NTL Poor Picture Quality

djfattony2000

So I have just arrived home from a year away to find the parents have switched from sky digital to NTL digital. The first thing I noticed (aside from the fiddley interface) is that the picture quality is crap, especaily on fast moving images such as football games. The images are very distorted/blurred, not sharpe at all.
Is this common for NTL, or is there any way to fix this?

gerryo

djfattony2000 wrote:

So I have just arrived home from a year away to find the parents have switched from sky digital to NTL digital.

I think it's more usual to go the other way, maybe they wanted C4 or none of the sky packages suited.

djfattony2000 wrote:

The first thing I noticed (aside from the fiddley interface) is that the picture quality is crap, especaily on fast moving images such as football games. The images are very distorted/blurred, not sharpe at all.Is this common for NTL, or is there any way to fix this?

I've never had sky, never compared it side by side to MMDS, but I would assume sky transmits a better picture (more bw + higher res) than NTL.

Oddly, I think NTL's quality has improved lately, I was watching a movie last night & I perceived the picture quality as being better than usual. I think it might depend on the channel you are watching, as some of the lightweight channels (city channel & C6) seem to have worse quality than say BBC or C4.

Having said that, it does have problems with fast moving images & every so often you get parts of the screen breaking down.

I think they might be able to tweak/fine tune it, as they seem to be doing upgrades every few weeks, but (IMHO) it may never be as good as sky.

djfattony2000

To be honest I think it was a cost thing really, thats why they switched.

It looks like the frame rate isnt the same same as sky or something, again the pictures are very jerky.:(