RE: Group's quiet tonight...

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Ah well ... it'll keep me going until $ky get their act sorted out.

 

Once they get ITV up there on the lineup then I'll just buy a £100 install and get the FTA channels only - the combination box with the HD recorder seems expensive when they're gonna be charging you yet another £10 a month t use the EPG service!

 

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 July 2001 11:50
To: ukha_d
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Group's quiet tonight...

Nope...its not just you. It is absolute crap.

 

Its the 56K MP3 version of a TV picture.

 

Because there are only 6 true channels allocated for the 6 Muxes they are cramming so many channels on one Mux that the bitrate is waaaayyyy too low :-((

 

Thats what really pisses me off about Digital TV.

 

It IS capable of perfect pictures with a decent bitrate .......or thousands of channels of worse than Analogue.

 

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 July 2001 11:33
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] Group's quiet tonight...

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@xxxxxxxSubject: 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 took 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 to 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.

 

James H  

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