Thread: Rewind TV coming to Sky
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Old 19-04-2024, 19:07   #11
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Re: Rewind TV coming to Sky
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Do you actually understand the technology at all?

If the channel is showing exclusively material that was distributed on analogue videotape for 625 line PAL colour, then that material has been digitised as 576i, the digital equivalent of analogue standard definition. It is a complete waste of bandwidth to carry that channel on a 1080i (i.e., high definition) stream if nothing that channel broadcasts is available as HD.

Even if the distributors originally sent out film prints rather than videotape, which was not unusual especially for material intended to be sold across markets using different analogue broadcast standards, re-scanning them in HD would be prohibitively expensive for a minor TV channel, even assuming the prints are still in a fit state to be simply scanned without any digital touching up being required to repair scratches etc.
Chris, I was being humorous. Don’t take everything so seriously!
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