Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

Maybe, but in those days the PQ was excellent - never any pixelation unlike these days.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

… and I thought pixelation has nothing to do with compression.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

bitrate is a pointless metric unless comparing the exact same encoder and settings.

but people love it.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

You'd be right. You've probably got a signal fault, Raider.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

You may be correct, it must be a coincidence that since it has been more compressed the PQ has got worse and has more pixelation, particularly on faster motion sports.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

Anyone who watched the old UEFA Cup on Freeview ITV4 would know ;)

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

Hi all,

New to the forum!

Was having a search around the web for some answer regarding sky sports UHD coming to our screens but found nothing at all! With the season just a few days no listings or ads from VM looks like it could be another season without UHD!

Sure looks that way, very disappointing :-(

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

Virgin Media aren’t the best at promoting things before launch and more often or not things just appear.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

Here’s hoping! Would love to See it go live this weekend!

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

While not holding my breath either channels have literally appeared on the morning of the press release.

That said, some on Internet forums get over excited and read press releases as what they want them to say rather than what they actually say, and the start of the football season is an arbitrary date that gets pulled out where things might happen when they also might not.

And welcome to the forum.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

Virgin led us to believe that Sky Sports UHD was going to launch at the start of last season.
Anybody else see the on screen banner advertising Liverpool v Leedsin UHD last year? It appeared on the Thursday and it was pulled the very next day.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

I got the impression Sky shelved their greater UHD plans, including their own platform, because of Covid19, preferring to wait for greater certainty e.g. in the sporting calendar.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

Why would Virgin not lead you to believe UHD football would be coming shortly.

If they were to tell you it wasn't coming at all this season, I suspect a number of people would switch to Sky.

Re: UHD on Virgin Media
 

Both VM and Sky issued press releases confirming it.