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

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

No Keith ... you must be mistaken.

I distinctly heard Chris Smith on the radio on my way into work a couple of
months ago and he was saying just what an opportunity digital TV was for
the
British public and how much better everyones picture quality and reception
was going to be.

Are you telling me what he said wasn't right?

Hmmm ... I guess there must be some reason why our new digital system was
designed from the ground up to *EXCLUDE* all those horrible American ideas
such as "High Definition" and extendability ... pah ... who'd
want something
like that eh? I mean whatever next? They'll be wanting to go from 405 lines
to 625 soon and then I bet you those decadent pussies will want to add
colour too! I know ... lets scupper their plans ... let's design a system
that's pretty much obsolete from the start and then force everyone into it
by selling the analogue waveband.

Oh ... those "free" boxes to watch free to air broadcasts ...
yes, they're
free as long as you pay a subscription. Yes, I know it's not quite free but
it's nearly free isn't it? Oh yes ... you still have to pay your TV licence
... the actual definition of what it's for is getting pretty fuzzy now but
we still want you to pay it. Oh yes sir ... you can get your free box
without paying a subscription ... that'll be £400 sir.

Sir?

Sir!...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 June 2001 20:16
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] FW: [dvduk] New Sky boxes (DVDUK : OT)
>
>
> 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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