Re: Group's quiet tonight...

[mark@xxxxxxx]

I didn't get far with installing mine last night but on previous
occasions I have seen it - it is indeed "shite" compared t  Sky.

Remember seeing a football pitch move like it was a sea.

M.



--- In ukha_d@y..., "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@v...>
wrote:
> Is it just me or is the actual picture quality of OnDigital
absolute shite?
>
> It just seems soft and squidgy - the only half-decent channels
being the FTA
> BBC1/BBC2...
>
> ...I find it amusing when watching - say - Star Trek Next Gen on
Sky One
> that when you get scene cuts that you still have shadowy
"ghosts"
of the
> actors from the previous scenes still visible. Watching
the "blockies" on
> some of the movie channels is quite scary and is reminicent of some
of the
> very first MPEG encoding I did seven years ago at my last company!
>
> Is this the "better quality digital future" that I heard
Chris
Smith banging
> on about earlier this year ... it's scarey t  think that it is!
>
> Phil
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: James Hoye [mailto:james.hoye@xxxxxxx...]
>   Sent: 26 July 2001 10:34
>   To: ukha_d@y...
>   Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Group's quiet tonight...
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>     Didn't think you could do that with On Dogital  It thought if
you
> cancelled subscription then they t ok the box back?
>
>     I own my own box - I bought it for 199 when then were 'giving
them away'
> at the launch.  In due course I got a cheque back for 199.  Only
condition
> was (I think) that I had t  subscribe for a minimum of 1 year.  A
few weeks
> after that promotion they changed all the terms - they obviously
realised
> that after a year if everyone stopped subscribing they'd have no
revenue,
> and would have 'lost' thousands and thousands of expensive boxes.
>
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