The great digital tv swindle!!

[moon]

But isnt the problem also with the tape systems that the footage is being recorded on ie DVcam, DVCpro etc etc. the compressions used on them result in a heavy loss of picture quality?

Its just really pissing me off right now as we keep being told that going digital will result in better picture quality because its just a binary code rather than waveform, however nobody mentions that the compressions used to deliver the pictures results in a fantastic loss of quality!!!!!!!!!!!!!

grrrrrr

Bring back 35mm and BetaSP!!!!!

 

[stdPikachu]

I think the BBC has the best bitrate, for BBC1 and 2 at least.

By my calculations, BBC 1 and 2 broadcast at almost DVD-standard quality - full PAL resolution approx. 2GB for 30 minutes is 5Mb/s. Their HD test signal is broadcast at some crazy quality, summat like 20Mb/s.

ITV, however, suck. I don't have access to my video box from here but they display at a much lower resolution than other channels, and at much lower bitrates.

Most users don't give a crap about quality, but HD does make it much more visible. Sky has been broadcasting horrifically compressed streams for years, I don't know how people put up with it in SDTV let alone on HD.

 

[chio]

well the difference in picture quality isn't justified by the bleedin' thousands of dollars of expense for each household.

Thousands of dollars? What rubbish. I paid twenty quid for a box from Dixons and didn't need to buy anything else.

 

[Kanda]

Thousands of dollars? What rubbish. I paid twenty quid for a box from Dixons and didn't need to buy anything else.

DC was talking about HDTV not just Digital TV.

 

[bigbry]

I thought 'in the future' we are supposed to be going away from TV transmitters - the future is TV through your phone socket and telephones through the air.

I was in one of the most rural parts of France last month and the TV pictures came through the phone connection - and they were 'cracking' quality.

Why aren't we getting our TV through the phone socket instead of spending loads of money on transmitters ?

 

[Kanda]

You don't think the upgrade to our telephone infrastructure will cost a bit more than transmitters?

 

[ChrisFilter]

Always seems alright quality to me Lucky me!