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Irish channels - bitrate changes?

  • 16-02-2008 11:54am
    #1
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Just noticed that the picture quality on the Irish channels (RTE 1 & 2, TV3 etc) seems to have degraded. It's much more pixelated than before - and these had some of the highest bitrates on Sky.

    Anybody else notice the same? Or am I going mad...? :)

    JD.


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  • #2
    fat-tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭fat-tony


    I'll join your low bitrate club on the basis that, I too, had noticed a disimprovement in picture quality on RTE recently. The rugby last weekend, was a prime example - seemed to be a lot of compression artefacts around the players in the long shots. I have no means of measuring the bitrate, though, so maybe Watty or Zaphod could check?


  • #3
    Zaphod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Zaphod


    satcodx provides bitrate readings for each channel over several months.
    http://www.satcodx2.com/0282/eng/


  • #4
    Rippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭Rippy


    Nice link Zaphod. RTE looks reasonable enough. Did you see one of the Sentanta channels at only 1.38 mbps??:eek:


  • #5
    fat-tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭fat-tony


    Thanks for that Zaphod. I see when you click on the transponder bit rate, you get a history over the past few months shown in a new window. RTE 1 is showing a lot of variability and a trend to lower bit rates over the past few weeks, though.


  • #6
    christo82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭christo82


    Film Four is also way down considering it's a film channel. something like 2.33 average or less.


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  • #7
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Found another web site showing bit rate trends over 6 months. The first graph shows how TV3 has dropped a huge amount since Decemeber...

    TV3 - http://www.linowsat.co.uk/0282/history/2043/9605.html
    RTE 1 - http://www.linowsat.co.uk/0282/history/2043/9601.html
    RTE 2 - http://www.linowsat.co.uk/0282/history/2043/9602.html


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