SatelliteGuys.US DishNetwork Uplink Discussion - Week Ending 06/23/2007
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I can't say much... but I can say this...
Any loss of PQ is temporary. Dish is working to provide the best PQ anywhere.
Thats all I can say about that.
This makes me fine with a temp PQ loss. As long as their goal is to improve it or make it the best they can. This time of day most wont notice.
Time of day? The reduction in quality is 24/7 until they move the channels again.
I took temporary as right now, which now that I think about it isnt going to be the case and youre right.
As long as temp is 2 mo's I guess it isnt the end of the world.
It could be that "temporary" means until they turn them into MPEG-4 channels. I hope not, though. Making these channels look worse is not the way to get people to sign on for the bigger HD package.
If anything they should be making these channels look as good as possible, to get people excited about getting more of the same (which might be bait and switch, so maybe not...)
How long does the mpeg4 conversion take? I took Scotts post of "temporary" as not too long. But thats just my take.
I agree, that a prolonged pq decline is bad, people will start getting angry.
I'm sorry, but am I reading it correctly that Showtime on 9430 is coming through at a full resolution of 1920x1080i and at 16MBs while Showtime on 9460 is coming through at 1440x1080i at 17.4MBs? I didn't think that there were any channels coming through at 1920x1080i.
Interesting. Now I'll have to take a look at those two when I go home.
There are some MPEG 2 channels coming in at full res yes. It has always bee like that. It seems as of Recent only MPEG4 programming is HD Lite. Untill this switch around. The 16MBs is not the true bitrate. The real bitrate is around half of that. The 16mbs you see is the processing rate of the pc that the sample was created on.
Yes, DiscoveryHD, ShoHD, HBOHD, PPVHD, and TNTHD were 1920x1080i up until a few days ago.
Looks like the only 1920x1080i left is on 148W.
Everything is now 1440x1080i except for the VOOMS. I suspect they will go to 1440x1080i in August.
I think E* will be adding more HD real soon, because if they don't Cablevision will be the HD leader come June 28th with 40 HD channel according to their press release.
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If your talking about 1440 vs 1980, I just wonder if you can actually "see" a difference. I know its the point of it that matters, plus Im not disagreeing with you, just wondering myself.
I think E* will be adding more HD real soon, because if they don't Cablevision will be the HD leader come June 28th with 40 HD channel according to their press release.
This is true.
Well with 1 free TP on 110, and soon to have 2 free VOOM TPs they could add 15-18 new HD channels if they wanted to do so...
If the display you're using is capable of full 1920x1080 resolution AND you're sitting close enough to it, yes. Otherwise, no. I would venture to say 90%+ viewers do not fulfill both of those qualifications...yet. As more people purchase large 1080p displays we may see that change.
Dont know if you guys saw the announcement, but HBO will go mpeg4 in 2008 and REQUIRE providers to boradcast the full bitrate of 8mbps. 8 seems low.
You shouldn't notice on a 720p display.
8mbps isn't low for MPEG4. Comparing 8mbps to the current MPEG4 bit rates on national HD, that's a pretty good number.
Thats right, mpeg4 needs 8-10 right and mpeg2 is almost double.
Is there a advantage to 1440 over 1920? Does it allow them more bandwidth?
Is there a advantage to 1440 over 1920? Does it allow them more bandwidth?
