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Old 15-04-2013, 11:45   #517
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Strange - most reasonable TVs upscale SD.

It's not quite as good as HD, but not crap (imho).
The problem is more the low bitrates than the actual resolution.

Doesn't help too with channels like Viva where they take old 4:3 NTSC programmes, convert them into PAL, blow up the picture to somewhere in the middle of 4:3 and 16:11 (losing the top and bottom) and then bung them out on a really low bitrate channel. Impossible to watch on a big screen telly with the bad colour, blurred picture and terrible pixellation.
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