Re: Sky HD Site

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Harris wrote:
> Does anyone do 1080p?
>
> The bandwith requirements on 1080p are immense and I don't know
anywhere
> that is broadcasting in 1080p ... 1080i is as good as you'll get and
720p
> has been accepted as the European HiDef standard as far as I know.

Loads of displays do it.

1080p means that you have no de-interlace required, and thats the
shortcoming in
most displays. Add to that the many issues with having a subsampled chroma
channel on an interlaced source and you have plenty of room for errors -
Some
DVD players still dont get it right which is scary.

Its a shame that the HD products are still based on mpeg2 - a well overdue
for
replacement codec, and a fixed framerate. There is more then enough CPU in
any
settop box these days to interlace content and do the 3:2 pulldown or 48 to
50
field conversion depending on what you are displaying on.


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