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Setanta picture quality

  • 17-08-2013 2:05pm
    #1
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭


    After watching BT sport 1 HD (In pub on a 52"), going down to Setanta 1 for the Arsenal/Villa match is painfull. Why is Setanta only available in HD on UPC here? Is it another EPL/Sky restriction I wonder?? There has to be an explanation for this. Its worse than a dodgy Internet stream. Luckily I have Polish TV at home, so watching it now at home on Canal+ but in Polish.


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  • #2
    tomslick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭tomslick


    Setanta 1 is terrible. Was going to watch the match at 3 but the quality was too bad to watch. You'd have to want to watch it to put up with the poor picture.


  • #3
    irishfeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,064 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    snaps wrote: »
    After watching BT sport 1 HD (In pub on a 52"), going down to Setanta 1 for the Arsenal/Villa match is painfull. Why is Setanta only available in HD on UPC here? Is it another EPL/Sky restriction I wonder?? There has to be an explanation for this. Its worse than a dodgy Internet stream. Luckily I have Polish TV at home, so watching it now at home on Canal+ but in Polish.
    It really is terrible, as you say if you had a broadband connection fast enough then you could watch it online with superior quality... that's an awful indictment on Setanta as a subscription broadcaster... as for it not being available on sky, well there is obviously an agreement in place with UPC to keep it exclusive to that platform.


  • #4
    afatbollix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    UPC covered the costs of equipment to make setanta Ireland in HD. They must of signed a exclusivity deal with them for HD only on UPC aswell.


  • #5
    irishfeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,064 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    afatbollix wrote: »
    UPC covered the costs of equipment to make setanta Ireland in HD. They must of signed a exclusivity deal with them for HD only on UPC aswell.
    Its amazing that the HD channel isn't a combination of SI/SS1... the one thing that everyone gets SS for (the Prem Lg) is being broadcast SD while Ligue 1 is on the HD channel ... You would have wonder what they do be playing at :rolleyes:

    Anyone else find the Setanta graphics have by this stage become very much dated, compared with the rest they don't look slick.


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