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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Then I don't understand the point of the comment. The thread isn't about the current SD offering from NTL, so the current generation of Set Top Boxes are not relevant to the question.
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well, you pulled off my sub-comment about getting DVB-C(2) etc.
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iv not seen anything much on DVB-C2, DVB-T2 or DVB-H2 for that matter, does anything exist yet for them?.
not that its ever likely that NTL will ever let you rent or buy a DVB-C(2) card to put your payed for smart card into and just take the .ts content directly to your monitor or HD ready display and hence get a far better quality picture without the anologue conversion that the SD STB does today.
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i was just pointing out that if you could have direct access to the .ts stream into your PC, then infact if you did have a HD ready PC video card and HDTV, then you could have better quality pictures today , as your PC would then be able to pass the digital .ts feed directly to the HDTV without the conversion that the current ntl SD STB does.
watching the DVB-T .ts feed directly on my PC monitor right now is FAR better quality than the NTL STB through the SD TV, even with the scart RGB setting turned on.
the NTL feed to the STB is the same spec .ts feed my DVB-T is receaving, but by the time its gone through all the conversions at both ends its a lot werse , its all relative, sure, but it comes down to people wanting a better quality picture.
if you want to advocate the old mpeg2 .ts 'TV drive' as the general option, great, i prefer to advocate UK/EU inovation and perhaps we might get it one day (soon?).
i suspect that with all these US people inside ntl upper managment, we will continue to have to take all the old mpeg2 idea's and kit that have proven ok in times past for those american firms profits, rather than get real inovation that just about all the EU will be using for a very long time to come.
its all pritty clear really, DVB is the standard all the UK should be using, along with wireless networking tech, and AVC content, not kitting up today with the old junk just to milk the last bits of profit out of it, the uk used to be full of inovators, were are they now, the TV drive isnt inovating, its junk milking the last profits out of the UK end users, do you not agree ?.