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Old 10-03-2004, 09:34   #1
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Lower bitrate on some channels?

Not sure if it's just me, my telly or a genuine change, but I seem to have noticed on a couple of channels (eg bid-up.tv) that the quality of the image has decreased.
It appears as if the data's more compressed, not to the point where there is obvious artifacting but just a little less sharp.
Does anyone know if this is the case?
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Re: Lower bitrate on some channels?

My E4 is particularly bad very pixelly looking all the time
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Old 10-03-2004, 11:26   #3
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Not sure if it's just me, my telly or a genuine change, but I seem to have noticed on a couple of channels (eg bid-up.tv) that the quality of the image has decreased.
It appears as if the data's more compressed, not to the point where there is obvious artifacting but just a little less sharp.
Does anyone know if this is the case?
Can you give some more examples Alan?
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Re: Lower bitrate on some channels?

Well, also noticed it on price-drop as well, as those two partcular channels have lots of on screen graphics and I'd always noticed how sharp they looked in the past. It's a little difficult to compare on some of the other channels.
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Re: Lower bitrate on some channels?

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My E4 is particularly bad very pixelly looking all the time
E4 is on half horizontal lines (that right?) on all platforms. C4 want to save bandwidth, I guess.
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Re: Lower bitrate on some channels?

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E4 is on half horizontal lines (that right?) on all platforms. C4 want to save bandwidth, I guess.
I think it's actually 3/4s horizontal resolution, but there was/is an issue with the Langley software which causes the vertical resolution to decrease too, giving a very bad picture overall.
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Re: Lower bitrate on some channels?

I see this all the time. Especially when the pictures are changing rapidly. Sport for example.
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