RE: FW: [dvduk] New Sky boxes (DVDUK : OT)

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Have you noticed the artifacts creaping into some of the SKY channels
recently as they cram more channels on the same number of transponders
thereby reducing the bit rate.

I was watching Discovery the other night and a truck crossed a bridge in
about 5 or 6 noticable steps rather than smooth movement. Have also seen
the
picture refreshing on other channels particularly when there is a chop shot
from one camera to another.

Maybe they hope that Composite especially over UHF will mask some of this.

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 June 2001 20:10
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] FW: [dvduk] New Sky boxes (DVDUK : OT)
>
>
>
> > Well, gee, S-video is a US standard, here we use SCART. its
> only recently
> > that sets have started to come with NTSC capability, and S-video.
>
> Is S-Video a "US" standard? I seem to think it's been around
for a long
> time. I have a couple of older TV sets that have s-video capability
but
> don't have a hope of displaying NTSC.
>
> S-Video and SCART are completely different things though - S-Video,
like
> composite and RGB is a standard for the transmission of video
> signals. SCART
> is a connector, just like mini-DIN and phono.
>
> I think that the ommission of S-Video as an output format from a
> $ky box is
> almost as stupid as the ommission of an SPDIF output from the spec too
(I
> believe that Nokia did include an SPDIF output but that's about it)
for an
> emerging digital format to exclude a commonly available video format
(and
> the best quality routeable format for most of us) and any form of
multi
> channel audio is frightening.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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