Sky News being added to Saorview

I have been comparing Sky News on Saorview with same channel on Freeview and PQ looks very similar. I have Sky News on satellite but it is HD not SD so can't really compare.

Here's another comparison. Same screengrab, top one from Saorview bottom from FTA satellite. Same equipment used in both. The resolution is also the same.

The text and logo on the Saorview version has jagged edges and is clearly darker. There is definitely some problem with encoding or downscaling the image for Saorview.

Saorview:

FTA satellite:

Has anyone reported it to 2RN? Might be something they could look into.

I have contacted Saorview and 2RN. Suggest others do the same while it's a fresh issue - otherwise we could be looking at this for years!

They made a resolution change this morning and could have missed something I suppose.

I'm not near a TV now but it sounds like 50Hz mains hum. The very slight difference between 50Hz of the ESB electrical supply and the 50Hz refresh of the picture causes it to slowly drift up or down. It could be an issue with your own TV, have you seen it on another TV?

BTW unrelated question - how much of a delay is there going from FTA satellite to Saorview for Sky News Ireland?

Sat is about 2.5 seconds ahead.

Bit of a chunk of the picture is also cut off at the top

The picture looks as if it's being put through some unnecessary extra layer of processing with the resulting effect of line-shifting. Like a photocopy of a photocopy.

I can get a better picture from my 20-year old satellite receiver.

Comparing to what I see on youtube it seems to be zoomed in a little, so there's an 'inch' or 2 missing around the circumference.

Picture quality is abysmal. It is the worst on all of Saorview and that is some achievement.

Still same when I checked earlier. It could be much better, a simple tweak is all that's needed. Very annoying to watch it on a larger screen.

I wonder if their systems are all setup for SD channels at the lower resolution - and this higher resolution has messed something up.

I've looked at it again, this might sound a contradiction in terms, but the picture quality, leaving out the text, is actually not bad, definitely better than Virgin channels. However, text and scrolling ticker bars are a big part of a news channel. Of course full HD is the answer, but Sky will keep HD for subscribers and Virgin are just cheap skates who won't pay up for HD, I am surprised though at TG4, being state subsidised and part funded by RTE, that they aren't in HD on Saorview.

Has anyone heard back from 2RN/Saorview?

Black / Green screen here on channel 23 Sky News .. not a great start, problems after 3 days broadcasting on Saorview ..

Working fine here

Looks just as bad to me

They've fixed the picture size tho, don't know when they did that, so its not cut off at the top etc

In my experience, the likes of 2rn/Saorview/RTE tend not to reply to queries from the general public.

They have an ROI feed already that they're using (AFAIK) - this would be the feed used on sky in Ireland already...

Great to a have a news channel on in the morning, even if it is sky; it's very annoying that both France 24 and Euronews, replaced by Infomercials and radio one, bought go off the air on saorview just as most people would be waking up.