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UPC Cable - Cork Analogue Reception issues?

  • 27-08-2008 8:43pm
    #1
    Solair
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    The 4 terrestrial channels carried on UPC Cork's cable system are in very odd quality.

    The picture is clearly not an off-the-air RTE / TV3 / TG4 feed. Rather it's digitally sourced as it's quite a weird resolution and somewhat pixilated.

    Not only that but it's displaying rather weirdly on my TV.

    It's a 4:3 ratio picture, but it is not filling the entire height of the screen and is displaying with black bars on either side but also with black bars on the top and bottom.

    Any ideas why this might be the case?

    The same channels are perfectly good and in proper wide screen on the digital system.

    The least UPC could do is feed a proper terrestrial signal down the cable system.


Comments

  • #2
    pizzahead77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,384 ✭✭✭pizzahead77


    Why would they bother as the analogue service is supposed to be "turned off" in Cork?


  • #3
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Well, I just think there's no point in providing the 4 channels at all if you're not going to at least provide a watchable signal. They're just useless and a waste of bandwidth otherwise.


  • #4
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭Antenna


    pizzahead77 wrote: »
    Why would they bother as the analogue service is supposed to be "turned off" in Cork?

    Well they announced everything analogue bar the 4 national channels was "turned off".

    Cable subscribers without an aerial would still be able to receive these four as an analogue 'backup' in the event of their own digital STB developing a fault.

    Also it allows viewing of one of these channels whilst recording something else from the STB, or vise-versa, without the need for an aerial.

    I can't understand why these 4 analogue channels are apparently being sourced from Chorus Digital rather than from UHF - if the Chorus Digital network breaks down, people have no analogue backup of the national channels on the cable.


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