Two thumbs up for Equator HD
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Equator Channel is Hot
Equator Cnannel is hot. I love it we get to see the world in HD. In one week we have been to Venice, Provence , Cambodia, Australia, and many more exotic locals. Watching on my Mitsubishi 65 inch Diamond, with dual link DVI, rocks. It is like being there without the hassle.. Thanks Voom. I always wanted the travel channel in HD , now we have Equator, the next best thing
Equator Cnannel is hot. I love it we get to see the world in HD. In one week we have been to Venice, Provence , Cambodia, Australia, and many more exotic locals. Watching on my Mitsubishi 65 inch Diamond, with dual link DVI, rocks. It is like being there without the hassle.. Thanks Voom. I always wanted the travel channel in HD , now we have Equator, the next best thing
calikarim said:
I agree with you. Except.... "the next best thing"?
Equator HD is way better! :up Travel channel is a lot of marketing hype. And what about all those commercials?Equator HD, Discovery HD, and Gallery HD are my favorites on VOOM. Then the premium HD channels. Then Cinema 10. I wish I could get PBS HD, but we don't get any OTA here. :river
Nice channel, but please pass on the old axiom "Variety is the spice of life" to a friends in the prog. dept.-Thank You.Conjuror said:
If VOOM can keep the new destinations coming this channel could become my favorite as well. The "Eye Over..." series is spectacular.
PLease, no more national geographic channels. Enough already. Give us some skin! and sports worth watching!
Equator HD is a nice channel, but they seem to have a setup problem of some sort that causes loads of "pixel dancing" all over the screen. It's sort of like looking through a screen wire and moving your head from side to side. From talking to someone else, they said this is probably being caused by the following:
They are not bandwidth limiting the signal to less than 1/2 the pixal rate like they should. That causes beating between the two. In other words they are not sampling at or above the Nyquist rate.
This explains it: http://umech.mit.edu/weiss/PDFfiles/lectures/lec20nm.pdf
They appear to sampling below the Nyquist rate.
They are not bandwidth limiting the signal to less than 1/2 the pixal rate like they should. That causes beating between the two. In other words they are not sampling at or above the Nyquist rate.
This explains it: http://umech.mit.edu/weiss/PDFfiles/lectures/lec20nm.pdf
They appear to sampling below the Nyquist rate.
I think thats what I was trying to say when I said it looked good but a little grainy. nice technical explaination.seandudley said:
seandudley said:
Sean,
Has this problem been reported to Wilt Hindenbrand (Yahoo Group)? If not, can you re-post this message over there?
seandudley said:
Yah i agree. It does seems to be a little bit grainy at times though I do Love Equator HD. Let's hope they can fix it...
Yes, they both have it and, yes, it is better, beyond a shadow of a doubt, on Dish Network.DBENE said:
Sean, good explanation of Pixel Dancing. I tuned in EquatorHD 3 times today and it's on every show, though it's worse on some. Painting the Country is pretty good but still exhibits the dancing pixels. I hope Wilt can pinpoint it, fix it and I also hope they add new programming soon.
