Posted by paultrademark

They manage fine with BBC1 Scotland HD

The BBC nations have been done, the BBC intend to convert the 15 regions to HD over one to two years from 2017.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/abouttheb...3-7963e8ec1225

Pbryanw · 24-11-2016, 23:42

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

The BBC nations have been done, the BBC intend to convert the 15 regions to HD over one to two years from 2017.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/abouttheb...3-7963e8ec1225

Yes, here's to finally getting Look North in HD by 2017. Peter Levy in High Definition, and Keeley Donovan!

(Now back to the topic at hand

)

clayts · 25-11-2016, 17:56

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