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Availability of HD in Dublin?

  • 13-09-2006 10:20am
    #1
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi -

    What HD cable services are available in Dublin? Sky's page at:

    http://shop.sky.com/hd

    is heavy on graphics and woowoo background music, but light on whether it's available in dublin and lighter again on what's actually being shown in HD.

    Any advice?


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


    no High Definition services via cable, only satellite

    Sky HD is not available on cable


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Satellite HD from 28.2E has
    Discovery, Nat Geo, Sky Movies, Sky Sport, Artsworld, Sky1

    Free BBC HD trial.

    These channels in most cases are different content from the standard versions. Sky1 has little true HD content. BBC seems to be 3 to 5 hrs programming a day, the rest of the time demo loops.

    Artsworld is a separate subscription channel.

    Pace or Humax HD receiver and true HD TV (not just "HD ready") for BBC Trial or Sky HD subscription for BBC trial and the pay channels.

    Maybe next year there will be more content.


  • #4
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Thanks for the reply. From this, I assume that the cheapest way of getting an HD signal to my Sony KDL-32V2000 is with Sky HD, for which I need Sky to flog me a dish + settop (set-side?) box, giving me discovery, NG, sky movies/sport, sky 1 and the bbc trial.

    > not just "HD ready"

    The 32V2000 is labelled as "hd ready", so is your warning because the HD signal is provided at 1920 x 1080 and needs to be downsampled to the telly's pixel resolution of 1366 x 768? Or are there issues that I need to be aware of?


  • #5
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    1366 x 768 will at least give a near full quality HD and is close to the best available. It *IS* a computer resolution.

    Yes your screen resamples 1920 x 1080i to 1366 x 768 progressive. It is above average quality. It is basically nearly impossible to find a screen that does do 1080i natively, and then it has to resample 720p and SD TV also. A very few scary priced WQXGA projectors exist. Some CRTs exist that do all of 1080i, 720p and 576 PAL natively but only up to 37". LCD, DLP and Plasma unlike CRT are stuck at a fixed resolution. It is a great pity we don't have one fixed 2160 x 1152i HD resolution in Europe instead of two resolutions derived from the old Japanese Analog 1125 line HD derived from US NTSC.


    what is SAD is 480 line 48" plasmas that are "HD ready" that will resample to 800 x 480p from 1920 x 1080i

    Some cheaper sets do the interlace to progressive by using only alternate lines (540), avoiding temporal artifacts and resampling 1920 x 540p to 1366 x 768. That is almost certianly what the 800x 480 Plasma does!

    Ordinary Standard Definition PAL is 720 x 576 at best on 4:3 and still 720 x 576 at 16:9, so a 800 x 480 "HD Ready" screen is really native USA resolution and can't even show standard 4:3 as well as a 100 Euro CRT TV.


    So "HD Ready" logo just means the TV will display 720p or 1080i HD, not how well it displays it :(


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