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TV3 Bitrate Steadily Dropping . Picture Crap !

  • 29-09-2009 09:48PM
    #1
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭


    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


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    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

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    RTE1

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    TG4

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    BBC1 London .

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Comments

  • #2
    dmeehan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭dmeehan


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


  • #3
    RastaRed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭RastaRed


    Sound on tv3 is piss poor as well


  • #4
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,112 ✭✭✭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?


  • #5
    Valentia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    No improvement since :(


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  • #7
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    And no change since

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  • #8
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


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


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