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Picture quality on Sky Digital

  • 17-06-2006 11:23am
    #1
    Scottish paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭


    Just thought some of you may be interested in this website which shows the bitrate for each channel on Sky. No suprise that the ITV rate is so low, but for the RTE knockers RTE 2 is one of the highest!:)
    http://www.linowsat.de/0282/all/0282.shtml


Comments

  • #2
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    it is no secret that RTÉ have one of the highest bit rates. the picture quality is much better than a lot of other channels


  • #3
    3rdDegree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭3rdDegree


    Just shows the ITV channels?


  • #4
    adeypius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭adeypius


    scroll down ;)


  • #5
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,152 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    RTE having a "massive" 5 channels and 4 radio stations as opposed to 6 to 10 channels on their transponder is one of the main reasons their rate is relatively high.

    ITVs data streams also eat away at the available bitrate, whereas RTE have teletext (256K-ish I think) on 4 of the 5 channels on their transponder, and no seperate subtitle or data streams.


  • #6
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,445 ✭✭✭✭watty


    arn't DWTV, TV5 and TVEi on the "Irish" transponder?


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  • #7
    Valentia
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    It's obvious watching the World Cup that RTE 2 has the best picture. ITV is practically unwatchable.


  • #8
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,152 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Only DW these days. TV5 and TVEi moved to other uplinks a while back, TVEi first then TV5.


  • #9
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    MYOB wrote:
    RTE having a "massive" 5 channels and 4 radio stations

    isnt that recommended though? ITV put too many channels onto their transponders


  • #10
    Sparky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,227 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Ah RTE is the best for the world cup picture.
    I switched to ITV the other day and it was really sh1t, and the fact that Im using an LCD makes it more noticable.


  • #11
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,152 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    It is, thats why I had the "" around massive. RTE have one of the lowest loadings on a transponder on the entire constellation.


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  • #12
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,445 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Well 544 x 576 will look terribel on an LCD anyway. RTE & BBC use 720 x 576.

    In theory about 7 channels should be still good , or 8 maybe. Nearly twice this if you use MPEG4 for ordinary definition. 3 or 4 HD Channels in MPEG4. In MPEG2 ONE HD channel needs a whole transponder!


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