Thread: NTL Digital Video Compression
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Old 28-10-2005, 08:47   #8
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Re: NTL Digital Video Compression
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Originally Posted by MatTman
something is wrong with Ntl's compression.. its Just bloody horrible, most of the Sci-fi and national geographic channels are terrible.

the old Analogue service was better than this, even terrestrial TV is of much Higher quality than Ntl's tripe.
Many of the channels you infer above are broadcast at a lower bandwidth than the movie chanels and BBC1, ITV1 etc. You can actually see the pixelation on the E4 logo for example.

Digital is better is not always true, DAB radio uses such low bitrates that it is worse than FM on most channels. Same, but to a lesser extent with DTV as that uses a better compression method.

NTL/TW plans to use a better compression algorithm MPEG4 for broadcasting the next generation of pictures this should also help matters.
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