TK Junk Mail
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|  MPEG4 will solve this
As the cable companies upgrade their STBs, the move to MPEG4 compression will resolve these quality problems.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4
MPEG4 is coming:
»When Will Cable Embrace MPEG-4? |
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RadioDoc
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Chicago, IL | "Coming"? Right now the only thing "coming" is the MSO accountants.
Until MPEG4 is implemented, the MSOs should shut their HD marketing yaps and quit selling a product they do not have.
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DaveNJ
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So is CC2, tru2way etc. The cablecos will never invest in mpeg4, unless they have too. Who do they think there fooling selling HD in SD resolution. They could implement SDV but just like tru2way we will never see it. I think Dish/Direc should capitalize on this. |
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GlenQuagmire
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That and they could start moving the analog channels to digital. I would much rather have High Quality HD channels that analog channels any day. |
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RadioDoc
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said by DaveNJ  :I think Dish/Direc should capitalize on this. They are. Both are implementing MPEG4 and expanding transponder space. Why do you think Comcast (for example) is using so much marketing sleight-of-hand trying to sound like they have more HD channels when in reality they are behind and getting behinder.
DirecTV was spanked by their customers for pulling this same crap a couple of years ago. You'd think that the cablecos would know better. Of course, these are the same cablecos whose installers have been known to "install" HD boxes using S-video and call it a day.
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TK Junk Mail
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| reply to DaveNJ
said by DaveNJ :Who do they think there fooling selling HD in SD resolution. SD is packing 8 to 10 channels in 6Mhz. HD has 2 or 3 channels in 6Mhz. So, NO they are not selling HD with SD resolution.
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TK Junk Mail
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| reply to GlenQuagmire
said by GlenQuagmire :That and they could start moving the analog channels to digital. That process is well along the way in most areas. |
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RadioDoc
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Semantics. I can set my 1920x1080 set to display 480i SD at full screen, using every pixel, but in no possible way is it HD. Compressing the snot out of a video stream and calling it HD because it is still 720p is not much different.
Unfortunately, the definition of HD is very slippery and the marketing weasels have taken full advantage of that to sell decidedly inferior product.
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en102
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| Exactly... just because the display resolution = 1920x1080, it shouldn't be called HD, unless
a) The source is HD (i.e. was generated at 1920x1080)
b) The quality of the picture hasn't been degraded to appear as if it was SD.
Sure, I can take a 480i image on my PC and put it to full screen (1600x1200), but the image isn't going to look all that great.
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Navarre, FL | reply to RadioDoc
Is it really that big of a deal with some channels that are stretching the hell out of SD content and calling it HD? I guess I don't see the problem with cablecos doing this if it's done smartly. |
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openbox9
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said by en102 :a) The source is HD (i.e. was generated at 1920x1080) Tell the content providers that. |
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en102
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Valencia, CA | They _could_ push HD lite (don't they all?) at 720p. I have yet to see any provider pushing 1080p
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RadioDoc
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My wife calls it "fat-o-vision". Yes it is a very big deal, and is very much not high definition.
One form of "HD Lite" is the practice of squeezing a 16:9, 1920x1080 picture into a 1280x1080 box, transmitting it at the lower bitrate, and then expanding it at the receiver having lost at least 33% of the horizontal picture information in the process. My HDTV actually has a function for that built-in to record one tuner to a standard def 4:3 recorder while preserving the aspect ratio. Of course the result is not HD, but it isn't supposed to be and we don't use that function.
There is no "smart" way to do it and call it HD. Sorry.
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openbox9
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I was mainly referring to channels such as "TNT HD". Cropped and stretched content is not necessarily HD, but the providers will broadcast it as such because the content distributors say it is. I wouldn't call 720p HD-lite either. I'll take quality 720p over 1080i any time. |
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openbox9
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said by RadioDoc :There is no "smart" way to do it and call it HD. Sorry. You totally missed the point. If content providers such as TNT distribute their "HD" streams at low bitrates, why can't cablecos take advantage of that and throw three streams into a single QAM channel? Limit channels that actually distribute at 19.4 Mbps to two per QAM channel. No blood, no foul. |
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Laidback
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| reply to DaveNJ
said by DaveNJ : I think Dish/Direc should capitalize on this. Currently not legally available in Canada  |
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en102
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Valencia, CA | reply to openbox9
Personally, with all the watered down HD (macro blocking, compression, etc.) I'll take a "good" SD picture for at least another year.
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RadioDoc
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I certainly didn't miss the point. You brought up something irrelevant. If TNT is running SD programming as HD, then it really isn't HD, is it?
You might also want to look up how this is done.
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said by TK Junk Mail :said by DaveNJ :Who do they think there fooling selling HD in SD resolution. SD is packing 8 to 10 channels in 6Mhz. HD has 2 or 3 channels in 6Mhz. So, NO they are not selling HD with SD resolution. 3 channels in 256 QAM MPEG-2 is at best ED. "fat-o-vision" eats up more than its share of precious bits too. |
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openbox9
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| reply to RadioDoc
said by RadioDoc :I certainly didn't miss the point. You brought up something irrelevant. ... You might also want to look up how this is done. It most certainly is relevant and I'm fairly comfortable with how it is done. I'm waiting for you to say why more than two of some "HD" channels can't comfortably fit in a single QAM channel. |
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