Originally Posted by virginruinedntl (Post 34962218)

Not true at all, mpeg2 gives you blocks in scenes with lots of objects on the screen like footballers, scenes with lots of animals etc. You should read up about mpeg4. The size could obviously be reduced yes, but the quality could also be improved, BBCHD didn't look great at 17.8mbps MPEG2, now virgin have reduced it to 16.5mbps MPEG2 and its really looking poor now, it needs to be around 20mbps but with mpeg4 this could be reduced alot and still give us higher quality than we currently have.

You could also increase the quality and reduce the size of the SD channels which are blocky as HELL, you could also give us 720x576i for each channel with the bandwidth saved instead of giving us crappy 544x576i for some channels.

As far as i'm aware virgin have given customers boxes with MPEG2+MPEG4 support for the past few years, there can't be that many that would require a new mpeg4 supporting box, this cost of upgrading boxes would be ofset by the reduced bandwidth costs and viewers would have a much better picture.

Originally Posted by broadbandking (Post 34962251)

I must be blind or something my picture quality is brilliant on our samsung HDTV, I don't understand how people can go on about the quality seems fine to me.

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 34962274)

ITV1 HD on its way to Virgin Media?

http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com...gin-media.html

Originally Posted by zantarous (Post 34962281)

Am I missing something, that link to your blog MB seems to end mid sentence, or is the posting supposed to say "Nothing has been announced yet?"

Originally Posted by virginruinedntl (Post 34962278)

The virgin employee said it would be in time for the olympics a few pages back.

Originally Posted by EBD3000 (Post 34962284)

Unless ITV HD is next weeks annoucement (so VM employees have been told) I don't know how much faith we can put in that quote.

Originally Posted by ncfc1902 (Post 34962297)

The Olympics on ITV :confused:

Originally Posted by virginruinedntl (Post 34962263)

Sky use 16-18mbps mpeg4 for Sky Sport HD, thats what quality really looks like!

Originally Posted by virginruinedntl (Post 34962205)

I sent this message to virgin on their twitter:

"@virginmedia When will Virgin be moving to MPEG4 as we are using mpeg2 which doesn't give great quality and costs you lots in Bandwidth?"

their response:

"There's no information I can give you at the moment but we appreciate the feedback :) ST"

I'm not sure what ST means? maybe sincere thanks??