TV3 Bitrate Steadily Dropping . Picture Crap !

Sponge Bob

Looks Like TV3 have started a new round of cutbacks to their satellite bandwidth. The lack of peaks indicates that no allowances are made for the content .

Whether we are looking at Vincent Browne muttering or a super slow mo Champions Leage replay we get the same bitrate no matter what

Evey other channel adapts to the content . Not TV3 where the laws of physics are evidently different .

Linowsat constantly monitors transmission bitrate which = picture quality . Here are all the Astra 28e channels .

http://www.linowsat.de/0282/all/0282.shtml




The links are broken to 6 month charts elsewhere so do note the lack of smoothing ...m'kay !!!!

TV3 10 day . Nailed at 3.1mbits




RTE1



TG4



BBC1 London .

dmeehan

noticed the lack of quality in the picture whilst watching the champions league coverage last night - time to resub to sky sports hd

RastaRed

Sound on tv3 is piss poor as well

JDxtra

Yes, noticed that myself as well. It seems unusual to have a fixed bandwidth – could it be a mistake on the website? But you can notice the quality is shocking bad when there’s a lot of action on screen.

TV3 seem technically incompetent (just look at how 3e has been broadcast with the wrong screen ratio for nearly a year). They don’t respond to queries of this nature, so it’s pointless contacting them.

Don’t RTE do the uplink for TV3?

Valentia

The Ipswich-Newcastle game on BBC the other night was like watching marshmallows rolling up and down the field. A lot of stations seem to be getting softer, including the HD ones.

Sponge Bob

No improvement since

Sponge Bob

And no change since

Mossy Monk

If I watched TV3 then I would stop with that kind of nonsense going on